Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-24

Increased civil service pensions, $2o,-
900 900.
increase in civil service pay. $780,
900 900.
Education, 500, 0oO, 900.
Total 81 ,735, 0o0, 900.
Income liz About 4 Billions.
''The present Federal income is APP
proXimately $4,000 900 600 per annum
and such a program would imply an in
crease in taxes of 40 per cent.
'In addition to the above list, other
projects are being urged, but are not
regarded as imminent. which would
impose a further expenditure of fully
81 500, 100000 per annum."
The merits Of the various proposed
additional appropriations and authori-
cations were not gone into at the con-
ference today, It was explained. The
President desired merely to call the
attention of the congressional leaders
and the chairmen of committees at
tending the breakfast to the fiscal con-
dition Of the Treasury.
Touch on Tariff Bill.
The situation regarding the tariff bill,
which was considered at White House
breakfast given by the President to the
Senate and House leaders, was taken
UP today only incidentally, it was said.
Those attending the breakfast were:
Senator Watson of Indiana, the Senate
Republican leader; Chairman McNary
of the Senate agriculture committee,
Chairman Jones of the Senate appro-
priations committee: Chairman Smoot
of the Senate finance committee, Rep
resentative TilSon Of Connecticut, the
House Republican leader; Chairman
Smell of the House rules committee,
Chairman Hawley of the House ways
and means committee, Secretary Mel
lon of the Treasury, UnderSecretary
Mills of the Treasury and Director
Roop Of the Budget Bureau.
Speaker Iongworth and Representa-
tive VIII Wood, chairman Of the House
appropriations committee, were invited
to attend the breakfast today, but were
out of town and unable to be present.
Speaker Longworth, however, was a
guest of the President at luncheon to-
day, having returned to Washington
too late to attend the breakfast. 1t
Is understood that the President went
over much the same ground with the
Speaker as with the other Republican
leaders this morning.
Tariff Jam Hats Passage.
The House has already passed and
sent to the Senate seven appropriation
bills during the present session of
Congress. It has three more Of the
annual supply bills to pass and prob
ably another deficiency bill. Owing to
the legislative jam over the tariff bill,
not one of these bills has been taken
I'D for consideration in the Senate yet.
The Presidents warning regarding
the Governments finances was in eff
feet q warning to the Senate not to
add to the total of the appropriation
1,xyf he ND IN l1o
House to keep the appropriation bills
still to come down to the budget limit.
OF the seven appropriation bills now
waiting action in the Senate, four are
on the Senate calendar, having been
reported favorably from the appropria-
tons committee. They are the Agri-
culture, Treasury and Post Office, State,
Justice, Commerce and Labor and first
deficiency bills. The Interior Depart
ment bill, the first to be sent to the
Senate by the House, is still awaiting
consideration in committee because SEN
ator Smoot, who is handling the tariff
bill on the floor of the Senate, is chair
man of the subcommittee Of the appro-
priations committee in charge Of that
bill He has been unable to give the
time necessary to its consideration In
Tariff Prospects Brighter.
The War Department bill, also passed
by the House, is awaiting the return
of Senator David A. Reed, chairman of
the military affairs committee, from
the London Naval Conference, where
he Is serving as member of the Amert-
can delegation. The seventh bill sent
to the Senate by the House, the first
deficiency bill, has just been received
and is before the appropriations COM
mittee.
The prospects for early action on the
tariff bill have frightened in the last
few days, it is said, and the President
was so informed today. He has been
apprehensiye that the appropriation
bills might be so delayed as to make
it embarrassing for the Government
The expectations are, however, that
all the bills will be put through in time
TO take care OF the Governments needs.
TiIsOn Gives Opinion.
Representative Tilson, following the
White House conference, said that
every appropriation proposed would be
carefully scanned in the House and that
economy in Government appropriation
would be the rule in the House Senator
Watson said. too, that every effort
would be made to keep appropriations
down in the Senate. Senator Smoot
declared that If strict observance were
not given to the budget estimates and
appropriations limited, it would be
necessary to increase taxes next year to
meet a deficit.
All expressed the opinion that the
White House conference would have a
good effect and call the attention Of
Congress and the country to the need
for economy.
The budget estimate sent to the Con-
gress by the President when the session
opened last December called for a total
appropriation of 1880 445 ,231. This
Is decrease of $145, 696,419 compared
with appropriations for the current rs
cal year.
More recently, several additional esti-