Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-24
Pending Bills Seek Added
$1,735,o0o,0 900, With But
S50,o00,000 Available,
Conference Reveals.
PROGRAM WOULD IMPLY
40 PER CENT TAX RAISE
House and Senate Leaders Pledge
Themselves to Strict Economy,
but Measures to Help Care for
Veterans snd Widows Will Not
Be Delayed.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Hoover set the brakes
on appropriations b eyond the
budget estimates today.
At a White House breakfast
conference with Republican lead
ers of both houses, attended also
by Secretary Mellon, Undersecre-
tary of the Treasury Ogden Mills
and Director Roop of the Budget
Bureau, he let, it be known that
after the budget expenditures had
been cared forS about $4,000, 600
would be available for further ap-
preparations.
Bills pending in the Senate and
House. however! call for a huge
additional expenditure, totaling
$1,7S5, 100000.
Contrary Course Would Raise Tax.
The House and Senate leaders were
impressed with the statement of the
President and of tile Treasury officials,
and left the Whitel House fully cogni-
zant, they said, with the need of stick
ing TO the budget. Any other course
necessarily will mean an increase in
taxes next year. The Congress has
provided, at the Recommendation of the
President and Secretary Mellon, for a
S160 600 900 reduction in the Federal
income taxes to be paid during the
present calendar year on incomes de-
rived in 1929.
1t was explained, however, that the
demand now made by the President for
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with the appropriations bill now under
way for the Government, following the
budget estimates Further, it was re-
ported, that there is no disposition to
halt measures which looked to the needs
of veterans of all wars and their
widows.
Statement Reveals Opinion.
After the conference at the White
House, a statement was issued by Walter
Newton, one of the Presidents secre-
taries, dealing with the subject of the
discussions. Tt follows:
"The director of the budget, under
instructions of the President has pre-
pared survey of the various projects
which have been presented TO Congress
and the administration, which will in
volve additional expenditures beyond
the present authorization and beyond
the present budget.
These demands are being made upon
Congress and the administration from
different sections of the country and
from different interested groups The
amounts below are summary of these
projects and are given in the amount
of additional expenditure that would be
imposed upon the Federal budget dur
ing the first year of their operation.
Many Would Increase Yearly.
"Tnese are not the totals projected
which are very much larger, but simply
the annual addition to the budget
Many of the items would be permanent
and increasing annually:
Public roads, $3.50, 600 000
Rivers and harbors, $35 600 00O
Compensation to property owners for
rights of way in flood control, 500 ,000,-
O0O
Loans to levee districts, 500, 900 900.
Protection to forests, S10,000.000.
"rTHeication of pests, 100000.
Expansion of agricultural services,
$40 100000.
scientific research, $5ooOOOO.
Development of Columbia River,
$45 100000.
Reclamation service, 500. 600, 900.
National parks and memorials, $780,
100000.
Indian service. $4,000 900.
NAVAL construction, $4,000, 900.
military aviation, SIS 900 000
Increased Army and Navy pay, $780,
oO0. 900
'Army-Navy hospitals, barracks and
costs, $15,000,000.
Employment services IS ,000, 900.
Disaster relief, $l5,000,0o0.
Increase in Spanish War veterans
service, $45, 000, 900.
Increase in Civil War veterans serv-
ice, $40 1000 900.
Increase in World War veterans
service, $500, 100000.
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