Evening star., 1932-04-04
Representatives of President
Would Work With Agents
Selected by Two Houses
of Congress.
SURPRISE MESSAGE ASKS
SPEED ON LEGISLATION
Further Drastic Retrenehment
Held Necessary to Balance
Books-Wants Law Changed to
Relieve Department of Functions
Not Essential Now.
BY ] Russell YOUNG.

In a surprise message TO the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives today, President Hoover
called for the appointment of
representatives delegated by the
two Houses to work with repre-
sentatives to be selected by him
to frame complete national pro-
gram of economy and to recon-
mend the legislation necessary to
make it possible and effective.
The President again insisted
in this message that reduction of
governmental expenditures is es-
sential if the budget is to be bal
anced, and again declared that
properly and effectively to reduce
expenses the present law should
be amended so as to relieve de-
partmentS and independent @es-
tablishmentS of some of their ex-
isting functions which are not
absolutely essential for the pres
ent.
would Speed B1ilS.
Such course as recommended by
him in his message today, President
Hoover is confident, would expedite
rather than delay the passage of ap-
preparations bills. He is also convinced
that only by such unified, non-partisan
effort can this problem of reducing ex-
penses be attained in the public interest.
In urging a thorough going renova-
ton OF the laws to bring about a real
national economy program, Mr.. Hoover
called attention to the fact that the
laws now place unnecessary obligations
on the departments and independent
establishments which activities could
very well be dispensed with at this time.
He is satisfied that by having this work
undertaken in definite, non-partisan
way by representatives of Congress and
the Executive, the desired results could
be readily achieved.
Attention was called by the Executive
to the fact that the Senate and the
House Appropriation Committees have
given consideration to this question of
reducing expenses and that q special
Economy Committee was recently ap-
pointed by the House, and that the
Committee on Expenditures in the Ex-
ecutive Departments of the House have
been engaged upon this problem.
Wants Unity Of Efforts.
Therefore, in his opinion, the Presi-
dent is satisfied that instead of having
these different agencies of the Congress
operating independently on the prob
lem, better and quicker results could
be obtained by having it done by one
representative group, such as recon-
mended by him. He Is satisfied the
seriousness of the situation absolutely
necessitates better organized unity of
effort
Mr.. Hoover is of the opinion that
more than 5000, 100000, the amount es-
timated by the House when it passed q
revenue bill recently as necessary in
governmental expenditures to balance
the budget, will be needed. In his opin-
ion, there must be still more drastic
economies because the 5000, ,000, 900 saw
ing will not be sufficient.
The text of the Presidents message
follows:
ITO the Senate and House of Repre-
SentativeS-
Il have in various messages to the
Congress over the past three years re-
ferred to the necessity of organized ef-
fort to effect far-reaching reduction Of
governmental expenditures.
ITO balance the budget for the year
beginning July l, next, the revenue bill
passed by the House of Representatives
on April l necessitates that there shall
be a further reduction of expenditures
for the next year of about $200,000,000
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