Evening star., 1932-04-08
MORE BUDGET CUT.
AMMUNITION GIVEN
HOOVER BY CABINET
President Arms Himself TO.
Meeting Tomorrow With
House Group.
STATE, JUSTICE, LABOR
REDUCTIONS APPROVED
Total for Dry Enforcement Pared
to $1o,OOO,oOO by Senate
Committee.

The drive for slashes in Government
expenditures gained additional momen-
tum today at the White House and
Capitol.
President Hoover, at the cabinet
meeting, armed himself with new facts
on cutting expenses in preparation for
the meeting tomorrow with the Special
House Economy Committee.
At the same time a Senate Appro-
priations Subcommittee approved a 10
per cent reduction In the s124,Ooo 600
supply bill for the State, Justice. Com
merce and Labor Departments next
year. 1t included 81 900 900 cut in
the prohibition enforcement fund, re-
ducing the total to $lO.OOO,OOO.
Special Rule Necessary.
Chairman McDufie of the Economy
Committee repeated again today that
the salary reduction bill will be brought
into the House next week. He explained
that this bill probably will provide for
$1,000 exemption fer all employees, with
an ii per cent on all salaries in excess
OF that amount. In order that this
salary reduction bill may be made a
rlder on the legislative appropriation
Dill as the Economy Committee has
planned, it will be necessary TO seek a
special rule, Chairman McDuffie pointed
out today.
In addition to presenting their own
program Tor reduction, members of the
House committee will invite the Presi-
dent to present any recommendation
ne sees mt and to have his own rep
resentat1ves sit in with the Economy
Committee during It's hearings and
conferences in executive sessions.
Chairman McDuffie also emphasized
today that 1t is too late to attempt
any general and systematic reorgaii-
zation Of the entire Government es-
tablishment. pointing out that previous
administrations and Congresses have
devoted years to sucn a purpose with
little success.
Opposition Stiffened.
Mr.. McDuffie said that the best the
Economy Committee can hope to do is
to find various commissions, bureaus
and agencies of the Government In
which savings can be effected in order
to reduce the expenditures under 1893
appropriations.
In anticipation of the salary slashing
bill to be reported next week, Chairman
Connery Of the House Committee on
Labor and a group of labor leaders rep
resenting all the States in the Union
made renewed efforts today to
reduction measure.
1t was disclosed today that during ex-
ecutive conferences on the salary re-
duction measure there was general OPP
position to percentage reductions In
excess of 10 or IL per cent even on SAL
aries in the higher brackets, because
the members realized that such reduce
tions would bear heavily upon them
selves
1t was quite generally admitted among
members of the House today that un-
less special rule can be secured to
make the salary-cut bill in order on
the legislative appropriation bill,
chances for salary slashing are slight.
Sent Back to Committee.
Senator Jones, Republican, of WASH
ington, author OF the five and ten"
enforcement law, is chairman of the
full Appropriations Committee and of
the subcommittee which made the cut
in the department supply bill. 1t
was one of two the Senate sent back
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10 per cent from the total as passed by
the House.
The 10 per cent reduction was APP
piled rather generally down the line,
with some exceptions, which we're made
up by large cuts in few cases.
Salaries Of judges. which are fixed by
law. and appropriations for prisons
were excepted.
The detailed figures on the subcom-
mittee's action will not be made public
until passed on tomorrow by the full
committee.
The cut in the prohibition fund came
as somewhat of a surprise, as opposition
10 it had been expressed on the Senate
floor by those who sponsored the econ
omy move.
Dry Cut to Be Fought.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, Ten
nessee, author of the motion to send
the bill back to committee, announced
he would oppose reductions in the fund
for enforcement of the dry laws.
The Senate rejected motion to elm
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