The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-09-08
HOOVER BOUND TO
CUT EXPENSES
President Insists on Drastic
Reduction in the Federal
Budget
HEARINGS HAVE BEGUN
Chief Executive Will Plead
With Congress to Exercise
Rigid Economy

Washington, Sept. Faced with
financial problems almost as seri-
GUS as a year ago, the administra-
ton has launched a new economy
program aimed at drastic reduc-
tons in government expenditures
with the objective of presenting a
budget of rock bottom level to the
next session of congress.
Vested by President Hoover with
power to recommend cuts to the
limit of efficient administration of
the governments necessary bust
ness, J. Clawson Roop, director of
the budget, and r. o. Kloeber, as
sistant director, have opened
duplicate executive hearings into
the budget requests of the depart
mentS.
Preceding the opening of the
hearing the President sent word to
the various departments urging the
imperative necessity of economy.
The forwarding of the economy pro-
gram had been discussed in cabinet
sessions previously and the general
purpose established Of formulating
budget whose sum would be we'll
below the total of $3,942 ,OOO, 900 sub
mitted to congress last December.
Ready to step personally into
action to maintain a downward
trend of expenditure estimates, the
President also has re-emphasized TO
his budget bureau his willingness
to WELD the pruning knife when
the departments have completed
the exposition of their fiscal needs
Last year Mr.. Hoover cut more
than $350,000,O00 from the total es-
Inmates of the departmental chiefs
before the budget went to the capt.
toll.
The first government agencies to
come under the fire of the economy
campaign were the agricultural and
interior departments. The COM
merce departments and various in
dependent establishments followed.
Representatives on the interior de-
partment will come back for sub
sequent hearings and other depart
ments will be almost as much IN
volved in what will be the budget
bureaus most exhaustive investiga-
ton.
The hearings, privately con-
Quoted, will be continued until the
end of October. The President will
be consulted and if further pres
sure for economy is required, the
White House will exercise II.
Colonel Roop would not disclose
today whether he hopes to make a
percentage cut in the estimates be-
low that of last year or what total
he would like to have the budget
fall within.
It is pointed out that the admin
istration opposed the fiat 10 per
cent cuts which the senate sought
to impose on appropriation bills at
the last session. Cabinet officers,
supported by the President, assert
ed the rough usage of their esti-
mates tended to wreck the ade-
quate functioning of necessary bus
mess in some instances.
The stress on lowering the execu-
tive budget total, according to the
administration view, is for the sake
not only of making the economies
involved in the department esti-
mates, but of setting sound
foundation for another appeal to
congress to make the even greater
economies which would result from
changes in the statutory expend-
itures.
Although administration officials
are unwilling to make public esti-
mates now of the total economies
which they expect to obtain, ap-
peals from business and industrial
sources, to which official need has
been given, call for 100000, 900
curtailment in federal expenses be-
low those of this fiscal year.