The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-07
PARTISAN DISPUTE
GREETS HOOVER APPEALS
FOR BALANCING BUDGET
However, Indications Are
That Larger Savings Than
Asked viii Be Made.
URGES AGAINST DELAY
Credit of u. S. Is Being
Impaired, President Says;
LaSheS Lobbyists.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, May T.
While the country reacted
quickly to President Hoover's
two appeals for a balanced
budget, the house today
struggled to cut army appro-
priations and a senate COM
mittee made a final draft Of
its billion-dollar tax bill.
Reduction OF appropriations
temporarily was interrupted Friday
by bitter partisan debate in The
house on the Hoover statements,
and in the senate by passage of the
Hale bill authorizing a billion dol
lars worth of new naval vessels.
Actual appropriation Of this bill in
dollars, however, is not probable
this session.
The regular war department bill,
under debate by the house today,
will be cut $50 ,098 below 1881
expenditures, If recommendations
of the appropriations committee
are accepted
Advocates of drastic army and
navy cuts maintain that the Presi-
dents attack Friday on Hobbies,
applies to this bill as well as others.
Appropriations Trimmed
The President, in describing the
present economy issue. said:
se ~
tween the President and congress.
or its members. It is an issue
against delays and destructive leg
islation which impair the credit Of
the United States.
1T also is an issue between the
locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt
the halls of congress, seeking sell
fish privilege for special groups
and sections of the country, mis-
leading members as to the real
views of the people by showers Of
propaganda"
When the house completes con-
sideration of the war department
bill it will have trimmed Sl57, 100000
from the budget estimates for the
government departments.
The senate's additional 10 per
cent cuts accomplished and in pros
pect account for another S305, 000000
reduction. and these, together with
savings Of approximately $50 100000
in the house economy bill total more
than twice the reduction Treasury
Secretary Mills says is necessary to
balance the budget.
Party Disputes Flame
Although party disputes famed
furiously Friday as a result Of the
Presidents message, there is every
prospect that the economy pro-
gram of congress will proceed as be-
fore, and will result in savings larg-
er than Hoover asked.
Though the house sent the state
justice commerce- labor bill to con-
ference, Friday, instead OF accepting
it as it did the interior bill, Speak
or John Garner announced there
was no intention of increasing the
amount
Although the senate continued to
receive communications from the
executive departments opposing
various economies, it has shown no
sign so far of altering its edict for
additional 10 per cent cuts.
The senate probably will vote
again on this policy Monday wnen
it considers a resolution by Senator
Tasker r. Oddie CRep., New, ask
ing that treasury and postofice de-
partments be exempt from the
S70,000,000 saving the senate has
ordered in their funds.
The partisan debate in the house
began when Chairman Joseph w.
Byrns Of the house appropriations
committee accused President Hoover
Of injecting politics into the fiscal
problem so far considered with
little disagreement between the two
parties as to means of achieving
their common end Of balancing
the budget.
Saving With Difficulty
He said every reduction made in
annual appropriation bills by his
committee, below budget estimates,
had been fought bitterly by mem
bers Of the Presidents cabinet and
that the amount saved had been
saved only with greatest difficulty.
Representative Robert q. Sim
mons rep, NebJ and Representa-
tive Earl G. Kitchener CRep., Mich.)
on the other side Of the aisle, Bit
terly sssailed Democrats for refus-
ing TO give President Hoover unre-
stricted, blanket authority TO reor-
ganize departments and bureaus Of
government as he sees fit.
In spite OF the Presidents plea
for restored confidence in the gov
eminent as an essential Of economic
recovery, Simmons charged that
savings made so far were to a large
extent not actual savings and that
deficiency bills would be brought in
at the end Of the fiscal year. greatly
increasing the total expenditure for
1898.
Meanwhile, Senator Kenneth Nc
Kellar Dem, Tenn was charging
that President Hoover erred when
he told congress he reduced expen-
ditures BY 1869 900 900. Emergency
and other measures indorsed by the
administration have brought the
total budget for 1893 to $685.. 600 600
Mcclellan charged, a total 1913 500
600 greater than that for the current