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

WASHING AON, May t-Wnlle
the country reacted quickly to Pres
ident Hoovers two appeals for a
balanced budget, the house today
struggled to cut army appropria-
tons and a senate committee made
r final draft Of its billion dollar tax
bill.
Reduction OF appropriations
temporarily was interrupted Friday
by a bitter partisan debate in The
house on the Hoover statements,
and in the senate by passage Of the
Hale bill authorizing billion dol
lars worth OF new naval vessels.
Actual appropriation of this bill in
dollars, however, Is not probable
ahis session.
The attack on Hoover in the
house broke out with renewed force
Today when Representative William
, Bankhead Dem, Ala said there
Is mo authority in the Constitution
sor the President to constitute him.
self a common scold."
The regular war department bill,
under debate by the house today,
Will be cut 0849 .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 we'll as others
Appropriations Trimmed
The President. in describing the
present economy issue. said:
This is not a controversy be-
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 S157 100000
from the budget estimates for the
government departments.
The senate's additional 10 per
cent cuts accomplished and in pros
poet account for another S305.0000n0
reduction. and these, together with
savings of approximately S30,000,000
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
Suriously Friday as 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-
ar than Hoover asked.
Though the house sent the state
Justice commerce-labor bill to con-
ference, Friday, instead of accepting
81 as it did the interior bill. Speak
Pr 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 when
il considers a resolution by Senator
Tasker r. Oddie (Rep.. New, ask
ing that treasury and poStoffice de-
partments be exempt from the
s70OO0000 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 men,
bers Of the Presidents cabinet, and
that the amount saved had been
saved only with greatest difficulty
Representative Robert G. SIM
mons CRep, NebJ and Representa-
tive Earl c. Kitchener (Rep., Mich)
on the other side of the aisle, bit
terly assailed Democrats for refuS-
ing to give President Hoover unre-
stricted. blanket authority to reor-
ganize departments and bureaus OF
government as he sees Mt.
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 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
1888.
Meanwhile. Senator Kenneth Nc
Kellar Dem, Tenn was charging
that President Hoover erred when
ne told congress he reduced expen-
ditures by 1863 100000 Emergency
and other measures Endorsed by the
administration have brought the
stotal budget for 1888 TO 1851. 900 900
Mcclellan charged. total S378,500.-
900 greater than that for the current
'6scal wear.