Evening star., 1933-01-15
Plan Would Limit Total of Ap-
preparations to Estimated
Revenues.
ASKS DEBT RETIREMENT
ITEM DROPPED FOR YEAR
Maryland Senator Will Elaborate
on Budget Balancing Proposal
in Speech This Week.

A sweeping proposal to balance the
budget for the fiscal year 1894 by di-
recting the Appropriations Committee
to hold the total Of the appropriation
bills down to $2,s49, 100, ,o0o-the esti-
mated revenues for that year-was laid
before the Senate late yesterday by
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary
land.
The Tydings resolution, which he
will call up for consideration at the
first opportunity, also directs the COM
mittee not to make any appropriation
for retirement of the national debt
during the coming fiscal year.
This plan would require a cut of
approximately $4s2. .oo0, 900 below the
budget estimates of expenditures for
next year, not counting the national
debt, according to the figures given by
the Maryland Senator In explaining
his objective.
$1,O25,7OO,o00 Probable Deficit.
Senator Tydings said the budget esti-
mates for expenditures in the fiscal
year 1884 total $3,974, 800, 900, and that
the estimated revenues for that year are
placed at $2,949, 100000. This leaves
probable deficit, he said, of $1,025,-
5000.
He said the law provides for a curtail-
ment of the debt by $4,000, 900 for
that year. Deducting this from the
estimated deficit of 81 OPS, TOO 900, there
would remain a deficit of nearly
s492, 2,000, 900, which, under the resolu-
ton, the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee would have to eliminate from the
various supply bills.
The House. however, already has
been making some reductions below the
original estimates in the supply bills
considered thus far, and whatever total
the House eliminates should be deducted
from the $492 ,000, 900 estimate Of what
the Senate Committee would have TO
cut out to comply with the Tydings
resolution.
My resolution simply provides that
we shall not appropriate more than our
estimated revenues" the MARYLAND
Senator declared. "I do not advocate
that salaries be reduced, or anything
else in particular"
viii Elaborate In Speech.
1t would be for the Appropriations
Committee to decide where and how the
cuts should be made, he added. The
senator intends to make a speech in
the Senate the early part Of this week,
celebrating on his proposal.
The introduction of the resolution
gave rise to brief debate in which
Senators Lewis, Democrat of Illinois,
and Logan. Democrat of Kentucky, ad-
r<F
reaus and commissions as the way to
reduce Government expenses.
Meanwhile, members of the Appro-
priations Committee are awaiting an
opportunity to get before the Senate
for debate the Treasury-Post Office
supply bill. to which Is attached the
general economy program, including
the proposal for an additional pay cut
on Government salaries of ia per cent
on top of the present 81s per cent fur
Tough.
The additional pay cut and various
other amendments the committee is
seeking to make in the existing econ
omy law are estimated to save In the
neighborhood of $35, 100000 next year,
In addition to whatever is being saved
from continuance of the provisions
OF the present law.
Pay Cut Proposal Fought.
The new pay cut and other general
economies proposed in the Treasury
Post Office bill have aroused the op-
position Of organized groups Of Gov
ernment workers and organized labor
also is fighting the pay cat proposal.
If the Tydings resolution should be
adopted, it probably would overshadow
the pending economy program because
of its far-reaching effects of cutting
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