The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-31
KEY PARTYNEN
PLAN TO HALT
u. 5. SPENDING
Buchanan and Carter Glass
Set to Reduce Fu-
ture Outlays
BILLIONS MORE FOR
RELIEF DISCUSSED

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There are half a dozen reasons
why President Roosevelt is going
to find the next congress stubborn
about appropriating money ct the
rate of $144,0OO a minute, and
two of the best ones are Jim
Buchanan and Carter Glass.
AT the coming session." Buch-
anan said yesterday "the appro-
priations must be materially re-
duced and the budget balanced
Those words have been heard
so often around town that they
have become a dime a dozen, but
when Jim Buchanan speaks them,
people listen. The reason is that
he is chairman of the house appro-
priations committee, and has the
power to pass on every spending
project the New Deal undertakes.
Carter Glass has the same job in
the senate.
Buchanan thinks much of the
SO, 000,000,0O0 appropriated by
the last congress-that's an aver
age of $144,00O for every work
ing minute of the session-was
justified.
"The effect of the depression
and unemployment with the con-
sequent paralyzing economic con-
ditions is still upon US" he said.
Progress is being made toward
recovery in substantial form.
Large expenditures and apnrci..i~,
atoms have been necessary for
emergency purposes"
Buchanan thinks that business
recovery with the consequent flow
of gold into the tax Golfers will
make a balanced budget possible
if somebody draws the purse
strings tighter on spending. He
doesn't think it is necessary to
wait until 1939-the time Presi-
dent Roosevelt is reported to have
set-to do it, either.
1t was in line with that theory
that Buchanan stood like a rock
on the last day of congress against
making loans to wheat farmers
and maintaining the present rate
of cotton loans instead of reduc-
ing them. He estimated those pro-
grams would have cost the fed
eral treasury $700,000,000. The
bill eventually would go up to ST.
OOO,00O,OOO he added, because all
other classe sof farmers would
come in with demands for a slice
of the pie.
Glass views on New Deal finan-
cial policies are well known. A
half dozen times in the last con-
,, gress he demanded budget balanc-
ing and denounced the New Deals
dollar devaluation and spending
program. The fact that ne usual
ly was voted down never bother
ed him.
Once they set their minds to it
Glass and Buchanan would make
tough team. They would have
much more in common than their
appearance-both are small Wlry,
hot-tempered and gray. Both have
political courage. Buchanan was
taking money out of the pocket OF
every cotton farmer in his Texas
district when he blocked the loan,
but he didn't care. Nobody has
ever found the man Carter Glass
was afraid of. Both come up Tor
reelection next year.
Any bill calling for approprla-
ton of money automatically goes
to their committees. 1t lies with
in their power to remove, increase
or kill the appropriation by the
simple process of not reporting IL
out for alton by house and senate.
There already is talk Of another
work-relief appropriation for neNC
session. Three billion dollars IS
the figure most often mentioned
That is a considerable reduction
from this years $4,SS0,OOO,OO
but to Carter Glass and jim Buch-
anan it's still lot of money.
Relief Administrato Harry H.
Hopkins said yesterday that ms
unemployment program, lnvolVii l.;
expenditure of S4,000,0OO,COO VIII
be in full swing by September To-
He said Alabama and Wyoming a.
ready had been taken off the doie,
because $4,000 have received JOBS
in those states.