Evening star., 1935-01-07
FOUR BILLION ASKED
FOR u. S. JOB RELIEF;
CITY BUDGET PARED
Expenditures Hit Eight
Billion i'm Next
Year.
PUBLIC DEBT DUE
TO BE 81 BILLION
Budget Remains Within
Credit Structure, Says
President.
Tert OF Budget Message Page A-10.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Tert OF Budget Message Page A-10.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Roosevelt in his budget
message to Congress today asked for
one-sum appropriation of $4,000
100000, to be allocated by the Execu-
! tive principally for giving work to
! the unemployed and those on relief
rolls.
This budget recommendation is in
| line with his annual message. He
! declared in that message in favor Of
taking 3,500,000 workers of the dole
and putting them to work.
The Presidents estimate Of total
expenditures for the fiscal year 1886.
which begins July l, next. is $780,
413,609. The estimated receipts by
the Government for the same year
total 1891, ,904.63 The deficit.
therefore, for the fiscal year 1886,
would total S4,528,50S,970.
s34,2ss 1000, 900 Debt Seen.
Such a deficit. superimposed upon
the expected deficit for the fiscal
| year 1885 on June 80, next, would
bring the public debt to the unprece-
dented total Of S34,239,000,00.
But this increase, as have pointed
out" said the President in his mes
sage, will be due solely to continued
relief of unemployment"
The public debt at the close Of the
present fiscal year, the President said.
was estimated to be about S31 ,000,-
100000, or $500, 100000 lower than he
estimated in his budget message Of
/ last year. The deficit for this year
will be S4,869,4l8,338, growing out of
the fact that total expenditures will
have been S8,581 ,069,026, while the
receipts are estimated at S3,7l1,6 $780,
68S.
The President contemplates the bor-
rowing of approximately S4,000,000,-
900 by the Government to carry on.
The budget, in his opinion, will re-
main well within the credit structure
of the Government. Nor will it call
for any measures Of imitation.
Jobless Relief.
The total in the budget for 1885
under the title Of recovery and re-
lief" is put down by the President at
s4,582,011,475 OF this $4,000, ,000, 900
is designated "relief of unemploy-
ment" and is to cover the employment
of the vast army of workers which
the President intends to place on the
pay roll The character of work
which will be given ranges from slum
clearance to reforestation and the
prevention of erosion of the soil.
This, in effect, is the $4,000. .O00,G9
lump sum appropriation which the
President requests of Congress. to be
allocated by the agency which is set
up to carry on this huge public works
program, under his direction.
Under the title of emergency re-
lief" which is carried in the sub
division of the budget entitled 'execu-
tive Office and independent establish
ments," the following language is
found:
ITO provide relief from the hard
ships attributable to unemployment,
or resulting conditions, to alleviate
distress, ETC.; to be made in one fund
for better control and coordination
of such relief work by the executive.
as conditions may require (the text of
the appropriating provisions to be
worked out with the Congress -esti-
mate, 1886, $4,000,00 ,000."
Other Items Listed.
Other items listed under recovery
and relief in the budget include: Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration,
| S412 ,000,0 900: refunds of processing
tax, $50 900 900; other public works
(national defense, public buildings,
etc), s186, 900; home loan system,
S39, 100000.
The total sum for recovery and re-
lief for the fiscal year 1886 is con-
siderably less than the total for these
purposes appropriated for the present
fiscal year, which was $685. ,802, 1852.
The reduction is due to the fact that
many items are not this year included.
among them $500,000,000 for drought
relief.
No Tax Increase Sought.
There is no present intention on
the part of the President to ask for
increased taxation. He does ask.
however, in his message, for the con-
tinuance of those special taxes which
WOuIQ OlIleIWlSe duGOLlldCICduy cAPAIC
next June and July.
At the same time, it is understood
that the present plan not to seek in
creased taxes will depend upon
whether the Congress keeps within
the budget submitted today. Should
there be large additional appropria-
tions, then, in all probability, Con-
gress would be asked to provide for
meeting them through taxes.
No estimate is submitted looking
to the payment Of the soldiers bonus.
None was expected.
With regard to the per cent pay
deduction still imposed on Govern
ment employees, the President has in
cluded in the budget 10000, 900 to
make the pay restoration beginning
July ! for the regular departments
and establishments. The postal serv-
ice requires an additional $25,000,-
900 for this purpose.
The President had this to say re-
garding the proposed pay restora-
ton, however:
Among the economy provisions
which now obtain and which it is
not proposed to continue is the
per cent reduction in compensation
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