Evening star., 1936-01-05
BUDGET MESSAGE
EAGERLY AWAITED
Estimates on Expenditures
and Revenue for Next
Year Due Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND

plagued PreStdent RooSeDett since
his prediction promises to rake
Federal income Offset outgo. High
cost OF depression, with resultant
price OF recovery. upset balance OF
national budget. caused widespread
apprehension among conservative
students OF Government finance.
Administration established reg
ulor" and "energency" budgets to
distinguish betpeen ordinary cost
OF running Government and eI-
penditures for unemployment and
relief.
Liberty League and other critics
of administration hare been
cldnloring for balanced budget as
best assurance OF recovery through
restoration OF public confidence.
By the Associated Press.
With interest in an already stormy
issue heightened by President Roose-
velt's assertion that the administration
Is approaching balanced budget. the
Capital is awaiting impatiently for
publication of his exact estimates.
Tomorrow the annual budget mes
sage will go to Congress to be read
to the two houses separately by their
clerks, contrasting sharply with the
fanfare that accompanied the Presi-
dents personal delivery Friday night
of his message ION the state OF the
Union"
The second of the two regular COM
munications to Congress will bring up
to date the official estimates for the
current fiscal year. which still has six
months to run, and project schedule
of revenues and expenditures for the
fiscal year which will end on June go
1887.
Press Copies Given Out.
The message itself was given to
newsmen yesterday. to be held until
tomorrow, and President Roosevelt
held a special press conference to ex-
plain details.
The issue Of balancing the budget,
inextricably linked as 1t is with the
broad issue of huge governmental ex-
penditures, has become so battle-beset
that Mr.. Roosevelt's brief reference
to it Friday night brought enthusi-
astic cheering from his Democratic
followers, which the Republicans
matched with a hullabaloo broadly
tinged with derision.
In his annual message, Mr.. Roose-
welt said:
I'VE are justified in our present con-
fidence. Restoration of national in
come, which shows continuing gains
for the third successive year, supports
the normal and logical policies under
which agriculture and industry are re-
turning to full activity.
Sees No Tax Increase.
"Under these policies, we approach
a balance of the national budget. Ma
tional income increases, tax receipts,
based on that income, increase without
the levying Of new taxes. That is why
I am able to say to this, the second
session of the Seventy-fourth Congress,
that, based on existing laws, it is my
belief that no new taxes over and
above the present taxes, are advisable
or necessary
National income increase. en-
ployment increases. Therefore we can
look forward to a reduction in the
number Of those citizens who are in
need. There also we can anticipate
a reduction in our appropriations for
relief"
As To the contents of the budget
message, there have been many guesses
and but a single positive indication
that ordinary governmental expendi-
lures will be about the same or only
slightly higher than for the current
year, most recently estimated at
S3,5e8, 900 900. A decision on emery
ency requirements, set this year st
4,154,0O0,000, was reserved for the
last moment.