The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-12
ReaLEcononlyPu Push To Balance Budget Near
Federal Government Has Approached Closer Than at
 Any Time Since I03I-AI Depends on President
By LYLE c. WILSON

By LYLE c. WILSON
 United Press StafR CorrespOndent)
 Washington, Nov. 12-(UP)-The federal government is nearer 6 real economy drive toward a balanced budget today than at any other time since the treasury went into the red in 1881.
 Observers believe economy and @ budget balance depend now largely upon President Roosevelt. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau's proposal in New York that the books be balanced by slaShing $70O, ,OOO, 900 out of next years appropriations for public works, highways, relief, Civil- ian Conservation Corps and agricul- trire promises to blow up political hurricane in the special session of congress convening Nov. IS.
 When the storm blows up," one commentator remarked today, "the extent of economy achieved will de- pend entirely on whether the presi- dent can take it."
 President Well Supported | 1VOOSCVCAV WILL AAhVC HOWC1AuA congressional backing if he desires to stand of the comparatively free spending groups in the New Deal administration and in congress. Chairman Pat Harrison of the sen- ate finance committee telegraphed Morgenthau yesterday that extreme expenditures should be checked and the budget balanced"
 Harrison is powerful figure in the senate, a leader now of the con- servative Democratic bloc which at- tempted last session to make him Democratic floor leader to succeed the late Joseph z. Robinson.
 The White House blocked Harri- sons election. Administration pres- sure was sufficient to give the elec- tion, by a single vote, to Sen. Alben w. Barkley, D.. Ky, who was judged to be more amenable to New Deal policies than the veteran from Mis-. sissippi.
 Harrison's Telegram
 A sentence in HarriSon's telegram seemed today to recall that sharp engagement between conservative and New Deal senate Democrats "The administration must appre. ciate," Harrison said in his telegram to Morgenthau, "that honest differ. ences of opinion may arise as to pol. icy but that 1t cannot permit these differences to influence insinuatione and charges of party disloyalty"
 That language might be interpret ed as indirect notice to MT. Roose- welt that Harrison-and numerous like-minded Democratic senators - intend in the next congress to do some policy making on their own even though their ideas may not jibe with those of MT. Roosevelt.
 Senator Glass in It
 Sen. Carter Glass. D., Va, may be an even more vital economy factor than Harrison. Glass is chairman of the senate appropriations commit tee. He scorils some New Deal poll. cies, approves of some and merely opposes others. But MT. Roosevelt can depend on the little man from Virginia when economy is at stake, The same goes for Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va, Sen. William H. King. D., Utah, and many others.
 But there is no evidence yet that @ senate majority, even with Repub- lical1 votes, is committed to economy. The majority which could vote econ- on1y and balanced budget into law will depend, finally, on whether MT. Roosevelt insists that congress cut expenses.
 House May Object
 The house may prove to be less amenable to White House wishes. Except for the spectacular senate bolt on judiciary reorganization last year, the house baked most often at Roosevelt policies.
 Offsetting budget balancing pros- poets is the possibility of a swelling relief load and administration de- termination that mo one shall starve."
 Also shadowing plans to balance the books 20 months hence-.slo soon. er-are MT. Roosevelts announced program and the fact that business recession may cut federal income to the point where talk of budget bale ancing will be remembered merely as @ 1887 dream.
 New Farm Plan
 MT. Roosevelt is standing pat for his new farm plan which is called the ever-normal-granary. Agricul. tural department experts told al house ways and means sub-commti- tee yesterday that the granary plan would cost $275, ,000,00O more than the existing soil conservation pro- gram which 1t would supplant. That would make the total cost next year about $775, 5,000, ,00O and shove overall agricultural appropriations beyond $l ,000, ,0o0, 900. Within 24 hours of Morgenthau's intimation that there would be no new taxes from this congress, pro- cessing taxes on wheat and cotton were proposed to pay ever normal granary costs. Further confusing budget balance prospects is the fact that in every Roosevelt year some natural and unpredictable expense has caused federal expenditures to leap far beyond budgeted figures, El am New Y( ~~-.> ..~.. 11M NR FAmaRAl