Evening star., 1940-01-22
Senate Support
Is Seen for Cuts
In Defense Fund
Bill Up Tomorrow;
6. O. P. Due to Back
Slash of 20 Millions
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Powerful bipartisan support de.
veloped today behind Senate Ap.
propriations Committee proposal to
chop nearly $13,000000 from the
House bill for emergency defense
and neutrality expenses.
The measure was whitfield in the
House $7,388,271 below Budget Bu-
reau recommendations. AS ap-
proved by the Senate committee, 1t
would appropriate $251 ,822 ,588.
Democratic Leader Barkley, pre-
dieting Senate adoption Of the re-
duced figure, said the chamber
would take up the legislation to-
morrow. Both Senate and House
were in recess today for the State
funeral Of Senator Borah.
McNary Sees Support for Cuts.
Senator Barkley's forecast Of .
Senate cut in the special appropria-
ton bill brought comment from
Senator McNary of Oregon. the
minority leader, that Republicans
generally would support the com.
mittee reductions.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, Of
South Carolina, member Of the
Appropriations Committee, said a
substantial portion of the proposed
reduction was in funds for Navy
patrol planes. He added that the
Nays chief need at present is ad.
ditional training ships.
The committee voted to defer for
at least six months purchase of 81
scouting and bombing planes cost
ing $6,075,00 Navy officials were
reported to have agreed that tho
planes were not an immediate ne.
cessity.
Committee reductions in Army
funds included a $1,000 900 cut in
proposed s18,0O0,OO0 allotment for
big-scale field maneuvers and a
$500,000 curtailment in requested ex-
| penditures for construction of bar.
racks in Puerto Rico and Panama.
Senator Austin, Republican, OF
Vermont, member Of the Military
Affairs Committee, told reporters:
ut would take tremendous pres
sure to have the Senate reject these
economies"
Farm Funds.
II do not believe in getting hys-
| terical about national defense" re.
marked Senator Bankhead, Demo-
crat, of Alabama THE new budget
would take s5OO,OO0 900 away from
the farmers and use it for defense
and other purposes"
Representative Mas, Republican,
Of Minnesota, after call at the
White House today to get President
Roosevelt's views on the general de.
fense situation and how the naval
part of it ties in with the whole,
told reporters ne was going to speak
Thursday on a radio program in
support of the defense program.
with Oswald Garrison Willard and
Maj. George Fielding Elliott taking
the other side.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee was reported to have sliced
s10,OO0,0OO from the Treasury-Post
Office departmental supply bill,
which is due to reach the House to.
morrow
However, congressional leaders ex-
pect the economy drives in both
House and Senate to slacken per-
ceptibly. if not bog down, when
flood control, rivers and harbors and
farm appropriation bills are reached.
They said privately that many
legislators now talking economy
would pipe a different tune when
sharply trimmed estimates for such
popular projects as food control
and farm relief are presented.
There was talk in the Senate, in
that connection. of voting between
$l00, 100000 and S200,0000 900 for
parity payments to farmers. The
Presidents budget included no item
for this purpose.
A Senate Appropriations SUBJ
committee will start work this week
on the $1,100,187 900 House-approved
bill containing funds for independ-
ent Federal agencies.