Evening star., 1941-01-08
Democrats Hail
Fiscal Outline,
6. 0. P. Cautious
Borkley Says Figure
Is Minimum Needed
For Defense
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)


BY the Associated Press.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
Democratic leader, described Presi-
dent Roosevelt's $l7,485 100000 bud
get sent to Congress today as "a
minimum of what we ought to do for
defense" and Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana said it should
wake up taxpayers as to the cost
''of fighting another European war"
Promptly after the clerks reading
of the budget message in the House,
Representative TreadWay, Repub-
lican, Of Massachusetts proposed
creation of a joint House
committee to coordinate Federal
revenues and expenditures. "Finan-
clal security is necessary before we
can provide military security" Mr..
TreadWay declared
In the Senate TydingS, Democrat,
OF Maryland called for establish
ment of three-member committee
to study methods of getting an "au-
tomatically balanced budget. The
object, said Senator Tydings, would
be to sc increase revenues and cut
expenditures that the Federal budget
would be brought into balance in
Is years
Connally for Adequate Defense.
I'm for adequate defense if it
takes Cur shirt" was the comment
of Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas. Representative Starnes,
Democrat, of Alabama agreed: Il
believe the people will cheerfully pay
the price for national security"
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
OF Michigan reported that my
digestion isn't good enough to take
all of this budget down in one
gulp," and the comment by Repre-
sentative Engel, Republican, of
Michigan on Mr.. Roosevelt's mes
sage was:
The most important part of the
message was where he said that
appropriations which exceed the
debt limit mean that the debt limit
is out the window. That means
the sky is the limit and that's
bad"
Chairman Sheppard, Democrat,
of Texas of the Senate Military
Committee declared that Mr.. Roose-
velt had been comprehensive,
logical and precise"
Would Separate Defense Items.
Chairman May, Democrat. of
Kentucky of the House Military
Committee declared that Congress
should give separate consideration
to defense and non-defense items
and that both should stand on
their own merits"
From Senator Herring, Democrat,
of Iowa came a statement, that "if
about $400 900 is to be cut off
w. P. A. expenditures, some pro-
vision will have to be made to
spread the defense production pro-
gram more widely to provide jobs
in States where the relief rolls are
just as high as ever"
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of
South Carolina told reporters that
it should be understood that appro-
priations made necessary by the
proposed "lease-lend" program to
aid Great Britain would come along
later.
Necessarily" Senator .Byrnes said
"they will be divided over a period
of two years, in view of the defense
contracts now outstanding.
Other Leaders Comment.
Others commenting were:
House Majority Leader McCor-
mack, Democrat, of Massachusetts,:
THE American people will subject
themselves to any taxes necessary
to finance our national defense"
Representative Vinson. Democrat,
of Georgia: I'm in favor of cut
ting to the bone all non military
appropriations so that we can con-
centrate on the national defense
program and of levying taxes so
that we can carry the burden"
Representative Knutson, Republi-
can, of Minnesota: Roosevelt won't
be satisfied until he has established
the biggest deficit and national debt
we've ever had and it looks as
though he's going to attain his OBJ
jective" :"
Senator Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia: I'm delighted that the
Budget Bureau finally has recog-
nized the necessity for a system of
parity payments to farmers"
Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama: Parity payments are one of
the most important items of real
national defense"
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah: I'm glad the President
didn't forget social security"
Senator Mead, Democrat, of New
York: '"The amounts recommended
for extension of our social services
and the farm program may not be
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