The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-05
BY PETER EDISON
Daily Monitor Washington
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WASHINGTON, Jon. s.
Budget estimates for running
the government Of the United
Stotes of America in the fiscal
yeor l943, which begins July
!, 1912, ore about to be trons-
mitted by the President to the
new session of Congress.
This budget vii be q dondy,
and no fooling. 1t might
reach os high as $50 billion,
or approximately half Of the
estimated national income.
The hord-workine Budget Bu-
reou, under quiet, serious.
economist Harold D. Smith.
has been oddine up this budget
since Sept. IS. Defense es-
Inmates have been roised sew
erol times since then, and the
declaration Of war hos roised
the totoI again. For the lost
month in portieuIor the bu-
reou's stoff hos been punch
ing it's adding machines both
doy and night. And its enorm-
Gus sheets of ruled poper, con-
toured with columns Of figures.
ore the war mops for the bot
tie Of dollars which must be
won before the bottle Of bull
lets can begin.
The 1912 budget was pretty
sizeoble. On Jan. 3, l94l,
this budget, which the country
is supposed to be operating or
now, started out as q SIT bill
lion baby, nearly $ll billion
of which was to 90 for defense
By June the estimates for de-
Tense had been roised to more
than Sis billion and the toto
was S22 billion. The estimote:
for l943 90 to $50 billion, FOL
this new budget message may
give the first indications Of the
real size of the Victory Pro.
arom - the whot- it. tokes-to'
win the-wor in terms OF bill
lions Of dollars.
TIME FOR DEBATE
When Congress gets Thu
message, the soIons will hove
six months in which to ar
que about it before it is due tc
40 into effect. For congress.
ienoI action, the budget as {
whole is divided into u sec
tiors covering Departments o.
Agriculture, Interior and 10
bcr and federal security, War
Navy, Treasury and Postoffict
Departments, Stote, Justice
end Commerce Departments
lodependent offices, District
OF Columbia, legislative estob
lishment, end deficiencies
Corresponding subcommittee
from the appropriations com
nittees Of first the House ont
then the Senate 90 to work
held hearings by the hour ont
toke testimony by the hun
dreds and thousands OF Poges
Recommendations ore finoll'
made in the form Of opproPrio
ton bills on which oil the con
eressmen get O chance to otfe
amendments and to vote.
1t is all this deliberotive pro
cedure which cots up the si'
months between the time
budget message is presented Il
Congress and the time it j
scheduled to go in effect. Al
these appropriation bills mus
be posed before midnight o
June 80, preceding the be
ginning Of the new fiscol yea
for the appropriation to b.
leqoI. But if in the meontim'
any department Of the govern
rent runs short Of operotin!
funds, q deficiency bill mo-
be presented and supplement
Dry funds appropriated TO keel
the outfit going.
Taking these deficiency bill
into consideration, q bud9
e: doesn't reolly mean much
Even if budeeted expenditure
for operating the government
we're estimated at only 81.
billion, deficiency opproprio
items for almost unIimite'
amounts could be asked fo'
and in the oose Of the Wa
and Nav Departments, Sc
cured. The temper OF Con
oress and the country is t
give the services everythin!
they need ond almost any