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no additional funds and be in
structed to distribute the $500, 900
reduction over all Its employees In
stead OF Jumping it all on those
who guard borders and ports against
smuggling.
The reclamation and irrigation
fight will be renewed when the
Senate Appropriations Committee
gets around to the Interior supply
bill, in which the House made a As
per cent cut below Budget Bureau
estimates Friday.
Senator Dworshak, Republican of
Idaho, said an analysis showed that
despite the House action in re-
ducing Interiors appropriation to
61,413,o00 from the s295. .420, 900
President Truman asked, about
$147, 10000 will be available for the
Reclamation Bureau in the year
beginning July l. This includes
carry-over funds.
Senator Taft said Republicans
want to get their story to the
country, believing that there Is
widespread misunderstanding" Of
the House economy action.
Bill to Be Studied.
Chairman Bridges said the Senate
Appropriations Committee will make
an intensive study of the bill and
attempt to throw light" on the
funds available to all of the Interior
Departments branches.
Senator Dworshak blamed the
Democrats in Congress for what
he said was widespread misin-
formation about the economy drive,
particularly in the West.
There has been wilful New Deal
propaganda circulated in the West
that the Republicans are trying to
wreck the reclamation program" he
declared.
The Idaho Senator said that last
year, when he was a member of the
Democratic controlled House Appro-
priations Committee, the same sort
Of cry was raised against economies
in reclamation funds.
I'VE gave the bureau a total of
$215, ,000, 900 to be spent in the fiscal
years Of 1947 and l948," he said.
Then, just few days after Con-
gress had gone home, President Tru-
man issued an order freezing the
expenditures at IS per cent of the
appropriation for the two years.
Says Truman Cut Funds.
1--WE were accused before the elec-
tion last November of trying to
'scuttle' the program If We tried to
scuttle it. then the President went
us one better, for he reduced the ap-
preparations by go per cent"
The Congressional Reorganization
Act required the new Congress to
fix a ceiling on expenditures at the
start of the session. The House voted
to aim at $4,000, 900 900 overall cut
in President Truman's $37 500, ,00o, ,0OO
budget. The Senate lowered Its
sights to s4,5oo, ,00o, 900. The two
Houses have failed to agree In con-
ference, and present indications are
they will let the Appropriations
Committees Of the two branches
settle the issue by the cuts they
actually make in each supply bill.
The House has made a start by
cutting each of the three 1948 de-
partmental bills passed thus far
None of these-the Treasury, Pos,
Once. Labor Federal Security and
1nterior-has gone before the Sem
ate yet.
The real test of the economy drive
will come after the Senate acts
and conferees from both houses try
to agree on the final allotments.
Would Reverse Matching" Rule.
In discussing a possible review oi
laws that place growing annual OBJ
legations on the Treasury, Senator
Bridges said he has found a trend
toward asking the Federal Govern
ment to match whatever amount
the States decide to spend on some