Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-08
BY ROBERT X. WALSH

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Claims that Congress really
Saved" the 50 billion it trimmed
from President Eisenhower's
budget requests this year were
disputed today by a House ap-
preparations expert and a bust
ness organization research di-
rector.
In their separate analyses,
however, Representative Taber
of New York, ranking Repub-
lican on the Appropriations Com
mittee. and Eugene F Rinta.
research director for the Council
of State Chambers of Commerce,
said the budget still could be
balanced next year by careful
administration.
They differed on the extent of
what Mr.. Rinta called "phony
cuts" in appropriation estimates
for the fiscal period which began
July /. Mr.. Rinta asserted that
actual savings were only about
$500 million. Mr.. Taber esti-
mated that a realistic total of
reductions would be between ST
billion and SIS billion.
Notes Appropriation Trends
Mr.. Taber. former chairman
of the committee, produced his
annual compilation of appro-
priation bill trends during the
session which was adjourned
last Tuesday.
Mr.. Taber showed how each
regular appropriation bill Jared
in original White House esti-
mates. House and Senate COM
mittee recommendations. sep
arate House and Senate actions,
and then in final concurrent
passage.
Overall budget requests sent to
Congress since January totaled
$62 1888. 344,428. These included
not only funds asked for the
1856 fiscal year but also sup
Elementary or deficiency funds
sought for the tag-end of the
year which ended last June 80.
The House committee. headed
by Representative Cannon, Dem
ocrat of Missouri, reported out
these bills at combined total
of $59,976,071, 687. The House
further decreased the total to
$58.641.72
Total Reaches S6I.7 Billion
The Senate Appropriations
Committee, of which Senator
Hayden, Democrat Of Arizona, is
chairman. increased the over
all total to $61,718.034,0l5. The
Senate itself upped the total a
bit more to $61,745.58 ,905.
The total that arrived at the
White House, following Senate
House conference compromises
in several instances. was $780,
835. 983,414.
Mr.. Cannon and other Demo-
Gratis have not commended that
every cent of this 50 billion diff
ference between original requests
and final enactments represented
an actual reduction or promised
permanent savings. Democratic
leaders noted that, on the basis
of experience, the amount of
money eventually voted by Con-
gress for this fiscal year will be
swelled early in 1856 by supple
mental requests from depart
ments and agencies.
Democrats also insist that they
did not try to break records in
budget-cutting this year. But
they contend that the actual
cuts by Congress this year are
considerably more genuine than
Republican critics and others say
Referring to the So billion
reductions, Mr.. Taber had this
to say:
I'm a great many ways, things
have happened in connection
with the appropriation bills that
tend to wipe out the figures that
appear on the surface For in
stance, in the public works bill
(Which Congress lowered from
$l.8 billion to $1.3 billion prof.
ects were initiated-many of
them without any budget esti-
mate-with an ultimate ag-
gregate cost of upward of SO
billion.
I'm the agricultural bill (which
started at 1898 million and came
out at 1888 million) there were
items above the budget aggre-
eating 1920 million that do not