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Show WASI liNGTON The movement irr Congress to cut the record peacetime $71.8 billion dollar budget is gaining strength. . And if the taxpayers of the country continue to shower show-er Congress with demands for economy, there appears to be a good chance for substantial savings. . . . The economy movement has acquired powerful leadership lead-ership in the Senate a leadership which unquestionably will make itself felt. Republican Leader Knowland called for a $2 billion slash in the budget, and Senator Styles Bridges, chairman of the Republican Repub-lican Policy Committee, made a similar demand. Declining to accept characterizations characteri-zations of their action as a revolt re-volt against the White House, Knowland and Bridges point to President Eisenhower's general invitation to save taxpayers' money. Meanwhile, Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia after close study of the budget with experts of his committee on Non-essential Expenditurescalled Ex-penditurescalled for a cut of at least $5 . billion. He previously had urged a cut of $5 to $8 billion. . The Knowland Bridges Byrd drive has significance also . in that the Senate normally increases in-creases appropriations voted by the House. .House members frequently fre-quently quip that the. Senate is called the "Upper House" because be-cause it "ups" the House appropriations. ap-propriations. ACROSS BOARD SLASH URGED Private meetings of the powerful power-ful House Appropriations Committeewhich Com-mitteewhich passes on appropriation appro-priation bills first brought forth a suggestion by Chairman Cannon Can-non (D-Mo.) for a 7tt to 10 per cent across the board budget slash. This is vigorously opposed by Administration spokesmen, although al-though they have Invited Congress Con-gress to seek savings In the huge budget. The Cannon proposal included a provision that if the Admin istration wanted to violate the across-the-board figure it would have to ask Congress for permission, permis-sion, perhaps in the form of a supplementary budget. Administration representatives, bristled at this Immediately suspecting politics. They saw in the suggestion a 'scheme under which the Democratic Congress ' would make cuts so deep that, the Administration 'would 'have to come back, for money and, thus be tagged as extravagant Horizontal budget cuts have been authorized before. Oppon-; ents of the procedure say the end result was that bureaucrats cut; out essential services , In order, to stir a 'storm ot protest, and, thus defeat the economy move. The across'..-the board cut' scheme may be advanced again after Congress has acted on the' dozen separate' appropriation bills i-that i-that make up the budget. . PRICE AND WAGE; CONTT.OLS j Excitement over possible price and wage controls died quickly) in Congress. , Responsible members of both Senate and House say that a bill restoring price and wage controls could not be pushed through either body. The memory of na-tlonwlde na-tlonwlde protest against price and wage controls is still strong. .There is, of course, no ques-; tlon but that Mr. Elsenhower Is deeply concerned over splrailng prices and wages and he plain- ' ly intimated that unbridled inflation in-flation would Inevitably lead to demands for governmental control. |