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Show EGBiH IS KEYNOTE OF HQU3ESPEECHFS Chairman Fitzgerald Declares De-clares Nation Was in Danger of Bankruptcy. I WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Economy speeches were delivered in the house to-dav to-dav by Chairman Fitzgerald of the ap-prbpri'ation ap-prbpri'ation commit iee and Majority Leader Underwood. If all of the demands made upon congress con-gress by the executive departments at this session of congress had been granted, grant-ed, Representative Fitzgerald said, ''the United States, the first nation in wealth in the world, would have become the world V first bankrupt nation.'- "Extravagant expenditure of public money," said Mr, Underwood in . his talk, "( ' has been the greatest danger confronting con-fronting republics since the world began. be-gan. Unless some plan is evolved to centralize the control of these expenditures expendi-tures and to curb leckless extravagance and waste I can see no cud to the increased in-creased taxes that must be imposed upon the people." Representative Gillett of jMassaehu-setts, jMassaehu-setts, ranking Republican of the appropriations appro-priations committee, criticized the administration ad-ministration for extravagance. Ho predicted pre-dicted that "before the first of next July the administration will be selling bonds to pay the running expenses of the government and keep a balance in the treasury. ' ' j Representative Madden (Republican) . of Illinois attacked the policy of reduc-1 ing salaries of postal employees as a method of retrenchment, during debate in the house on the sundry civil appropriation ap-propriation bill. "I am told the rev-I rev-I euues of the postoffice department will run behind $20,000,000 d urine the pres-! pres-! ent fiscal year," said he, "that economies econ-omies of every kind are necessary and that 350 letter carriers in Chicago" have been reduced from $1200 to $1000 a year notwithstanding the fact that the annual an-nual revenues of the Chicago office are $20,000,000 more than the expenses. "I protest against the reduction of the salaries of the men who do the work of the postoffices in order that you may continue your rush to empty the treasury," |