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Show PLEA FOR GERMANY AND FEWER DEBTS MADE BY MEMBERS W A 81 TTXGTON. Al a y 2 7. Neceesi ty for biia rply reducing appropriations for government expenditures was urged upon the hou.se today by Representatives Pess, Uliio, and .Moore, Pennsylvania, Republicans. Republi-cans. Kac'h declared that unless radinn) retrenchments were made, the government govern-ment would have to go to the people for another large loan. Al r. Moore criticised the policy of the houne appropriation commitees in reporting re-porting the bills which failed in the last session without conducting careful hearings hear-ings to determine whether rdductufiis could be made. "We parsed a revenue bill tbar was presumed to provide $'j,0u0.ou0,000 for the next fiscal year." he Ki.at.ed, "but t hat ; bill was so manipulai ed that it finally provided for only 54,000.000,000. expenses ex-penses nfxt year will run up to over j7. 000,000,001). Members of the ways and moans committee say. and members of the appropriations committee declare, that, according in the estimates alreadv in. our appropriations next yfi r will amount to between ?!1,00U, 000,000 and ? Hi. 000,000,000. "Thar will leave a deficit of $6.000,0110,000." Mr. Fess id the deficit the count ry probably would have to face at the end of the next fiscni vc:u would amount lo nearly $J l.OOO.OOH.OIH). "A iRrge part of the money obtained from the Victory loan was spent be Tore it wns received," he said. |