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Show "BLANK CHECK" A powerful Democrat majority in the House, riding rough shod over Republican opposition, recently gave the President a $5,000,000 "blank check" with which he could finance projects not authorized by Congress. The President's special fund was granted originally during the war emergency. Republicans, however, pointed out that the "Director of the Budget did not offer any justifiable justifi-able reason for continuing this "emergency fund" in peace time and could not foresee any project which would require its expenditure. , ' Utah Democrats voting against the economy 'measure which would have returned this item of government spending spend-ing to control of the peoples' representatives in Congress included Reps. Walter Granger, First District, and J. W. Rob inson, Second District. One Republican said: "One of the most fundamental mistakes the Congress of the United States ever made was the surrender in recent years of control over the purse strings of the Nation to the executive branch of the Government ". The President's emergency fund, he continued, has been for purposes for which it should not have been used." |