Show Congress Balks at Draft Draff Of Billion Budget Cut By WILLIAM K HUTCHINSON WASHINGTON May 17 INS President INS President Roosevelt's challenge of congress to draft its own slash of expenditures Saturday found C Capitol p-itol p Hill legislators legisla legisla- tors tons generally hesitating to undertake the task Three congressional economy leaders offered specific programs to meet the presidents president's challenge but many legislators passed the buck back to the White House Prevailing opinion favored the president and budget bureau sendIng sendIng send- send Ing ng a revised budget to congress with the administration itself pointing point- point I ing ng out how can be slashed from government spend spend- ing log Some Oppose Big Dig Slash There was WM even some sentiment opposed to so big a slash While declaring the budget bureau bureau bu bu- reau ought to revise the budget Senator Byrd m. m D. D Va offered i a i specific program It Is modeled modele after atter the famous Douglas budget of the 1933 economy congress which included even a 15 per cen cent slash in veterans' veterans payments ant and government salaries Byrd said We can cut expenditures expenditures expendi expendi- tures tunes by one billion bUlion dollars without Impairing efficiency of government We are appropriating for unemployment relief including W V P A direct relief and other re re- re- re lief That could be cut And we save another by cutting all aU other expenditures ex not fixed by law such as interest by 10 per cent That Tha would save Representative Taber R. R N. N Y proposed a series of ot specific slashes in appropriations for a total tota saving His proposed pro posed slashes were i in W P A in C C C in inN N NY Y A in R F C farm security 2000 in civilian pilot training 50 in FCC i ithe in inthe inthe the Surplus Commodities corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion and in miscellaneous miscellaneous miscella miscella- items Seeks Two Billion Cut Representative Treadway R R. Mass going further than Taber Tabe proposed a two dollar slash Treadway suggested the entire ap for C C C N NY Y A so soil soU conservation and federal aid fo for roads be eliminated at a saving o of He proposed another another another an an- other saving by bv a 5 50 per cent slash in all fun fun-ds funds fo for rivers harbors national park improvements im mi- imi i W P A export bounties bounties boun boun- ties departmental publicity an and I franking national resources planning planning planning plan plan- ning board and the office of government government government gov gov- reports Another saving he said could cone come through a 25 per cent slash in ref refugee refu u gee relief agricultural aid and th the funds in the commerce interior justice and war depart depart- departments ments and Independent agencies |