Show CENTRALIZE U. U S. S EXPENDITURES IS DEMAND IN BIll Congressman Vif Wants ants I 1 Committee Committee Com Corn to Have Charge of Disbursements I By International News Service WASHINGTON WASHINGTO Sept 29 Jn 2 Jn reply I to an n insistent demand deman that congress j take a tighter r grasp upon the reins II of expenditure Chairman n Fitzgerald of the house appropriations committee commit commit- tee today offered a a resolution providing providing provid provid- ing expenditures by the United States I government shall be controlled through II I I one Ofle le congressional committee At present any anyone one of do dozens ens of committees C can bring in bills requiring appropriations There is no central control To remedy this tins condition Chairman Fitzgeralds Fitzgerald's resolution I lates During the present emergency m all appropriations shall originate In and be repotted reported from a single committee and all estimates for the support of I t te tie e anous arious governmental establishments establish establish- ments menta shall be referred to said 1 com corn No appropriations shall be reported In or be in order a as an amendment to I a bill reported from any other committee com corn and the question of order may be raised to appropriations reported in ill bills from other committees when reported re re- ported in their consideration without ha having ving been previously reserved In explaining his message Mr Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- j I gerald gerold made macic the following statement The purpose of this resolution is to concentrate during the period of the war all appropriations to a single com corn Since congress convened in April the committee on appropriations has passed upon estimates aggregatIng ing more than It will wil be disastrous to the nations nation's finances it If in the coming session control of ol I nil all appropriations is not concentrated in One ne committee The unprecedented I demands with resulting burdens the war Wat will entail necessitate the most extraordinary ex ex- ex efforts on the part paM of congress congress congress con con- gress to prevent serious financial em em- Unless a single committee is empowered empowered em em- powered d to review all demands of th the administration to weigh the relative Importance of f the various requests and to eliminate all expenditures other than those imperatively required th the house will perform Its most important Import import- ant duty in a shod slip uniformed and Unintelligent manner that will have re results results re- re suits that will seriously imperil the nations nation's ability to finance its military operations It is believed Mr 1 Fitzgeralds Fitzgerald's plan will go through without serious ob obstacle ob ob- stacie stacle because of ot tho the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have been seeking some means of tightening 1 control con eon of the tremendous war expenditure expendi expendi- ture tures t |