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Show INSIDE STUFF TaAI WASHINGTON The force behind be-hind this drive I cut dowa government gov-ernment expeneea beyond th president's revised budget Is (don't doubt It) the vice president presi-dent The saga af Uvalde. Mr. Garner, continues to keep hla lip taped whenever newspaper men ar nigh. Tst there la evldenc that he haa taksn hold of this expenditures expen-ditures matter with hsnd and spur. Ha la doing far more prodding prod-ding and pulling than a vice president pres-ident ever did about anything before, be-fore, and apparently ha Mr. Rooaevelt'e private but bast wishes. If you wer looking for any Outward siga of It. you could have found one by hanging s round the treasury door In recent weeks. After cabinet meeting, after White House conferences and othsr financial gatherings. Treasury Treas-ury Secretary storgenths has been riding back te hia office la the vice president's car. Th back seat ef the Oamer aula waa really real-ly the eaoference ehamber ia which much ef this 10 per cent catting bustnssa waa hatched. At the capital, lee, Mr. Garner has been plugging in hia ewa quiet way, for the 10 per sent eut aa embodied em-bodied In the Byrnes resolution. This means the Byrne method seems I to th eae officially preferred pre-ferred ta all the ethers (particularly (partic-ularly tha Bankhead 15 per cent proposal), and It probably will be the ana adopted. Fhllassphy Csrner is ons of tha few politicians poli-ticians within the new order who Is hot upon this economy subject. He has ahrsye been that way. They say that. In the old dare, before be-fore 132, when bp waa Democratic Demo-cratic boas of the muse, ha would hot let anyone get on the appropriations appro-priations committee who was nst budget-cutter. He asked this question of candidates for tha committee appointment ao often that It atill survive in th minds f th house members: Ar ya 1 In favor of cutting appropriation and balancing tha budget, and will ya vote te do aa?" Anyone who hedged a tho question bad a chance af getting appointed t th choicest eeenmlttee spot. Also, back In tha day when Garner could talk, he told friends hla father started him sot la life with this single admonition: Tell the truth, alwaya be a gentleman, aav more money than yea spend, and you'll have no worries wor-ries Hs hss lived by his tether's advice, and developed a strong personal ab)ectlsn to th new American , custom of writing checks for everything. He eaya: Tea. can't save money aa long as yoa write checks." Career and other old-timers who had pre new deal experience with government finance are really real-ly worried about the trend ef tha budget, actually consider it Increasingly In-creasingly "dangsrous," If not "alarming." Betotttea ' Mr. R's government rsergaalsa-tloa rsergaalsa-tloa scheme la aot getting head-knea, head-knea, but It Is Involved In )uet ss close a personal fight as ths supreme su-preme court Issue. The eltualtoa changes rapidly, but tost thought at present Is that tha reorganisation recommendations recommenda-tions will to split four ways. Thta means four different bills will be presented. Loaders decided ta cut It up because, it all the ideas were consolidated In ons bill, the whole program would bo defeated overwhelmingly. over-whelmingly. This way, they may aava soens of It. Hers la what they bav la mind: Camus onus Bill No. 1 Will extend the civil service to such agencies as Poet-master Poet-master General Farley thinks have the proper new deal complexion. com-plexion. This bill will tend to perpetuate the Farley dynasty and arlll probably pass. Bill No. 2 Will give Mr. R. authority to set up two new de- ' partenenta and reshuffle government govern-ment departments aa he may desire de-sire but It will have this )oker: The Intsretats commerce commission com-mission aad th federal trade commission will be kept directly under congress and Independent of any cabinet members, ar th president Furthermore, the board of rivers aad harbor will to kept where It Is, In ths wsr department. depart-ment. (This la ta keep Mr. Ickse from getung control of rivers and harbor work ) Bill No. Ths comptroller general gen-eral will remain Independent of the treasury department, Just a he aew Is. Ha may to given some other title, possibly that of financial finan-cial hat checker, but Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt will not get control over him. This Is definite. (Congressmen never liked Comptroller General McCarl because he quibbled a lot about whether a man alept In aa upper or lower berth or whether he should have charged the government gov-ernment for a pair of balfsoles Instead In-stead of taxi, but bs did a good )ob and they want another like him Bill No. 4 This will give Mr. R. the authority and money to hire alx new assistant. It Is ths ons proposition which will go through congress whooping. No Help Th political weakness of Mr. R's cabinet was never before mourned aa mack Inside ss during this supreme court-packing contest- In ths old days cabinet eers generally controlled their atata delegations la congress, to It: Mellon and the Pennsylvania delegation. dele-gation. Eight states aaw are represented represent-ed In the cabinet. Of the 14 Democratic Dem-ocratic senators from theee states, seven favor tha court-packing bill and aevsn oppose it. Even with tw cabinet members from New York, aa wall as ths president and powerful Jim Farley, Far-ley, one of the New York senators. Cope land, dares to to agalnat. Copyright, 1MT, for Ths Telegram. |