Show W e 6 0 IO 10 swe 0 4 0 40 0 sig fig with only a short time to go before the set adjournment date of june juno 10 19 GOP leaders are asking as larg themselves with some misgivings upon what record of accomplishment can they go to the opie people ople ln in the toe coming cam laign align the republicans in control of ot the congress P for the first time since the hoover era made great promises of economy economo economy of deduc ed taxes n or reducing ii employ in ment in the government government 8 and of ending gador unrest they jeney jiney made other promises in the congles dional campaigns during 1046 6 including housing 0 ig long range rane farm program and many other 0 domestic issues u es hetsco the he first session n of the both Cn efimi SW ct edthe taft hart ley act and hailed waja it as s the magna carta of labor to date it has not cured labor trouble whether it wil wm I 1 or not remains to be seen seeh the first session pledged itself to slash from four to six billions of dollars from moe toe the national budget but bid when de rici fici fi clency ency and supplemental ap up had been com ed you could take lake any of a half halt dozen sets of figures and the cut if any was woefully small eus jh J KJ K J jk ana the second r session just end ing has enacted a tax reduction measure which will last until the congress reconvenes in jan uary riall e leaa lead admit a new and nd an higher hig big er tax law will be enacted ether this one years tax reduction can regarded as carrying out the pledge of lower taxes Is a ques tion uon much debated on economy and with only a few ew major appropriation bills blus yet to be enacted as this is writ ten congress has bas appropriated something over a billion dollars than hi president pr JC truman J 1 jg in his bosl mohl bil bli lion ifon boham a net to be exact of 0 As for a reduction in the 1116 public pay ayag oy ag roll rou of qi a million on employees as promised by nep bep john anber taber ber of new york only adent a dentham dent den thas has been made As a matte r of fact bublic employment te Is on the increase instead of a decrease of course adew thousand employees were cagy casy d charged with wua the asu demobilization demoen of war agencies after aften peace came but the discharge of these employees has in no wise the re sult suit 0 of congressional action gy early in the session the GOP G steering committee had looked over the budget an land decided that a 25 25 billion dol lar cut could be made so the house got bmw on the 1 regular 1 departmental appropriation bills and slashed some hc truman budgell budget at the sami Urne 0 when it had bad com piet can ed action on supplemental and deficiency appropriation bills it wrought brought about an increase of W more than sath the tran truman budget some of this was wab wasta ta money which c e M failed railed to provide ithe in the infra 1947 appropriations pm the biggest ri crease was added over oven opposition u SW of the ig te house and the defense adminis for national defense these and other sze ise increases in extra appropriations wipe out more than three bili bill lion ilon fromn remaining bills including jurmu for army air force navy vet erans ns and foreign assistance all eli hard to cut from a political standpoint so some me say the task ls Is im possible Generally speaking dellcie ncy ney appropriations are arc for immedi st ate uee ube ln in the current t feal year earner aaser and reductions neds redS usually xion Sion by c dagress els ems from which ch they have to put bacic back aw A the M for tax refa dc f ampro generally are arc for the next fiscal year ar and are more often a rev re s on of the original budget also sometimes resulting from congressional action in ferrins ferring consideration of budget estimates there treo w rt are two i other ask congles con IS gres dional t n practices which ini ao the e uninitiated in budget cal cu aint ni lations nt one oi is the B of S contract authorizations i which remits y an Td agency thoua to contract io or expenditures without thou set ys ting i up any nv definite taime budget ifa iva and barl etsu which means deficiency of sup role roie clement fols a I 1 a eions in the following session the other practice is leading leading authors authorize auth oriza llo tion which ls is an a appropriation for sor an aa ency tp lendland which is returned ta the treasury at some future date such an authorization would be the amount appropriated to the tass rural electrification adminis tra tion to lend to coops or to re cla ela mation projects and any w h ich ar are ane e paid pa d back to the treasury over ov er a period of years these appropriations are not truly government expenditures since they are paid back with interest but n a cut Is made maae they wey are counted as sai savings sal 0 o by con co I 1 gress |