Show Pc 1 aw VA HIN ION Ch r are not Com Com- m- m lete Complete on various appropriation bin blib Ills and neither are total to pl lete te on new commitments of the 8 Oth wh congress it seems eema apparent w r have been willbe made In governmental costs will will be by new y-new new expendi p tures ture ct f among mODI these thes new com om- commitments Is Is of course the two billion dollar cost Olt of redeeming red terminal leave bonds Congress while making slashes In appropriations baa failed to reduce toof reduce tire tb extent of government services service and as 81 a result in many man cases cases cot cost of these thee s cel will willbe willbe be transferred ed b back ck to the states state so that In the final analysis the cut in appropriations represents no net saving having in taxes For instance if 11 the house bouse cuts cola bla stand nd nth bureau ur au affairs affair 21 states tates teJ will be forced to expend e hd U god I n iOlla wor for or ed eyare to to con con- continue continue to educate Indians in the states tates Another instance where states tate will be forced to put up the money slashed by congress is in ini inthe J i the ground water studies of 0 the geological survey These studies tudes have bave ave been made de on a P 50 o-l o O basis the states sta tes paying half and the federal government paying un un- under der a standing long-standing agreement In Florida for Instance ground groundwater groundwater water studies are important to development of the state and In tn 15 western states the additional cost to them with federal funds withdrawn will be approximate approximate- ly approximately million dollars Another result of drastic cuts cutsin in appropriations and failure to 10 cut services at the same time will bring about a more central central- centralized government which is di- di directs di U opposite po the policy which h has been been enforced for s 's several years The trend has been to decentralize government For in in- in instance stance drastic cuts in ture in commerce and in the department Lof of the interior will willm m mean the state t te field om s In these Plese de de- and more tion Uon of of work rk in Washington When Wh When rt the Uie lb congress con cond veneda a d even ev n before Con Con- Congressman NewY gressman John Taber of New Verb Y rk chairman of 01 the house ap ap- appropriation committee a ed that th tonne he be would definitely fire fhe a million government em ems plo Tees He Re said government the govern govern- government ment could a jet get Hong along U ng with that many less employees and not even miss them Even counting the tremendous reduction in government employees as a re re- re salt sult of 01 liquidation of the vari varl ous war and agencies agencies and and the lay off of 01 thousands of civilians as asa asa a result of the reduction of the military establishment to a peacetime basis the highest figure including all of 01 these is a reduction of approximately thousand So Congressman Taber reached approximately o 0 n e- e fourth of his goal Debate in the the closing days of agricultural the congress over the tural appropriation bill was par par- particularly bitter and lengthy with reference to the controversial issues of soil conservation school lunches and parity payments The house GOP leadership had reduced soil conservation pay pay- ments payments from million dollars to fo 50 million dollars had e t en-t ep firely irely eliminated ilU a dollars for parity payment nt ap ap a and had reduced redu reduced d the he dhe school lunch program 1 from 75 5 million dollars to 45 million n lUon dollars dollar The house also atso slashed lashed the budget estimate of i for federal meat inspection almost in half The Senate debate for rester j f these items as a a solemn pledge to the farmers of the country Y ry was led by Senators R aeU 11 bf of bf Lucas L S of Young of or North N Dakota Dako Morse Morae of Oregon Ore Robertson R ri of in o s 11 I 11 Virginia l and and an Hip of I Alabama j Said aid Senator Morse Horse with tea re- e- e ference fegence to both be the tion lion program and the Uw a appropriation bill bUl I I Ith think th k It Jt Illustrate tr tea zeta galo two points huts that need need to be driven home home One desis de with wl the tax reduction ram pr am which ithe senator from Georgia and I op opo posed the other day It illustrates again that the American farm en ens must mutt appreciate the fact that the type of economy which if is now flow attempted to be foisted foisted up ups upson on on them takes out of one one pocket pock t many more dollars thin than th n is at at- attempted tempted ted by politicians to put in another pocket by b way of a tax tai cc reduction c o program v The second point it must- must rates la is the argument about the ui American farmer falD working IQ u aDm day o t for tor the thi thilo lo ern Let md ten tea u tM i farmer now that t t wN if U this type of eta a a r raid J ld on On his best bed Merest is I permitted he wil mind that congress con ss will have sold his hi economic interests short It is time Ume the American farmer should awaken to what if fa being Is-being being I done to him by this congress I |