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Show "Keep on Cutting Budget," Says Madden GOVERNMENT expenditures are to be cut to the bone, according ac-cording to Representative Martin B. Madden of Chicago, chairman of the appropriations committee com-mittee of the house, who predicted that the policy of keeping the government govern-ment on the "substantial and creditable credit-able basis of paying its way from current cur-rent revenues" would be pursued by the incoming congress. "The Indication from President Coolldge that he expects the executive departments to eliminate $12fi,0)0,000 from last year's appropriations to torlng the budget within estimated revenues reve-nues is a good omen," Mr. Madden said. "My recent trip to Europe, which gave me an opportunity to study closely economic and financial conditions condi-tions In England, France, Belgium and Germany, has served to accentuate accentu-ate my admiration for the course our government has taken toward a restoration resto-ration of a norma state of government finances. "Prior to this visit our domestic achievements in the reduction of federal fed-eral expenditures, decrease of national debt, reduction in taxation, and the ?IImlnUl-o of wartime and quasi-war- tlme activities had been the cause of great satisfaction ; but, viewed in connection con-nection with the condition of the countries coun-tries abroad, they seem nothing short of miraculous. "The expenditures of the government govern-ment for the fiscal year 1019, which was the fiscal year In which the armistice armi-stice was signed, covering the ordinary expenses of the government and excluding ex-cluding public debt retirements, were approximately $18,500,000,000. Our expenditures ex-penditures for the fiscal year which closed on June 30 last, on the same basis of comparison, amounted to $3,-205,000,000. $3,-205,000,000. "The number of government employees em-ployees bus been steadily reduced until un-til those eliminated during the period covered by the retrenchment policy exceeded ex-ceeded 123,000. "What has been done and what Is proposed by the federal government should also be followed by states, counties and municipalities. The course of the national government should be a healthy object lesson to lesser political subdivisions. Only by their eo-operntion can the total aggregate aggre-gate expense be greatly curtailed. It won't do merely to discuss the problem." |