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Show IT WILL TAKE A FIGHT ' " TO STOP EXTRAVAGANCE It Is understood that the administration adminis-tration is trying to put a muffler on Senator Martin 'of Virginia who was declared for a program of economy and retrenchment. Republicans, ,wlth Democrats in Congress' who have some regard for the public wel- fare, are opposed to the continuance , of such propositions as the expenditure expendi-ture of three billion dollars for big guns that connot be completed for a year or two, the continuation ot yast expenditures in the erection of cantonments can-tonments for troops, that are not to be called, the building ot systems or macadam roads In the neighborhood ' ' I of southern cantonments at. federal s , expense, the maintenance on the pay- roll of an army of thousands of fgf clerks connected with the Food and Fuel administrations and similar methods ot shoveling out the" people's money. It is evident that a fight, will have to be made to curtail 'expenditure. 'ex-penditure. Fifty'-seren billion' 'dollars 'dol-lars has been appropriated in two years. ' , ' One interesting feature of the situation sit-uation Is the completion of a large number ot temporary buildings in Washington, to. house war activities and war workers, As effort wl be made, to continue this program ot construction, It ls""sald. The county will v have to be heard from if the pouring opt fit billions 1b to be" dls-continued |