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Show I Mondell Urges Immense Slash In Appropriations I I URGES GUT OF I BILLION FROM I HUNT ASKED Republican Leader Declares It Is Time for Rigid Economy in U. S. S WANTS ARMY. NAVY COSTS SCALED DOWN Wyoming Lawmaker Says His Plan Will Lmhten Lw Burden of Taxes Ik WASH1NGT N 1 "rigid economy" m appropriations for mm ernment expenses jf fiscal vf.r in order to lighten the tH H burden. Repreasul itlve Mondell, ot KUM wvomlnB. Republican l. ader. de lared W in'th house today thai the totaL-es- Hrt ilmato of $46:.3.s"". submitted by Si the secretary of the treason AojUa KL3 l,0 reduced 'V upproxl m it ;. 1. I 600.000. This reduction, he said, rausl be effected chiefly by n drastlp scal-D scal-D ing down In estimates for the army ind navy, and abs,. for sundry Ivil w . spenses the '"t j r,f whl It, hi poini r ed ou! exceeded current appro pria- uons bv more than $914 mi citmcisK. BBBI .-...:.!:;.. .1.,. .Hminlaf r.illoll for the. unfathomable Ineoiisiflciu v " In the, WmM estimates submitted 10 congress and he pleas for economy made by th 9 president and the secretary of thej mm resaucy, Mr. Mondell declared he WM would "leave it to others to properly 91 characterize these 4 stlmates. ' &M "Two vears after the war." the Re- 3(H publican lead r added, "when th. B world outside "ur borders Is largely ( bankrupt i,nd ever bod prc Ln - "BE for reduction of armaments, the "l JH'' S ministration ask for ;n appropriation I WM " ,.f 1 thai l lit ' foi tl - army, navy arid fortifications, ot five - :md'a half times the highest peaei BH time appropriation of 191(1." NC.t INHERING ! I 1 1EU fl Mr. Mondell declared these figures HjB did not include current deficiencies MU. which "may be swollen Indefinitely' f K the war department continued hs, Hr policy of recruiting the army up to fell 1 Wf strength, contrary to the understand ing that 11 should not b Increased above the "total of 178,000 men con , lempluted by the apprnpr'.'! 1- He' said It had become the duty ..f con- I grcss to talce action that would ir-- j vent "such squandering of the people's1 money by en itlng deficiencies m vio-1 lation of law " coui !- ligii n a r.vxEs. Asserting that if the economy in 1 appropriations advocated by him whs arrlod out, the tax burden for the C il-endar il-endar year 121. might be "substan tlally lightened " Mr. Mondell said he believed continuation of a tax pro-1 gram designed to raise n minimum J I revenue of $4,000,000,000 for two years us . recommended by the secretary ot the treasury, was "unjustified." With -i-i per cent of the net cost of Lhe war, excluding foreign loans. al- ready paid, he said, It was unnecessary I i,, "keep up war rates of taxation foi the purpose of reducing lhe public debt at a rate greatly In excess of the sinking fund rate applied lo the entire debt." HCKE REV I Ml l OANS While be favored repeal of the excess ex-cess profits tax and reduction of the higher inconu surtax v. Mr, Mondell said, he thought it unnoceasarj at tins time to considei alternative revenue provisions because "no one can tell what increased revenues may result from the passage of a tariff bill along protective lin 00 |