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Show GILLS HALT OfJ TAXATION HUE Estimates Federal Expenses for Year Will Average $50 Per Capita Washington. Feb. r. warning the house that the mourning wave or high taxation would not roll back without a sharp and sweeping reduction reduc-tion in government expenditures.; Chairman Good of the appropriations j committee declared Wednesday Hf time had come to call a halt. M 7.1V I K l RES Huge figures were hurled over the h. ada of members as Mr. Good told dramatically of the vast sums expend-ed expend-ed and th.. appeals for more. There. Was a shout of approval whpn he in-, siM. .1 that the appropriation bills must i, .. ,ssed before March 4. so that the Sfnimers of a new tariff law may know the amount of cloth out of which they must patch the nation's coat. Laving down the Meflnlt.- policy that expenses must be cut before talking of lower lax.-s, Mr. ood insisted 'hut appropriations for tin- year beginning Julv nhould be kept within three and ';i half billion dollars, virtually tho sum. recommended In the llg supply measures for thut period M ULES in IU KIM S Mr. Good's plea for government economy was made in presenting the first defl lencv bill for the present vear. carrying $203,000. 000. Dcmo-leratic Dcmo-leratic nuinl-rri of tin committee declared de-clared tliorc would be other deficiency sums, and Representative Byrns, Democrat, South Carolina, declared direct appropriations this year had passed the five billion dollar mark. This stupendous sum could best be understood, he added, hy the fact that In order to meet it, the government must levy an average tax of $50 on every m:ui, woman and child. In suggesting methods of raising revenue without making thn burden on the Individual more severe than It has I been since the early days f,T the war, I Mr. Good said he doubted if a tariff an COUld raise more than $40". 000,-000 000,-000 without disturbing international trado relations. |