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Show ARGUE ABOUT j LARGE DEFICIT Government Faced With Debt of $900,000,000, Byras Says Washington. July 18. Opinions divided uiong party lines were given on the work of the present eongro-s on 1923 appropriation hills in 'he customary annual review of appro priatinns made Wednesday by Repr entatlve Madden, Republican, im-noV-. chairman of the house appropriations appro-priations committee; Senator Warren War-ren Republican, Wyoming, chairman of the senate appropriations committee commit-tee and Repreaentative Byrns, Democrat) Demo-crat) Tennessee ranking minority member of the house committee Economy and retrem hment jrsrs claimed by Representative Madden .iii.I S, niter V:i rron and denied by Ri pros, ntatlve Uvrns. All agreed, however, that the government faced , largi !- flclt next year, estimated iy D' Byrns as promising to reach ;: i the soidlors oonus, Bhlp tubalVy anil other bills are I pa used. PAPER SWINGS. The Republican party had made : good In Its policy of retrenchment and financial reform, said Repre-j Repre-j tentative Madden'B statement while : Benator Warren, addressing tho senate sen-ate lato yesterday said that 'he sav-I sav-I ings claimed "will be Kratlfylng. to the taxpayers of tho country" Representative Hyrns' statement declared the appropriation staff "show a lamentable failure on the part of the Republican eongtos and the administration to reduce or re-j re-j trench the expenditures of the gov-: gov-: ornment." that the budget bureau claimed "paper savings" and Kepubllcan Kepub-llcan promises of yesterday were com-pletely com-pletely forgotten In the performance of today." CITES APPROPRIATIONS Total appropriations for the fiscal year 1923. according to the statements state-ments of Representative Madden and Senator Warren, were $3,717,035,382. a reduction of J319.280.9S1 over thoso of last year. They pointed "With pride" to this reduction, but Representative Repre-sentative Byrns declared It was unfair un-fair to compare 1923 appropriations With those uf 1922 and that a com-; parlson with a pre-war year would be more Illuminating. Representative Ms ldsn'8 statement said such a comparison com-parison would be unfair because post war liabilities had caused mounting expenses. The reductions In appropriations and consequent reductions in expenditures expen-ditures have made possible a mo't gratifying reduction in taxes." said Representative Madden, " The amount of reduction for the calendar year of 1921 js approximately J80.000.ooo and the relief to the taxpayers for the calendar year 1922 Is estimated at not ley 1 ha n Jv .'.u Mini 000." All I lilll I.I I I 1 I I'll IUI I . Representative Hyrns declared tint I the "Republican party has not kept the government on a 'pay as you go' I basis" and the protective deficit, he J said, could never be satisfactorily ex-I ex-I plained In the coming congressional i elections," , Benator Warren said a cut to the, bono economy was the outstanding1 lure of the 1923 appropriations : and he- called attention that ordinary government receipts last year exceeded exceed-ed ordinary expenses ;,y J3l3.80i.65l ! while the public debt was reduced I 21,014,068,844. Regarding the prospective deficit, for 1923. Representative Madden said there was "an Indicated deficit of! J697.00O.0UO. ' will itKDiti: nniciT. "This figure would be more impressive im-pressive If the record of 1922 were not so freshly In mind " he added. "'I feel certain that the efforts of the president , supported by the admin-i admin-i Istratfve officers will be able materially ma-terially to reduce this anticipated I deficit." W hen Chairman Warren read his statement to the senate it was attacked attack-ed from the Demo, ratlc side by senator sen-ator Overman of North Carolina. ! r. inking minority member of tho sen-J ate committee, and Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Senator Overman crltl- cl.ed the Republican comparison of appropriations this year with those of last year and said he was preparing prepar-ing a statement comparing the 1923 appropriations, made three years af-J ter the war, with those of 1915. three years prior to tho war Senator Robinson called attention' to "the large 'deficiency approprin-, Hons" and said that Senator Warrens War-rens statement might not be accurate accu-rate because addlMonnl deficiencies I were in prospect. |
