Show washington letter by NATIONAL N L pl PRESS SERVICE washington august 1926 one oe hundred million dollars has been lopped oft off of the government estimate tor for the new fiscal year by the president even with this reduction the nation will spend during the fiscal year ending june 30 1928 1923 some fifty five minions milio 1 more e than Is fath re it had expected to spend d in the current ur fiscal year however r responsibility alpon lity tor for this increase rests r s with vita congress which passed an appropriation for the spanish war veterans amounting to thirty six million tor for the veterans bureau eighteen million I 1 and sixteen million for the civil service retirement act in ca connection I 1 neck with these measures measure a I 1 it t sh should out tie be said that the president signed them after congress passed them and has no desire to avoid responsibility the president stands for economy and savings but in the broadest B s use nse economy which will provide the means and wherewithal tor for construe constructive spending that is the goal to wards ablee he is aiming la in which he la is sustained by tho the people ol of the country at large 0 0 0 Demera tic natio national 11 at leaders who na ik ne e had their hands full for some ye years rs attempting to drive in a single hitch tie the wet inet D democrats of 0 the north and the dry democrats of the south have a mw m w trouble on their hands ever since senator caraway before saili sailing ng tor for europe issued his hia nuncia menlo amento against al a S smith r a it it t te idol ot of the new york democracy as an impossible presidential candidate a topic which the solid in alabama mississippi and other states havo have since been developing over night the democratic national lenders leaders are fearsome that the attempt to ru run la the north a and n d the south in a harmon harmonious fous double hitch becomes alicio almost st hopeless the probable increase of 0 fifty five millions in governmental expenses tor for the n ew it seal fiscal year will undoubtedly operate among the sober thinking members member ot congress to give new life to the bill which has been I 1 tor r some time before that body tor foi the general overhauling over hauling reorganization and abolition ov of needless governmental bureaus commissions boards and agencies this first came up in 1921 and it is certain t to 0 be one ot of the administrations pay economy measures next winter and ought to he be enacted further celay the total ot of government employed emp loyes las has been cut from the high mark ot of to and it will stand a further reduction happily in all ail these undertakings the president is not one in the habit ot of putting his hands to the plow and only to turn it from the furrow chairman william M butler ot of the republican national committee aho for some time has been a shining mark against which the democratic I 1 national intrigue was being directed has surmounted his difficulties and his bis le ie clention in november is now conceded metropolitan newspapers who have hall had men in the massachusetts fielda macking a survey have re ported back that a victory tor for david I 1 walsh the democratic candidate was only oa ay iy possible through his securing some geenty sei only five thousand republican votes and holding lits ills dem strength intact the washington post and other newspapers that david is making but little 1 headway among the republicans and 1 i is s having serious breaks in his demo I 1 cratic line this fact act is of national I 1 importance because it is artell N ell under stood that because of the relationship between senator butler and the president and because the election I 1 I 1 is to be in massachusetts that it would b hurting coolidge if butler i N vas as defeated 0 0 senator borah has so keen an eye and so sensitive a reaction to pubic I 1 issues that it will be a rather novel experience for him it if it tu turns ans out that in his campaign which he be is now carrying on against the world court I 1 that he be is tilting at a windmill visitors I 1 front from all parts of the country who have wand ered into washington autin during the past lew few months are practically unanimous in the statement that they are unable to 11 fandl n ds anything n y th ing like a world court issi issue 1 and I 1 tb that at the people as a whole are quite indifferent over it lit la truth when it 1 is remembered that when the fight over the world court issue was going on that the gap between those who b believed in it with reservations which would limit its activities to the and those directly op 1 posed to it was not very wide at tl tle P best this natural slump in public I 1 interest is not surprising the one b humorous feature of it is the possibility in lity that senator borah has really i become entangled in a dead issue I 1 i |