Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 34
WOODRUMLEADS ECONOMY TEAM ON CAPITOL HILL
Harrison to Assist Him in Seeking Check on All Federal Spending.
By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—A cloud _ no larger than a man’s hand is be- “% ‘ginning to rise in front of the Ad_mipistration’s projected spending program at the next session of Congress. . Everybody agrees that defense appropriations will be as generous : as they were last s er, if not more so. But lines are - beginning to ““form: for real ‘opposition to other forms of “spending. More important, there
is going to be|
determined and effective resistance to even defense spending of the blank check type. At the moment this opposition centers in the able person of Congressman Cliffon Woodrum of Virginia, one of the most influential members of the Appropriations Committee ‘and a, longstanding leader ‘of * the “economy bloc. Standing with: him, in all probability, will be Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, boss of the Senate Rinance Committee. Other important figures in both houses will also be lined up. Strategy will be to try to get members of the House: Appropriations and Ways and Means Committee to’ ‘agree on a general program for economy. Such a program, as Rep. Woodrum sees it, would have two principal points: 3
Economy Is Goal
'1-—To prevent any unnecessary expansion or: extension of regular Government services: of New Deal agencies under the guise of defense measures. : 2—To keep appropriations down to budget’ estimates in all cases, - making sure that all moneys appropriated go, for specific purposes and are not lumped together to be Spent at the Administration’s discreon. If the House leadership could be brought. to o. k. a program, a special committee could be set up by “vote of the House fe scrutinize all appropriation bills and see that they conformed to these two points.
May Form Bloc
If that isn’t possible—and it probably won’t be, since the administra tion is already moving fo fight the program—interested ‘members prob ably will rally around Rep. Woodrum in a more or less informal com‘mittee or ‘bloc to do the.same sort of job. The point is that if the bulk of pie Appropriations and Ways and Means Committee members go along with this idea, as seems likely, such an informal committee would be almost as effective as one set up by action of the whole House. Rep. Wodldrum is especially emphatic about the blank check matter.
‘Money Available Quickly
“There's no need for that sort of appropriation, with Congress here all the time,” he says. “They can get money quickly in any emergency through regular channels. This fall, for example, the defense commission people put in a hurry-up call for money for Defense Housing. They appeared before the Appropriations Som mmittee at 10 gone morning and lained that the matter was urgent. that each day counted. “We took the item they were concerned about out of the deficiency bill and rushed it. By 6 the next
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- evening it had passed both houses}
and been signed bythe President. 2 Favors Appropriations
Rep. Woodrum doubts any important savings can be made by cute ting down on regular appropriations. As long as Congress keeps a given bureau or agency in existence and gives it a job to do, that agency must - have money. Small sums may be whittled off here and there, perhaps, but the saving is insignificant. . His big objection to the blank check system ‘is that a compara-. tively: modest sum ean: be allocated to start a new m which, eventually, will cost a huge total.
MAP 1. U SESSION ON STUDENT HEALTH
} The Indiana Student Health Associatioh’s annual meeting will be held: at Indiana University tomor-; how. Registration will: be. held at 9:15 a. m: and Dean Herman T. Briscoe, dean of the I. U. faculty, will: greet those attending. “Safeguarding the Health of Women Students,” by Dr. Elizabeth B. Ward, Butler’s dean of women, will be: the first address. Other subjects to be discussed include “Unusual Cases Coming to the College Physician” by Dr. George Davis of Builer; “Student Health Service Plans and System,” by Dr. W. D. Gatch of L. U,, and Histories of Individual Students
of piysical education, Purdue Unt versity.
Two. Butler University men, Theo " dore and Claude Strapes, have been accepted by the United Airlines school of instruction.
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