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...controversy pursuant to Speaker Garner's "Plea in Homespun"? (1) Is it customary for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to take the floor to deliver his opinion on an issue? (2) Has the seriousness of and widespread interest in the present movement to balance the budget given publicity to the Speaker's taking the floor which, at another time, might pass unnoticed...
...Received a $386,983,000 War Department appropriation bill, reduced $24,380,000 below the Budget and cutting officer personnel...
Months ago President Hoover, obviously endorsed by public sentiment, and joined by even the ill-organized, quarrelsome House of Representatives in its famed standing vote of March 29, resolved that in fiscal 1933 the U. S. must spend no more than it takes in, that the Budget must balance. Three consecutive, mounting deficits would certainly impair the public credit...
Last week, a month after the House's famed rising vote, the prospect of the 1933 Budget being brought to balance by Congress was never more remote. Lobbyists had taken the place of leaders. An atmosphere of confusion and delay permeated the Capitol...
Feet to Fire. With the House politically set against all serious economy, its leaders feared that the tattered omnibus bill would, in the end, produce savings of only $50,000,000, far short of the amount required to balance the Budget even with a realistic tax bill. Greatly provoked was Speaker Garner at the Democratic runaway from the recommendations of his economy committee. He vowed that roll call votes would later be taken on all important changes "to put the members' feet to the fire in the matter of economy...