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Congress Plans To Oppose Big Appropriations Reduction in Taxes Can Be Gained Only by Cutting Requests of Cabinet for Funds, Say Leaders Baker Starts Discussion Secretary's Hint of 500,000 Army Stirs Senators; Seek to Chop Pay Roll AVtr York Tribun* Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.?All hope for reducing present heavy taxes, generally regarded as war emergency taxes, rests with Congress and can be obtained only by Congressional opposition to members of President Wilson's Cabinet and the President himself, according to Congressional lenders of both parties. Senators and Representatives on the Military Affairs committees of their re? spective houses point to the fact that of the total estimates for running the government next year of about $5,000, 000,000 nearly one-fifth?to be exact, $989.578.6t7.20?is asked by Secretary Baker for the Wi.r Department. This is approximately as much as it took to j run the entire srovernment just before the war in Europe started. These estimates for the War Depart? ment presumably are based on main? taining an army of 500,000 men. This is deduced by the fact that the appro- ? priation estimated for pay is $338,240,- | 000, as against $214,429,107 for the present year. In other words, Mr. ! Baker proposes that the one item of ! pay for the army shall exceed bv about ! $124,000,000 in the year beginning July : 1 the amount paid in the year ending j June 3?. The appropriation for army pay for the current year ending June j 30 was made on the theory that the j army wouid average 320,000 men. The J new figure evidently presupposes an ! army of between 500,000 and 600,000 men. Increased Army Hinted The phase of the situation which ! has surprised Congressional leaders is <? that Mr. Baker intends to increase the ; army despite the fact that c\ery gen eral ofiicer who testified before the ! Military Committees of either house favored an army of 250,000?with the one exception of Chief of Staff .March. General Pershing, General Wood and ? the remainder of the general officers ? favored a smaller army. Acting on the advice of General March, Secretary j Baker sent in an army bill calling for 600,000 men. Although this plan has I been generally attacked by military ' experts as unnecessarily expensive, Mr Baker has asked an appropriation to justify the proposed army of half a roil'ion men. "We never will eive Mr. Baker any? thing 'kr- the S989,(.,000 he asks," said Senator Wadsworth., chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, when asked about the chances of this appro? priation. "I should say that $600, 000,000 would be the largest possible ?mount to bo appropriated for the army, and the figures may be consider? ably smaller. There will be no regular army of 500. men. I do not think there ;? a chance of its being larger than 250,000, so the appropriations will be cut down proportionately." Hitchcock Agrees WiCh Wadsworth i Senator Hitchcock, a prominent Democratic member of the Military ; Committee, agreed with Senator Wads worth that the army should not exceed about 250000 mer.. In fact, there is scarcely & member of either house of , Congress who agrees with General March or Secretary Baker. Representative Anthony, of Kansas, ranking Republican member of the House Military Committee in the ab sence of Chairman Kahn, said he be lieved it would not grant so lar^e an i appropriation as the War Department asks. There is not so strong a desire to prune the naval estimates. The reason for this seems to be that the oldtime "big army" men have taken a new tack and are almost unanimously now for a small army, with universal military training. The old "little army" men therefore will be found shoulder to shoulder with the universal military training advocates in fighting Mr. Baker's plan. On the floor of the Senate to-day severely criticized the Administration for the increase in appropriations asked. Senator Warren, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Chairman Wadsworth, of the Military Affairs Committee, and Senator Smoot, of Utah, served notice that the govern? ment departments would get much less than asked for. Senator Smoot, "the senatorial watchdog of the Treasury," threatened to filibuster to the last ditch against the enormous sums asked by the execu? tive departments. "The estimates just furnished by the various departments for the next fiscal year are more than surprising," said Senator Warren. "They are absolutely startling. Great Increase in Expenses "We used to get excited about a 'billion-dollar Congress.' Now the permanent annual expenditures?money that must be appropriated for good roads, vocational training, etc., en? tirely apart from the regular appro? priations for the various departments? have reached $1,500,000,000. The total we are asked to appropriate for the fiscal year 1921 is about $5,000,000,000, or ten times as much as the annual expenditures of the government in 1890." "We are not going to appropriate anything like these amounts," said Senator Smoot. "We will talk them to death." "I venture to predict that before this Congress gets through the appro? priations for the next fiscal year will greatly exceed $5,000,000,000," said Senator Thomas. "Unless the Mexican ?rovemment assumes a different atti? tude we shall be very lucky indeed if the estimates are not exceeded by the appropriations." Canadian Nurse Charged With Insult to U. S. Flag RUTLAND, Vt., Dec. 4.?Miss Annie A. Aitken, superintendent of the Rut? land Hospital, resigned to-day. Miss Aitkin, a sister of Baron Beaverbrook, a Canadian, was said to have supported Miss Anna McLane, of Woodstock, N. B., a student at the institution, charged with making remarks deroga? tory to the American fing. At the first session yesterday of a hearing before an aklermanic investigating committee Miss Josephine Niles, a nurse, testi? fied that Miss McLane, when shown a picture bearing an American flag, said the picture would be a pretty one "if it were not for that dirty red, white and blue flag." American nurses at the institution insisted at the time that Nurse Mc? Lane apologize and salute the flag. ^hcy repo'ted the .iffair to Superin? tendent Aitken, who, it was testified, reprimanded the American nurses for poing to Miss McLane's room, and for bringing an American flag to a table at which Miss McLane was seated. The American nurses went on strike in an attempt to force an apology from Miss McLane. | The Charm of j Choice China with its beauty of set? ting, is ever impression- i * able, exerting always a i refining influence. ? ? Both our standard and I i exclusive dinner sets ? . and table decorations, at | attractive prices, will l ( appeal to your artistic j I sense and taste. 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