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swanky Palm Beach, Fla.; $404,000 at Hamlin Beach State Pa^k, N. Y.; $2,300,000 to improve the harbor at Bridgeport, Conn.; $28,161,000 for harbor improvements at Baltimore, 'Mid. $53,235,000 for flood control work on the Red . River, in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana; $16^28,000 for the Trinidad Dam onthe Purgafoire Rive? in Colorado; $200,000,000 on the Missouri River Basin—and on tfown the list.
Each one of the scores of projects listed in this big authorisation bill probably could be shown to be of some value. Because of the t'remendous overall cost, however, and the current uncertainties of the federal financial picture, I voted against thii bill. I recognize that there is considerable support for big public works programs as a recession remedy, but is this aoproach reallv sound when it (depends on deficit financing?
We face a federal deficit of up to $1 billion by the end of this fiscal year and the prospect of a further increase in defense costs. There has been a $5 billion in' crease in the public debt limit this year, and a demand for a further increase is in prospect. ,
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