Byrd, Miller Give Opinions On Inflation: Candidates Answer Question Submitted By Women V
Two candidates for the Senate in the Virginia Democratic primary on July 15 gave their opinions on how to control inflation when they answered a questionnaire prepared by the League of Women Voters of the State.</br></br>The League yesterday released the responses Sen. Harry F, Byrd and Francis Pickens Miller made to the questions the League posed.</br></br>Byrd called for a reduction of non-essential Federal expenditures' and avoidance of deficit spending except in vital emergencies.</br></br>MillerÛªs inflation control plans called for giving the Federal Reserve Board a legislative mandate to curb inflation through a sound credit policy and for balancing the Federal budget through elimination of waste, particularly in the Armed Services.</br></br>On the question of how best to cut Federal expeditures, Byrd replied that cuts can be made in virtually every budgetary item except interest on the debt.