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Show $18,000,000 a Day to Ran Government WASHINGTON. April IS. It cost 55,028,176,000 to run the government for the first nine months of the fiscal year, and taking this as an average, treasury officials said today that total! government oxpcndltures for the j ; twelve months' period ending June 30 I ! would reach approximately G,750,-j 000,000, or nearly eighteen million dollars a day. I ; Further appropriations by congress land tho soldier bonus,- which is esti-l I mated will cost the government one! 'billion dollars, are not included. Laslj December Secretary Glass figured j 'that running expenses would amount i to 5G,0y7,H00. but he did not take into .account the loss In government oper-; ation of railroads. j Tho principal items, whiclw go up to j make up the nine months' expenses, jarc: war department $1,301,005,000; railroad administration $776,500,000; jnavy department $621,364,000; shipping ship-ping board $ 133,100 000; and Interest Ion the public debt $G61,923,000, Congress Con-gress has spent for its own maintenance mainten-ance $15,309,000, and the executive offices cost $G, 177,000. no |