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Show WANT OVER BILLION DOLLARS. fnormous Sum Will Be Required for Running Expenses of Government. Washington. -Congress is asked to appropriate $1,108,681,777 to operate oper-ate the government of the United States during the fiscal year 1915, ac-pording ac-pording to the estimates prepared by each department and sent to the house Monday by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury. The estimates submitted Monday are $22,864,067 in excess of the appropriations ap-propriations for the last fiscal year, but their total falls $39,255,066 below the estimates lor that year, exclusive exclu-sive of the postoffice. |