Show ft ND PlAN IS 15 READ HEADY I f Pr President Harding to Submit Submit Submit Sub Sub- mit Details Detail Tuesday WASHINGTON July 23 President Harding will submit to congress next Tuesday tho administration plan for tor funding the tho debts of ot tho the railroads to the government and nd meeting without additional appropriations the claims of the roads growing out of federal con control An understanding has hns been reached between the tho roads and nd tho the tho administration adminis- adminis It t was learned to facilitate I speedy speed settlement ment of ot the claims hns of tho the carriers without an any new arrangement arrangement ar arrangement ar- ar or modification of ot the tho wartime contracts with the govern govern- ment meat Authority to fund tho the debts of the roads it was explained Is given the president by the transportation act but it was waa wa-s deemed advisable to acquaint congress with the methods under consideration After Arter three e weeks of negotiations the basis upon which the railroads railroads' claims would be bo quickly met was said to have been reached through ugh the roads roada acceding to the administrations administration's request est to waive claims for tor I of at labor in work done on the lines Jines by tho government before returning to private control In waiving such claims however it was declared the right of any of or the roads to sue on them in the tho courts would not be affected in the tho of ot a failure of ot settlement Debts of ot the roads to the government government government govern- govern ment have been generally estimated at about while their claims have been put at various fig fig- ures urea ures Director General of at Railroads Davis in I a n recent estimate to congress congress con con- gress declared that while all an tho thc claims were not noc no In It was thought the total would be I which If It settled on the basis of ot about aboul 40 per cent as heretofore would approximate ap ap- I proximate |