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Show PLAN EXPENDITURE OF FOjJRBILLIONS DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS PREPARE PRE-PARE ESTIMATES FOR SUBMISSION SUB-MISSION TO CONGRESS. Sharp Changes Are Expected to Be Made In Most of the Estimate Under Revision Plans Which Republicans Repub-licans Hope to Work Out Washington. Estimates upon which congress will make appropriations for the first year of the Republican administration ad-ministration are now being prepared by the various government departments depart-ments under the direction of Democratic Demo-cratic cabinet officers and in accord with the policies of the Wilson administration. admin-istration. zf - The estimates will be. aubmitPSd to congress at the opening of the next session on December 6. YsinceUve Republicans Re-publicans have a majority In JnJpi the senate and house sharji changes are expected to be made la'most'of the estimates under revision plans which Republican congressional leaders are expected to work out In co-operation with other leaders of ihe Harding administration, ad-ministration, which' takes offSte on March 4. Cal Estimates for all of the government departments are expected to ajRceed four billions of dollars, thJs-trJW including in-cluding amounts for ref'ndhA portions por-tions of the public debt ftWruKliia during the next frscal year. 1'he estimates esti-mates for the first fiscal year exceeded exceed-ed six billion dollars, but these subsequently sub-sequently were reduced by something like two billion dollars. Whether all of the anneal supply measures will be completed i t the next and finnl session of the sixty-sixth congress remains to be determined. President-elect Harding Is expected to call a special session of the new congress con-gress soon after he takes office on March 4, and It may be that some of the appropriation bills will go over to the special session. President Wilson has begun work on his annual message to congress, which will be transmitted ejther on the opening day of the next session on December 6 or on the day following. : White House officials said tliey lind no information as to what recommendations recom-mendations the president plans to make to congress, but administration officers expect that among oilier things he will urge enactment of a number of reconstruction messages which he recommended nt the first special session of the present congress early last year. |