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Show Q O O Q I CONGRESS IS CONVENED; I HARDING MAKES SPEECH I FIIIE BILLIONS Id ulllil HuauJ OFfflGflESS! Army and Navy Down for Big Sum in' Estimate of Houston WAR DEBT SINKING FUND IS HUGE ITEM .Millions Sought to Care for Disabled Soldiers Sailors Marines WASHINGTON'. Dec. Vt- (By the Associated Press.) Another peacetime peace-time estimate of nearly five billions of dollars for the government's expenses during the riscal year 1922 laced congress con-gress when 11 reassembled today. Thej oxift-t figures as transmitted by Secrc-. t..r Houston are $4.CG.i..6,750. an I Increase of nearly one billion dollars over the appropriations for the cur-' rent year, but $-1 l.oyn.00" less than the estimates submitted a year ago. i Continuing war costs wefer directly' reflected throughout the estimates ln-dleitlng ln-dleitlng that the government might be j on a lour billion dollar basis for Some years to come j-i compare.) with the one billion dollar maximum preceding the war. The single Item of in-j treat on the public debt was almost the pre-war maximum of all appro-1 prlatlons, this total being $92.C50.000. lu i.ddJtlon there was an estimate of -... 7i'.4.S64 for the war debt sinking, fund. . rirr d "t nr the individual departments, the army ntul navy .i usual, asked for the :-re.iter amounts, the estimate for the, military establishment being $'799.-1 275. 50 and for the naval establishment establish-ment MBi,52l,8i: The total estimates as given by Mr. ' Houston follow: Loglslatlvi .congress! 9,g24,0(0. Fvecutive (White House and gov-rt gov-rt moot departments), S16448,X79. ludlclal (supreme court), Sl.OSO,-; ir. Department of agriculture. $ 11,989,- 339. Foreign 'intercourse, $11,9S3,S48. India-; affairs, $11.9X0,703. Pensions. $266,190,000. Panama .anal, 116,187,226; Public work, $250,928,191. Postal service, $5S 5.406.902. Miscellaneous $673,154,741. Permanent annual,' appropriations, 11,800,776,861 PREP IR l BY DI Mm B ITS. Tins.- estimates prepared by the i 1'eii.o rntlc administration, arc for the operation of tho government during the first fiscal year of the new Republican Repub-lican administration. Republican lead-1 ers in the senate and house nlready have forecast a sharp cut in the total and within the week the house committee;! com-mittee;! will begin v. ork Included In the estimates for the arm:, and nan-. Is a total of $96,000,-1 iioa for development and maintenance cf the air rervjee In the two defensive I branches of the government, the navy' ask for $35,000,000 and the armyi seeks $60,000,000. Chief among the estimates for thei navy Is one of $1S4.000.000 to continue the 1916 three-year building program.' Pay for the navy personnel exceeds it by $923,910. The army's greatest single Item isi 21'6,669,880 for tho pas and mileage! of officers and men. Subsistence costs for Ihe force Is estimated at $64,490,-1 896. An appropriation of $74,808,0001 Is proposed for the national guard. Expenditures on public works sug-: gested under the war department total $185,134,928. of which $68,097,S65 (.ces t... rler and hnrhor fie eloiuneiil For Improvement end mnlntenan . of military posta. fortifications and' other works of defense', the army lists $ 1 17.153.614. Included In the miscellaneous items Is an estimate of $147,898,620 for the shipping board and one of $160,000,-) ooo for the bureau of war risk Insur ance. FOR PI BLR WORKS In Its program to take caro of disabled dis-abled soldiers, sailors and marines under un-der the war risk act, the treasury de-parment de-parment seeks appropriations of $35,-' ooo.ooo for additional hospital end dispensary dis-pensary facilities anel $50,000,000 for medical and hospital services. The fed- er.il board for vocational education asks $7$,00o 000 to carry on its work.; The treasury also seeks $57,038,000' for the Internal revenue department w hich compares with $43,038,000 spent In the current fiscal year. For pro- ; hlbltion enforcement, $7,500,000 is asked. in. hide. j m th miscellaneous ex- pendltures at.- estimates by the vari-l ous departments for the conduct of I strictly departmental affairs, some ol w bleh follows. Interstate commerce commission $5,574,000. federal trade commission $1,055,000. United Stales employes, conpetisation commission and compensation compen-sation fund $2,926,840 and railroad labor board $550,000. . io |