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Show President Harding Need? $50,000 to ', Collect Bad Debts 1 WASHINGTON. June 13 Presl-1 Presl-1 dent Harding asked congress today j lor an appropriation of $50,000 to provide machinery for the secretary Of agriculture to collect money due the United States on account of loans to farmers in the drought stricken I sections of the northwest hi 1921 and 1922. By an act of congress appi oxlmnt"-ly oxlmnt"-ly $3.'iU0.000 was advanced and lbs budget bureau reported that about $700,000 of the 1H21 loans had been , returned Total loans outstanding in North Dakota. South Dakota. .Mo i-tana. i-tana. Idaho and Washington approximate approxi-mate $2,700,000. |