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Show BUREAU CUTS DOWN FEDERAL EXPENSE W ASHINGTON. Aug 7 Budget I bureau pruning knives arc rapidly , lipping down th estimates of jpvern-meni jpvern-meni expenditures for the fiscal year 1924 to the $3,000,000 000 mark, It . na said at the treasury Brig. General Lord, of the budget, expects to have ready for submission to President Harding by the latter part ot this wce a preliminary statement state-ment of the probable requirements of the spending departments of the government gov-ernment for the n-xt fiscal year President Pres-ident Harding has announced that he will not send to congress any estimates exceeding the probable receipts of the government, which have been put at $4,198,000,000. 'this figure is about $(j,llO0.t ,110(1 Irs. h . 1 1 1 I lie authorized expenditures for the current fiscal year. in |