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Show PRESIDENT BUSY Ofi MESSAGE EXERTS NEW ENGLAND SAGACITY SAGA-CITY IN FACE OF ANTICIPATED ANTICI-PATED OPPOSITION Demands Strict Adherance to Budget Limitations; Cabinet to Hold Meeting on Departmental Reorganization Scheme Washington, All President Coo-lidge's Coo-lidge's natural and acquired political ability and sagacity are being concentrated concen-trated on the preparation of the administration ad-ministration program for the Sixty-eightht Sixty-eightht congress, which meets in about three weeks. The president and all his most competent advisors realize that his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination his Democratic opposition and the people generally are going to base new judgments of him on hts first message to congress. Xobody not even Mr. Coolidge knows yet all that will go into that message, but the manner in which it is being prepared indicated that those by phrase and item by item, will find a methodically prepared, carefully considered and cautiously worded document. From now on Mr. Coolidge will give most of his time to getting ready for congress. His method of preparation prepara-tion Is Interesting and somewhat illuminating il-luminating as tn the processes he will depend on In dealing with a congress that threatens to be extremely troublesome. In the first place, Mr. Coolidge's program Is to bear the Harding stamp to a considerable degree. It is to be the carrying out of his predecessor's: unflni-hed work. Therefore, Mr. Coolidge Coo-lidge is calling on Mr, Harding's cabinet cab-inet officers to as-ist him fully in putting the program into concrete form. |