Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1913 — ENVOY’S EXPENSE BILL HIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ENVOY’S EXPENSE BILL HIT

Comptroller Figures Over R. C. Kerens’ Travel Account and Government Is $2.85 to the Good. Washington. Comptroller Downey of the treasury department cut an expense account of R. C. Kerens, late ambassador to Austria, by $2.85. Kerens resigned his post last, June and returned to St. Louis by way of Washington, putting in a travel expense for $300.25. The auditor for the state department decided because

Mr. Kerens had been granted leave of, absence he was not entitled to any travel expense at all. Comptroller Downey this decision, but declared the ambassador in traveling from New York to St Louis by way of Washington had journeyed 57 miles farther than he would have done by the shortest route. At five cents a mile for 57 miles the ambassador's account was reduced |2.85.

R. C. Kerens.