Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — WILSON’S EUROPEAN TRIPS COST MILLION AND A HALF. [ARTICLE]

WILSON’S EUROPEAN TRIPS COST MILLION AND A HALF.

Washington, Aug. 28.—'President Wilson asked congress today for an additional appropriation of $825,000 for the expenses of the American peace commission in Paris from July 1 to the end of the calendar year. The president said that up to July 1 the cost of the commission had been $1,250,629 and he estimated that by the end of the year the total would reach $1,506,706. A part of this has been appropriated. Among the largest items up to July 1 were included $144,914 for subsistence, $103,000 for salaries, $105,000 for expenses of missions • sent into other countries. The president said that in view of the 200 per cent war increase in prices in Paris he considered the expenses “very modest.” When it began its work in Paris,

the American delegation, the president said, consisted of 1,300 persons, but on July 1 this number had been reduced to 400, of whom only 88 were civilians. President Wilson called attention to the fact that no action had been taken on the state department’s request for an additional appropriation of $5,000,000, and said the department had been forced to draw on its emergency fund. He asked that the $5,000,000 appropriation be made.