Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-20
$5O,OOO MORE FOR FAIR.
Germany At the St.
 Louis Exposition
Making a Total of SIPS, ,OOO- The Appropriations Are For Educational Pur- poses nainly.-Herr Le. Wald'S Statement.

Berlin, Jan 20.-The budget com mission of the reichstag. which is made up of the leaders of all parties, to-day approved the additional appro- priatfon Of S50.00O for the German ex- hibit at the St Louis exposition, mak- ing total of SS75.O0O. The vote, with one exception. was unanimous.
 The Prussian finance minister in- cluded $40,OO0 for the exhibit of Prus- sia at St Louis. or total of $125, ,OOO i'll the budget just submitted to the diet. The Prussian appropriations are largely for the educational ex- hibit. The imperial appropriation will generally broaden out Germany's representation.
 Herr Lewald. the imperial German commissioner to the St Louis exposi- tion, talked with Emperor William Friday. when the commissioner. his majesty and the empress visited the Hohenzollern hall of the industrial arts exhibition and saw the selections from the imperial palaces and the new decorative work done for the recep- tion rooms of the German building, assembled there for shipment to St Louis. Their maiesties are described as having been enthusiastic over the artistic merit of the new work. and the copies of paintings in the Berlin, Potsdam and Charlottenburg palaces and antique furniture selected from palace in aud near Berlin, which will give the recep- ton rooms of the German building tha appearance of an old German castle, and the silver service, the wedding present of thirty German cities. to the emperor and empress. as previously described. These exhibits will be shipped shortly by way of Hamburg. Herr Lewald is making every effort to forward the exhibits early, in order to avoid the rush before the exposition opens and possible railroad delays. Some of the goods already are on the water.
 , Although Herr Lewald has not. sue ceeded in reconciling the warning Ger man art factions and securing the CO., oncrat;on of the impressionist organ 1" ms with the art organizations that
 " classical traditions, In the main Herr Lewald is confident that the Ger man exhibit will fully represent the present development of German art, irrespective of the differences of meth ods and factional disputes. He has ECSbANN pClAhISoluA u dIdW llOC1 aAlS on all the German galleries, which contain numerous examples of the best impressionist work of recent years.
 Herr Lewa1d, having completed all the work requiring his pers pal. pres ence in Berlin. leaves here Friday for Paris and will sail for New York Janu- ary 27 from Cherbourg, on the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Will helm der Crosse.
 Berlin, Jan 2O.-The German gov ernment has been privy- to the fact that France has declined to give Russia any assurance of armed help in the event of war even if Great Britain should aid apan. It is understood here that Russia asked France to define her posi- tion in the contingency that Great Brit ain should participate in Japanese attack upon Russia The French gov ernment replied that 1t must remain military neutral, as the Franco Russia treaty might suffer from such question as that now pending. This decision of France is believed here to deeply affect the situation between Russia and Japan but also the Franco Russia teraty.