The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-29
Costs of Peace Conference to
Date Aggregate More
Than One and a Quarter
! Million.
SENATE COMMITTEE
| PLANS ePEEDING UP


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Washington, Aug. 2s.-The presiden
ASKED congress today for an additiona
aprS Spriation of $s25, 900 for expense.
of the American peace conference il
Paris from July 1 to the end of thi:
calendar year. Detailing expenses tn.
president said up to July / a tota
cost of the commission was a million
two hundred and fifty-nine thousand
Washington, Aug. 2S.-Coupling its
public hearings with consideration OF
proposed amendments to the peace
treaty. the senate foreign relations
C s5nmittee plans extended sessions
morrow to hasten work on the re-
port to the senate.
Today the committee heard severa1
negro delegations who proposed
amendments guaranteeing race equal
ity and providing an American man
date over Germany's African Colo
nies. The cases OF several middle
European nationalities will be heard
tomorrow. In the senate today Sen
ator williams, democrat. Of Missis-
sippi. member of the committee, crit
icized the committee's course, say
ing that the hearings had not so
much to do with the settlement OF
war as with "the proposals to dis
countries which were our al
lies He referred to the hearings
granted the Egyptian, Irish and Indian
represe atAttves. and predicted that
the French colonies will 1sfxt ask to
be heard. SeDatcat King or Utah,
democrat, asked when the committee
expected to hear from the Fillipinos,
the American Indians and the Sec
tions of New York City inhabited by
Russian Jews and Williams replied
probably the only reason they have
not been heard is because they have
not been asked
An amendment to give the United
States a mandatory over the Kam-
erun, a German colony in Africa, was
requested by Joseph T. Thomas, a
negro, of Cleveland, Ohio, represent
ing the national race congress. Amer
lean negroes, he said, could be re-
cruited to police the territory pnder
white officers.
A petition that all the African colo
MES taken from Germany be divided
between Egypt, Abyssinia and Liberia
was filed by the league of Darker
Peoples of the World.
Two amendments were proposed by
the equal rights league. One would
provide in the league of nations COW
enant that the members would agree
and vouchsafe to their own citizens
he possession of full liberty, rights
without restriction or distinction
"a cn1
yious conditions" The other would ]
i'd similar guarantee as a separate
section of the treaty.
Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 27.-Rati-
ication within short time of the
'eace treaty with Germany, now be-
ore the chamber of deputies, seems
despite the views of some
dement's that France is not guaranteed
'ufficient military protection by the
document. After the pact has been
atified. motions of regret" embody
ng the objections to such clauses os
he document as have met with criti-
ism will be presented, thus reonenipr
he debate.
After these are disposed of the
he Anglo-American-F treaty
or the protection of France in case
( unwarranted aggression by Ger
many. The debate on this pact is
expected to be brief, as the govern
nent is considered likely to content
-self with making statement of the |
under which the treaty
Tas signed and explaining what pro- |
ection is afforded by it.
Next on the program is the bin |
Or the abolition of courts martial. fol-
'wed by measure calling for the di-
ision of Alsace-Lorraine into depart
tents like the other French, provinces.