The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-29
SS25,000 ASKED TO
PAY EXPENSES OF
!. PEACE COMMISSION
TILL END OF YEAR
Detailed Expense Account is
Submitted to Congress by
President, Who Declares
That Expenses Have
Been Modest

Washington, August p.
President Wilson asked Coz
gress today for an addition
appropriation of S825,000 f.
the expenses of the Americ;
peace commission in Paris froni
last July / to the end of tn
calendar year.
The President transmitted detailed
account of the expenses, of the Anne
lean delegates He said that VIII s
prices in Paris had increased about -
per cent because OF the war. the
penses of the American commissi'
were very modest
The President said that up to Jul
the total cost for the commissie q
had been sl.250,e2s. and he estimat 6
that by the end of the year the tot
would reach $1,506.706 part of tt Is
had been appropriated heretofore.
Among the largest items up to Jul
were included, S1449l4 for subsis
tence: s103, 900 for salaries, and 1860
for expenses of the commi ssioners Sc g
into other countries.
In transmitting a detailed accounts
the expenses, the President said TIL
in view of the 200 per cent increa y
in prices in Paris, as the result of -
war he considered the expenses of q :
American peace mission very nodes
When it began it's work in Par =
the American delegation, the Preside
said consisted of 1900 persons. but 81
July this number had been reduced se
400 of whom only So were civilians.
President Wilson called attention
the fact that no action had been TAX
on the state departments request To-
an additional appropriation OF $4,000
600 for it's current expenses, and sa :
that as result the department HI
found 1t necessary to draw on Its eme
gency fund. He asked that the 5000
900 appropriation be made Immediate
The itemized list of expenses sus
mitted by the President was as fei
lows:
Expenses of the American commis
sion to negotiate peace:
Expenses from December l. 1918, e
June 80, 1919:
Travel and subsistence, $l5s43.4S.
Subsistence, $1A4,s14.03.
Salaries $1o3.so5.s5.
Wages to employees OF hotel Crillon
s53.s
Stationery, office supplies. printing
furniture and fixtures, repairs, news
papers and miscellaneous expenditures
$40,432.71.
Rents. $5,72o.os.
Food and hotel supplies, $12S, s2s.10.
Hire and laundry of hotel linens
$31.583.48.
Fuel, heat light and compressed air
$20,03s.7S.
Telephone. $16615
Inventories and legal services, So
| 32975.
| Special allotments to investigation
commissions dispatched to the Balti;
| provinces, Poland, Turkey. the Balkans
Russia and the Caucasu $105,6l0.26.
Confidential expenses sl3,5s7.ls
Purchase Of autom obiles. Sl4,6e2,ss
! Total, s704.s6S.31.
! Travelling expenses, stationery ans
/ supplies disbursements by the depart
! 00902
! Total, ST04.S. 1881.
| Reimbursement of the government
members OF the American commission Il
| negotiate peace on account of subsis-
| tcnce furnished their wives; official en-.
! tertanment by the Secretary Of STATE
| and Edward House; unexpended allot
ments and miscellaneous Items. he''
| 721.42.
! Total net expenses. December /, 1918
! to June so. 1919, exclusive Of the rem
4 of the Hotel Crillon and telegraph
| charges s6SG,1N.S9.
!. December /. 1918. to September 80
1912 including damages, the amount o.
which are not yet known approximate
ly 49,, 1000 monthly, s350.000
| Telegraph and cable service through
(, the war department bills not yet re
| ceived and amount not yet known
though the expense viii be large.
! Expenses of the commission from
! July l. 1919. to July 80, 1919. exclusive
of rent and telegraph service. $3.50.
! 62974
| Expenses of the commission from
| August l.. 1919 to August 81. 1919
| exclusive of rent and telegraph ser
vice. "estimat ted sl25,000.
| Expenses of the commission from
| September l. 1919. to December 81
1919 estimated for four months, $40,
| 900.
| Total estimated and actual liabilities
| so far as known to date, Sl,250.629.74
Less rental of the Hotel Crillon Il
| June 80, 1919. which is payable out o.
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