Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-16
WILSON ASKED TO SHOW HOW BIZ WAR FUND
 WAS EXPENDED
Flav Resolution As Last Attempt G. O. P.
 To Discredit Wilson
DEBATE GROWS HOT
Request For Itemized. -Ac- count Of Paris Expen-
 seS Is Denounced

| WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-After heated debate the house late today adopted a resolution calling upon President Wilson for an itemized state ment showing disbursements and aI- lotments of the Sl5O,OOO,OO war funds voted by congress.
 The resolution, adopted 21l to 79. was attacked by Democrats. who charged it was put forward to defame and malign President Wilson before closing of his administration. The ref erence to expenditures by the Amer jean peace commission at Paris famed the flames on the Democratic side and turned the debate into partisan chan nels.
 Chairman Good, of the appropriation committee, who reported the resolu- tiOn, introduced by Representative Gould. Republican of New York, de- clared if any injustice had been done the president the Democrats were responsible by attempting to create impression that there was something crooked in the money spending" when the resolution did not intimate that there had been anything improper. Good declined to offer an amendment calling on government departments for an accounting.
 Representative EyTnes, Democrat of Tennessee, declared that while he had no objection 10 adoption of the reso- lution, he thought the information should be sought from the various de partments.
 The president, he said, had nothing 10 do with the actual spending. that more than four-fifths of the fund had been accounted for, and that it was merely an attempt to make it appear he was unwilling to present the rec ord
 .''The Ameyican people will never forget the great achievements of name will fill the brightest pages ot history after his detractors are dead and forgotten"
 Representative Rogers, Republican of Massachusetts, attacked reported expenditures of the peace commission at the Hotel Crillon in Paris, calling attention to an item Of S125.GOO for damage to the hotel property.
 The acting secretary of state was unable to give details of the Paris eN- penditures," he said. Wages of hotel employees amounted to S131 % and We had 10 pay for their food. There was another item of $14.00O for automo- piles, when the streets of Paris were overrun with American cars. Confi- dental expenses of the presidential party were put down at $17,534. Why should there be confidential expenses ot a president to negotiate on the part of the people treaty of peace? Representatives Byrnes. Couth Car olina, and de Walt, Pennsylvania, Democrats, assailed the resolution. Byrnes insisting congress after the Spanish war. did not attempt to in suit Mckinley" Byrnes said he did not believe sthere was a man small enough to question the honesty of the president"
 T charge that the purpose of this resolution" said de Walt, ''is to de fame and malisn Pres.aent Wilson" And here you come" he continued turning to the Republicans. with a resolution to examine his laundry bnls."
  Representative Rayburn, Democrat of Texas, said:
 Tin the If years of my legislative service. 1 have not only seen some pretty small men and some pretty small acts. but never have l seen so small a performance as that enacted g moment ago. It is astounding that a man in great legislative Dody, sup posed to be here for great purpose, should ask about laundry bills. and what time of night the chandeliers were damaged. when in that building was the man holding the highest oi- flee in the United States. In Gods name. when will small mean cease this campaign of islander and abuse on the retiring president The big men oi the Republican party never engaged ] in it"
 The Democratic attack on this measure does the president an injus- uce." Good declared. In my mind you ? have created the impression that there was something crooked. when no charges are made. Thank God it was
 not the Republicans who Questiont