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ASK WILSON FOR
WAR ACCOUNTING
House Wants Itemized State
ment Of Disbursements.
SEE INSULT TO PRESIDENT
Democrats Charge Move to Defame
Him in Closing Days of Admins
TRITON

Democrats Charge Move to Defame
Him in Closing Days of Admins
TRITON.
Washington, Feb. 16.-After heated
debate the house adopted It resolution
calling upon President Wilson for an
itemiZed statement showing disburse-
ments and allotments of the $3.50. 600
600 war funds voted by congress.
The resolution, which was adopted,
211 to 30, was attacked by Democrats,
who charged that it was put forward
at this time to defame and malign
President Wilson in the closing DAYS
of his administration Reference to
expenditures by the American peace
commission at Paris famed the flames
on the Democratic side, and turned
the debate into strictly partisan chan
nelS.
Chairman Good, of the apprOpria-
lions committee, who reported the
resolution introduced by Representa-
tive Gould, Republican, New York, de-
clared that If any injustice had been
done the president the Democrats were
responsible, by attempting to create
the impression that there was some
thing crooked In the money spending"
when the resolution itself did not in
innate that there had been anything
improper. Mr.. Good declined to offer
an amendment calling upon the various
government departments for an ac-
counting, which was the method adopt,
ed, Democrats stated, in asking for an
accounting of Spanish war funds In
President McKinley's day
After the chairman had made a pre-
liminary statement as to what had
been shown by partial reports of ex-
penditures, Representative Byrns.
Democrat, Tennessee, declared that
while he had no objection to adoption
of the resolution, he thought the in
formation should be sought from de-
partments to which the money had
been allotted. The president, he said
had nothing to do with the actual
spending: that more than fOur-fifthe
of the fund had been accounted for
and that 1t was merely an attempt Il
make 1t appear he was unwilling Il
present the record
''The American people will never for
get the great achievements OF Wood
row Wilson," said Mr. Byrns. and
lis name will fill the brightest pages
OF history after his detractorS are
dead and forgotten"
Representative Rogers, Republican.
Massachusetts, attacked reported ex-
penditures of the peace commission
at the Hotel Crillon, in Paris, calling
attention specially to an item of 1925
0nn for damage to the hotel property.
He said he did not know if chande-
Tiers were In the damaged list, or at
what hour of the morning they might
have been broken.
The acting secretary of state was
unable to give details of the Paris ex-
penditures," Mr.. Rogers said. wages
of hotel employees amounted to S131,-
600, and we had to pay for their food.
There was another Item of $4,000
for automobiles, when the streets of
Paris were everrun with American
cars. Confidential expenses of the
presidential party were put down at
$17,534. Why should there be conf
Dental expenses of a president to ne
gotfate on the part of the people q
treaty of peace?
Turning upon Representative R0g-
crat, Texas, said:
I'm the fourteen years of my legis-
lative service I have seen some pretty
small men and some pretty small acts,
but never in that time have I seen so
small performance as that enacted a
moment ago by the gentleman from
Massachusetts. Last fall 1 was sur
prised and shocked that the presidents
personal life and character should be
dragged through the mire and the
heart in his emaciated frame wrung
by the SANDER. I wondered then
where they came from, and l wonder
now If they originated in Massachu-
sets. It is astounding that a man in
q great legislative body, supposed to
be here for great purpose, should
ask about laundry bills, and what
time of night the hotel chandeliers
were damaged. when in that building
was the man holding the highest Of
flee in the United States. In Gods
name, when will small men cease this
campaign of SANDER and abuse on the
retiring president? The big men of
the Republican party never engaged
in it. They may differ as to questions
of great policy, but it never allowed
them to stoop to defamation of char
acter."