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Show EMERGENCY EUi IS FULLY ACCOUNTED FDR President Has $68,402,000 Out of $100,000,000 Still on Hand. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. An accounting' account-ing' to congress for the hundred - million -dollar war emergency fund placed In President Pres-ident Wilson's hands last April shows that the president has allotted to twenty-one twenty-one departments, bureaus and newly created cre-ated war bodies $31,597,000. of which 6. "1,000 has been spent. Congress now has been asked to make the remaining I JfiS, 402,000 available up to the close of the fiscal year next June instead of only to Pecemher 31, and today the house i appropriations committee favorably re-I re-I ported a bill for that purpose. I Five of the president's allotments were ! made under the head of "executive," for ! which no itemized disbursements were 'given. They were $1,30,000 for the committee com-mittee on public information. $3-10.000 lor preliminary work of the food administration. administra-tion. $23,000 for preliminary expenses of the fuel administration. ?2".0,o0u for the war trade board and 825,000 for administration ad-ministration of the priority in transportation transporta-tion law. The total for these items was $1 ,9fiu.0i'i0 and tiie disbursements J1.0;a.!f.4. In ad'lition to their preliminary funds, the food and fuel ad ministrations were allotted J-HKj, 00iJ for buildings, of whleh 2-10.000 has been disbursed, and S2.0"0,-0''0 S2.0"0,-0''0 for educational work, of which $Kf.,-000 $Kf.,-000 lias been spent. Two temporary allotments or loans to I the war department, aggregating $'i5j00,-OOO, $'i5j00,-OOO, were made, but the money was re- j turned when regular n ppropria t ions became be-came available, and the department rumbas rum-bas nothing charged against it from the fund. A temporary allotment of ?f.0"."i.(j wa; also made to the war rik insuian-.e bureau and SH'O.'Wi of it turned oer. to be repaid when premiums a-irumiilat e. Tn t h? seven months up to Le--:uber 7. when the report was compiled, 'he government gov-ernment spent $ 1 ,fi7:,.i'0fi f rom the emergency emer-gency fund for secret porvke arlivities find training information from abroad. The president granted ?2.20:!,000 for that purpose. Almost eighteen and a half millions wnt to the shipping board to rr-pfiir t-r-man and Austrian v--sjf:s f-c-.z'-n in Amer-ivan Amer-ivan ports when the T'ni'd S't a en-trii en-trii the war and. with the exception of ll, :::.('). all of it ha been turned over to the board. The fed e nil trad1 commission was allotted al-lotted '"'"J.'''"'0 ;n investigate '-opts and pi iics ni id no to the time the r'-- .or r was conduled had received ? : f r; , f,f Tli -oi; i:il of r,a t lor.al defer -sr. -rlr j:'2,.'0 allotterl to it and has sp'-nt na -'v all of the sum. Some of t '. ir.pt ;, n vh er- allot j-.tn : ; ? have hf-cn c-mh r .i r;i ti v,. -,- U,rc-f. ,-M ,i'r bursetr.nTs srn.il! sr. far include ;ie navv 'h-pan men t for r-xiet-n-'v work n 1 h ,j n ,.n t S'...s. fi-.n. drors-ment ?.: ..- intz-rior '.;-;irtni'-T't. ado; me-i t ?i f ; s; ,,, n -r,t S (.'-': . on, merce d"p ;r' mf-it, ai-;o:inr--!l s:-,: :.', .iKt-.,irs'--nn-,'-it j: l.i,,,f'.' arc! for dwtr!'..-;ti'ci r.f labor u:id-T ?: ;) .r,r d"pt) r: m'-.t. allot men t -.l-.'iuh d:i)urb--rr.ent ."."O'j. |