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Show "Keep in Line, Gentiemen; No Crowding!" This commission has Just, been o ganlzed, following continuation by the senate of the nominations of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Representa-tive Theodore Burton of Ohio as members mem-bers who, with Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Mellon, Secretary of State Hughes, and Secretary of Commerce Hoover constitute the commission. Preliminary steps In each case will be negotiated by the commission with each of the big debtor governments through regular diplomatic channels, but eventually the larger nations expect ex-pect to send commissions of fiscal experts ex-perts and government officials to Washington to complete the funding operations. The obligations of foreign govern-, ments ore of four sources those held for advances made under the various Liberty bond acts, 59.434,774,820.24; those received from the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy on account of sales of surplus war materials, mate-rials, $574,673,710.21 ; those received from the American rejlef administration, administra-tion, .$84,093,()ti3.65 and those held by the United States Grain corporation, $50,858,802.49 a total of $10,150,401,-305.49. TXTASHINQTON. The government - v v of the United States, after prolonged pro-longed delay, Is ready to sit around a table with the representatives of 18 foreign nations which owe It $11,500,-000,000 $11,500,-000,000 In principal and Interest, to discuss the funding of this tremendous war debt. Up to this time this great obligation has merely been acknowledged by the debtor nations. It has never been placed In the form of obligations or securities. se-curities. - Now the government is going to get down to the task of whipping the huge debt Into shape for proper handling. The task Is variously referred to as the "funding" or the "refunding" of the debts. It has been placed by congress con-gress In the hands of a commission |