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Show Rathbone Named By the President On a Commission ON BOARD PRESIDENT WILSONS WIL-SONS SPECIAL TRAIN. Sept. 23. Albert Rathbone, assistant secre'ary of the treasury in ehnrge of the farm loan bureau, has been commissioned by President Wilson Io act for the American government in the financial rehabilitation measures to be taken In Europe growing out of the peace settlement. It Is understood Mr. Rathbone will he associated in an unofficial capacity i with the reparations commission which is set up by the peace trc:-ty to nave charge of rehabilitation m.is ures and of the collection of Germany's Ger-many's indemnity I'nder the treaty there will ho an ! American member of the commission, I but an amendment pendinu in the Ben-ate Ben-ate would greatly curtail his power Several weeks ago the president asked the approval of the foreign relations committee for selection of an Amerl- can representative to sit with 'he com-1 mission tentatively while the treaty (awaits ratification, but the committee replied that in Its opinion there was I no authority for making such an p-1 p-1 pointment, oo |