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\ 63d Congress, [ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Document 
 
 / U Session. j I No. 1137. 
 
 RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. 
 
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 MESSAGE 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 
 
 BECOMMENDING 
 
 P^SAGE BY CONGRESS OF ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION EOR 
 \ RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, ETC. 
 
 August 4, 1914. — Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to 
 
 be printed. 
 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives : 
 
 After further consideration of the existing condition in Europe 
 in so far as it is affecting citizens of the United States who are there 
 without means, financial or otherwise, to return to their homes in 
 this country, it seems incumbent upon the Government to take steps 
 at once to provide adequate means by the chartering of vessels or 
 otherwise of bringing Americans out of the disturbed region and 
 conveying them to their homes in the United States. Moreover, in 
 view of the difficulty of obtaining money upon letters of credit, with 
 which most Americans abroad are supplied, it will be necessary to 
 send agents abroad with funds which can be advanced on such evi- 
 dences of credit, or used for the assistance of destitute citizens of the 
 United States. 
 
 In these circumstances I recommend the immediate passage by the 
 Congress of an act appropriating $2,500,000, or so much thereof as 
 may be necessary, to be placed at the disposal of the President, for 
 the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens and 
 for personal services, rent, and other expenses which may be incurred 
 in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, connected with, or growing 
 out of, the existing disturbance in Europe. 
 
 WooDRow Wilson. 
 
 The White House, August Ji.^ 1911^.. 
 
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