New Britain herald., 1915-01-04
URGE BAN ON EXPORTS
 OF WAR MATERIALS .Ccrman-bmeriC3n Alliance and A. 0. H. Favor Pending Resolutions. CLAIM ALLIES ONLY BENfFlClAR|ES House Foreign Affairs Committee Told That the Principal Evil Growing Out of the Situation Is the Damage Being Done to Our Commerce.

Washington, Jan. 4.-Delegations from New York, Philadelphia, Chica- go and Baltimore, among them repre- sentatives of the German-American Alliance and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, appeared today before the house foreign affairs committee to favor pending congressional resolu- tions to stop exportation of war ma- terials to the belligerents. c. J. Hex amor of Philadelphia, president of the German Am erican Alliance, presented memorials adopted by that organiza- tion in many states, urging the adop- ton of one of the resolutions.
 ''The prin cipal evil growing out of the situation is the damage being done to our commerce. he said. We should have an immediate inquiry by a special commerce commission into our trade with European countries. We should demand that our neutral trade be allowed to go without inter ference, and that England be not al- lowed to prevent us from sending ar ticles that are of no direct use in war to Italy, Holland Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland or any other country that desires to buy our goods Some way shouldstbe found to raise stheY em bargo on the re-eXpQrta- tion of our goods from these coun- tries to the civil population of Ger many and Austria which has been op- posed by England.
 Allies Only Beneficiaries.
 ''But the first thing to be done is to prohibit the exportation of arms and ammunition Only England and her friends can benefit by our unholy comm cree in war materials. Every dollar made by a few manufacturers of war supplies is tainted with blood from the field of battle."
 Horace l.. Brand of Chicago, chair man of the central legislation commit tee of the alliance, told the committee that only by prohibiting the war ex- ports could the United States live up to real neutrality
 Means to Solve Difficulties.
 Theodore Sutro of New York urged the resolutions as a means of solving present difficulties with Great Britain over American shipping.
 Forbid the exportation of all arms
 
 trs band," he said. "and you will re- move the excuse for the British con- duct which called forth the note of protest recently sent to London.''
 Others in the delegation were: Henry Weisemann, Brooklyn; AL Phonse G. Koelble, New York; Karl M. Scholtz, John Tiarka. Albert l.. Fankhanel and Dr. Julius Hoffmann of Baltimore; the Rev. George Von Posse, John B. Mayer, Adolph Timm, Joseph Mclaughlin. and Francis $. Clark of Philadelphia; F. H. O'Don- nell of Chicago.
 Letter Written by Hexamor.
 Resolutions presented by the German-Ame erican Alliance delegation included a letter written by MT. Hexamor to President Wilson dated December g, Gin the interest of neu- trality,' saying that one of the na- tions engaged in the war could get munitions from this country.
 "Our failure in keeping strict neu- trality becomes thereby,' the letter continued, "an unfriendly if not in- imical act against one particular nation.'
 Arouses German Americans
 You cannot imagine, MT. Presi- dent," he wrote, with what chagrin and bitterness it fills the Americans of German descent to see the resources of this great country which they have helped to build up, placed at the dis ICsa1 of enemies who, with their overwhelming forces have proclaimed it their avowed purpose to crush our ancestral home
 ''Since the attitude of our gOvern- ment ena ablcs England to cut off, against our own interests, even the most necessary supplies from the civil population of certain countries do you not think, MT. President, that thereby the assertions that the neu- tra lity of the United States is only a matter of form and does not exist, as +S rJ