Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
EMBARGO PLACED
ON j. s. PRODUCTS
PRESIDENT TO PUT INTO EFFECT
LAW FURTHER TO GRIP
PIE OUR FOES.
NEW PROCLAMATION
Foods. Fuel, Steel and Other Articles
to Be Sold Abroad Must Bear v.
S..license-All Facts Bearing
on Shipments to Be Given.

Washington. = Government control
of American exports, authorized in
a provision of the espionage act. was
ordered put into operation July Is by
President Wilson Sunday in a procla-
nation requiring the licensing of all
shipments to countries of the most
important export commodities.
The Proclamation.
The presidents proclamation, after
quoting the law empowering the gov
eminent to take control of exports,
says:
II hereby proclaim to all whom 1t
may concern that, except at such
time or times and under such regu.
lations and orders and subject to such
limitations and exceptions as the
president shall prescribe, until other
wise ordered by the president, or by
the congress-, the following articles.
namely: Coal, coke, fuel oils, kero-
sene and gasoline. including bunkers;
food grains, flour and meal there.
from, fodder and feeds, meats and
fats; pig iron, steel billets, ship
plates and structural shapes scrap
iron and scrap steel; ferro mangan.
ese; fertilizers; arms, ammunition
and explosives; shall not, on and af.
ter the 18th day Of July, 1917, be car.
ried out Of or exported from the Uni
ted States or its territorial posses
sions to any foreign country.
"The orders and regulations from
time to time prescribed will be ad'
ministered by and under the author
ity Of the secretary of commerce
from whom licenses. in conformity
with the said orders and regulations
will issue.
Must Guard Home Supplies.
"In controlling by license the ex
port of certain indispensable commod'
tiles from the United States the gov
eminent has first and chiefly in view
the amelioration of the food condi
tions which have arisen, or are like
ly to arise, fin our own country be
fore new crops are harvested. Mo-
only is the conservation Of our prime
food and fodder supplies a matter
which vitality concerns our wi PEG
pie, but the retention of an adequate
supply of raw materials Is essentia
to our program Of military and nava
construction and the continuance Of
our necessary domestic activities. We
shall, therefore, similarly safeguard
all our fundamental supplies.
'It is obviously the duty of the
United States in ~liberating any sur
plus products over and above oul
own domestic needs, to consider frs
the necessities Of all the nations en-
gagged in var against the central EN-
pires. As to neutral nations, how
ever, we also recognize Il duty. TIL,
government does not wish to hampe
them. On the contrary, 1t wishes ant
intends. by all fair and equitable
means to cooperate with them il
their difficult task Of adding from
our available surpluses to their owl
domestic supply and of meeting thei
pressing necessities or deficits. Il
considering the deficits Of food sur
plies, the government means only t,
fulfil its obvious obligation to assur
itself that neutrals are h%usbandini
their own resources, and that our SUI
plies will not become available, ETH
er directly or indirectly, to feed tn
enemy"