Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-16
APPROVED BY THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
FEW CHANGES MADE
Make it Possible for Nom
reserve Member Banks to
Take Money.
PUBLICITY BUREAU
HOLDS A MEETING
To Determine upon Manner
of Releasing" Import
ant News.

Washington. April 16.-The $1,000
100000 war revenue bill, which has
passed the house. was approved today
by the senate finance committee and
will be taken up in the senate tomor-
row for passage.
Passage of the bill by tomorrow
with almost no opposition was expect
ed when the senate finance committee
met to consider the measure as it
came from the house which passed it
Saturday.
War taxation. navy and army,
espionage. and financial and industrial
mobilization bills are among the war
measures which both houses are to
push through quickly on the heels Of
the big bond act.
The committee vote was unanimous
and senate leaders expect to make an
effort to put the bill through in one
session.
the bill as it came from the house.
One Is in the title to make more APP
parent Its purpose of assisting in the
prosecution of the war. another is to
permit funds raised under the meas
ure to be deposited in banks not
members Of the federal reserve system
and in trust companies third is to
more clearly exempt certificates Of
indebtedness from taxation.
Publicity Bureau.
Washington. April 16.-Secretaries
Lansing, Baker and Daniels and
George Creel, who compose the new
governments publicity bureau Great
ed by President Wilson. met today to
map out a course of action.
The primary purpose of the bureau,
1t was stated. was to profit Immediate
iy by the mistakes made abroad in
| imposing military censorship at the
beginning of the war. and to open to
the public all proper information as
to what the government is doing or
intends to do. y
|, There will be no effort to withhold
any information except such, as, tn
the judgment Of the press itself, it
ory relation with the press repre-
sentatives in Washington will be es-
| tablished to secure that end.
| Indications are that no attempt at
direct censorship will be made. The
bureau will formulate, after confer
ence with the newspaper men here. a
set OF regulations for the guidance Of
newspaper editors which. it is believ-
| ed. will be so clear and impose so few
restrictions that there can be no mis-
take as to their meaning. 1t will be
left for the papers, themselves, to
comply and there is no plan for
watching the columns of the press.
South American Proposal.
| Prompt endorsement from South
America of the action of the United
States in taking up Germanys chal-
lenge to war is the source of great
qualification to officials of the admin
istratlon. There remained today but
three countries-Ecuador. Venezuela
and Colombia-which had not defined
their positions and it was believed
that before the end Of the week they,
too. would respond.
With the exception of Costa Rica.
none OF the Central American group
had declared its attitude. but no con-
Germ over where their sympathy will
be placed has been felt at the state
department.
! Embargo Bill.
With the approval of the admins
tration. Chairman Adamson of the
house conference committee today in
troduced a war embargo bill to en-
power the president to forbid exports
OF any sort which he deems it in the
public interest to do So