Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-10-19
WILSON WAR ACT
SETS FOE APART
UNDER new LAW
Drastic Measures in ProClama-
ton Aimed Against Germany
and Her Allies.
BOARDS GIVEN MUCH POWER
Both War Trade Board and War Trade
Council Practically Without Re-
striction as to Their Acts
Exports of Gold Barred.

StrICtIon as TO helr ACtS-
Exports of Gold Barred.
Washington. - Tremendous powers
and responsibilities are placed in the
hands of two executive boards by a
proclamation issued by President Will
son, putting into effect the purposes
of the trading with the enemy act
passed at the war session of congress.
The proclamation:
BY virtue of the authority vested in me
by IAN Act to Define, Regulate and
Punish Trading With the Enemy and for
Other Purposes" approved October s,
1917, and by title VII of the act approved
June 10, 1917, entitled IAN Act to Punish
Acts of Interference With the Foreign
Relations, the Neutrality and the Foreign
Commerce of the United States, to Pun
ish Espionage and Better to Enforce the
Criminal Laws of the United States and
for Other Purposes Hereinafter desig-
mated as the espionage acD, hereby
make the following orders and rules and
regulations:
WAR TRADE BOARD.
I hereby establish war trade board
TO be composed of representatives, re-
spectively, of the secretary of state, of
Tic S6CIGlaTy Oh the treasury, Ol Tic SCC-
= rotary of agriculture, of the secretary OF
commerce, Of the food administrator and
of the United States shipping board.
1 hereby vest in said board the power
and authority to issue licenses under such
terms and conditions as are not incon-
sistent with law or to withhold or re-
fuse licenses for the expectation of all
articles except coin, bullion or currency,
the expectation or taking of which out
of the limited States hQ restricted nv
proclamations heretofore or hereafter is
sued by me under said title VII of the
espionage act.
l further hereby vest in said war trade
board the power and authority to issue
upon such terms and conditions as are
not inconsistent with law or to withhold
or refuse licenses for the Importation Of
all articles, the importation of which may
be restricted by any proclamation here
after issued by me under section IL OF
the trading with the enemy act.
further hereby vest in said war trade
board the power and authority not vested
in other officers by subsequent provisions
of this order, to issue under such terms
and conditions as are not inconsistent
with law or to withhold or refuse licenses
to trade either directly or indirectly with,
to or from, or for, or on account of or on
behalf of or for the benefit of, any other
person with knowledge or reasonable
cause to believe that such other person
is an enemy or an ally of enemy or is
conducting or taking part in such trade
directly or indirectly for or on account
of, or on behalf of or for the benefit of,
an enemy or ally of enemy.
I further hereby vest in said war trade
board the power and authority, under
such terms and conditions as are not in
consistent with law, to issue to every
enemy or ally of enemy, other than enc
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surance companies, doing business within
the United States through an agency or
branch office, or otherwise applying
therefor within 80 days of October 6, 1917,
licenses temporary or otherwise to con-
tinue to do business, or said board may
withhold or refuse the same.
And / further hereby vest in said war
trade board the executive administration
of the provisions of section CD Of the
trading with the enemy act, relative to
granting licenses to enemies and enemy
allies, to assume or use other names than
those by which they were known at the
beginning of the war, and I hereby au-
thoriZe said board to issue licenses not
inconsistent with the provisions of law
or to withhold or refuse licenses to any
enemy or ally of enemy or partnership
of which an enemy or ally Of enemy is
member or was member at the begin
ming of the war to assume or use any
name other than by which such enemy
or ally of enemy or partnership was or
dinarily known at the beginning OF the
war.
/ hereby revoke the executive order Of
August 81, 1917 creating the exports adj
ministrative board. All proclamations,
rules, regulations and instructions made
or given by me under title VII of the
espionage act and now being administered
by the exports administrative board are
confirmed and made n.
plicable to the war trade board and all
employees of the export administrative
board are hereby transferred to and con-
stituted employees Of the war trade
board in the same capacities, and said
war trade board is hereby authorized to
exercise without interruption the powers
heretofore exercised by said exports ad-
ministrative board.
The said war trade board is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to take all such
measures as may be necessary or expe-
dent to administer the powers hereby
conferred And hereby vest in the war
trade board the power conferred upon the
inresident by section (A) to make such
rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with law, as may be necessary and prop
er for the exercise of the power con-
lferred upon said board.
WAR TRADE COUNCIL.
hereby establish war trade council,
to be composed Of the secretary. or state,
secretary Of the treasury, secretary of
agriculture, secretary of commerce, the
food administrator and the chairman of
tina shipping board, and hereby author
4ze and direct the said war trade council
thus constituted to act in an advisory
capacity in such matters under said acts
as may be referred to it by the president
of the war trade board.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
I hereby vest in the secretary of the
treasury the executive administrator Oh