The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-06-20

Text of the amendments to the
Espionage Act reported to the Sem
ate and House of Representatives by
the conference committee, April %,
1918. And is now the law of the
land.
An Act to amend section three,
title one, of the Act entitled, "An
Act to punish acts of interference
with the foreign relations, the neu-
trality, and the foreign commerce of
the United States, to punish es-
pionage, and better to enforce the
criminal laws of the United States,
and for other purposes" approved
June Is, 1917, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That section three
of title one of the Act entitled "An
Act to punish acts of interference
with the foreign relations, the neu-
trality, and the foreign commerce of
the United States, to punish espion-
age, and better to enforce the Grim
inal laws of the United States, and
for other purposes" approved June
18th, nineteen hundred and seventeen,
be, and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. Whoever, when the Unit
ed States is at war, shall willfully
make or convey false reports or
false statements with intent to in
terfere with the operation or sue
cess of the military or naval forces
of the United States, to to promote
the success of its enemies or shall
willfulIy make OF convey false re-
ports, or say or do anything ex-
cept by way of bona fide and not
disloyal advice to an investor or
investors, with intent to obstruct
the sale by the United States OF
Bonds or other securities of the
United States or the making of
loans by or to the United States,
and whoever, when the United States
is at war, shall willfully cause or at
tempt to cause, or incite or attempt
to incite, INSTRUMENTATION, disloyalty,
mutiny, or refusal of duty in the
military or naval forces of the
United States, or shall willfully OBJ
struct, or attempt to obstruct, the
recruiting or enlistment service of
the United States, and whoever,
when the United States is at war
shall willfully utter, print, write, or
publish any disloyal, profane, sour
rilous, or abusive language about
the form of government of the Unit
ed States, or the constitution of the
United States, or the military or
naval forces of the United States,
or the flag of the United States,
or the uniform of the army or navy
of the United States, or any Ian
guage intended to bring the form
of government of the United States.
or the constitution of the United
States, or the military or naval
forces of he United States, or the
flag of the United States, or the
uniform of the army or navy of the
United States into contempt, scorn,
contumely, or disrepute, or shall
willfully utter, print, write, or pub
lish any language intended to incite,
provoke, or encourage resistance to
the United States, or to promote the
cause of its enemies, or shall will
fully display the flag of any foreign
enemy, or shall willfully by utter
ance, writing, printing, publication,
or language spoken, urge, incite, or
advocate any curtailment of pro-
duction in this country of any thing
or tnlngS, product or products, neces-
sary or essential to the prosecution
Of the war in which the United
States may be engaged, with intent
by such curtailment to cripple or
hinder the United States in the pros
ecution of the war, and whoever
shall willfully advocate, teach, de-
fend, or suggest the doing of any
of the acts or things in this section
enumerated, and whoever shall by
word or act support or favor the
cause of the German empire or its
allies in the present war or by
word or act oppose the cause of
the United States therein, shall be
punished by fine of not more than