Evening star., 1920-04-01

cia1 assistance or supplies to the Ger
man government or the inhabitants or
Germany. directly or indirectly, by the
! government or the inhabitants of the
United States, shall except with the
license of the President, be prohibited.
Section 4. That whoever shall will
fully violate the foregoing prohibi-
t1on. whenever the same shall be in
not more than $4,000, or. II a natural
person. imprisoned for not more than
two years. or both: and the officer, di
rector or agent of any corporation
who. knowingly. participates in such
violation shall be punished by a like
nne. imprisonment. or both. and any
property, funds. securities. papers or
other articles or documents. or any
vessel. together with her tackle, ap-
parel. furniture and equipment. con-
cerned IN such violation. shall be for
feited to the United States.
Section 5. That nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed as a waiver
by the United States of its rights.
privileges. indemnities. reparations
or advantages to which the United
States has become entitled under the
terms of the armistice signed No
Vember II. 1918. or which were ac-
1uired by or are in the possession of
the United States by reason OF its par
ticlpation in the war or otherwise.
and all fines. forfeitures. penalties and
United States are hereby ratified. con-
nrmed and maintained"
Five-Hour Conference Held.
Republican members of the foreign
affairs committee. to which the reso-
luton was referred without COM
ment. worked in conference for more
than five hours before they mapped
out a measure designed to overcome
all party objections .,
Leaders declared tho renuh1icapa
would vote solidly for the resolution.
winch, they held, should meet the
approval of the State Department.
since 1t did not declare peace. but
SIMPLY an end to an existing state of
war.
Overriding OF Veto Predicted.
Democrats, on the other hand. con-
rested solely with the executive
branch of the government The GER
tainty of a presidential veto was
pointed out. hut Chairman Porter
predicted that in that event there
would be no difficulty in obtaining the
necessary two-thirds vote to pass 1t
over the veto.
After Chairman Campbell of the
rules committee had announced that
the resolution would be taken up
for debate. democrats objected and
asked for more time in which Ito
study and digest the full text" This
resulted in a hasty conference be.
tween the republican steering COM
mittee and minority leaders.
Repealed Wartime Acts.
Republican leaders said the more
important wartime acts and powers
which would be repealed automatical-
ly with passage of the resolution in
clude:
Wartime prohibition. Lever food
and fuel control law. with provisions
against prof1reering: espionage act.
selective service law, authorization
for loans of 10000. 100000 to the al
lies, complete control over all ship
ping. authorization for President to
use armed forces to prevent tnterfer-
ence with interstate or foreign COM
merce. licensing the use of explosives,
authorization Of a system OF priority
shipments, authorization OF an EN-
ployment service In Labor Depart
ment. contfol over patents, war hotls-
ing act. az moratorium protecting CIVIL
rights of men while in the service and
authorization of an embargo on i'm
ports in the discretion Of the Presi-
dent.
The trading -with-the-enemy act
would be continued until Germany
agrees to provisions of the resolu-
tion. The emergency shipping act.
the Overman act giving the President
the power to distribute executive pow
ers as he desires and the act creating
the War Finance Corporation and the
capital issues committee expire six
months after declaration of peace.