Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-07
CABINET OFFICERS
| URGE RESTORATION
| TO FORDNEY BILL
Weeks and DENLY Tell Senate
Committee They Deem
Measure Essential.
POINT TO WORLD WAR
PREPARATIONS BY HUNS
Assert Easier to Raise Army of
100000 Than to Furnish
Necessary Explosives.
HELP MANUFACTURE HERE
Head OF Navy Predicts Increased
Use of Gases in Next
War.
POINT TO WORLD WAR
PREPARATIONS BY HUNS
HELP MANUFACTURES HERE
Head OF Navy Predicts Increased
Use of Gases in Next
War.
Try Associated rressl

WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.-Secre,arIes
"ee"s ana DENNY hnve come out in
support OF an embargo on dyes and
chemicals and have urged restoration
70 the Fordncy tariff bin OF the en-
barge provision. stricken out by the
h"nsc The attitude OF the two Cabi
net officers was made known today
"hon Chairman pcnrosc. OF the sen.
ate Finance Committee. made public
letters from them TO the committee
on the subject
Ihe Cabinet officers explained that
thcy favored an embargo because OF
national defense needs.
III Is OF great value to the navy"
MI. DENLY wrote. TO encourage tho
d"veiopmcut OF chemical activities In
'fe manufacture OF al! products con-
rccich with explosives and gases. as
vcc,a!ly those manufacturers whose
establishments can easily be diverted
=. the manufacture OF war materials
Tho restoration or the embargo clause
VII he 81 material help and I Viii
greatly appreciate your assistance TO
,his effect"
Other Nations Enforce Embnrgncs
Embargo orders have been found
necessary 10y England. France. Italy
hnd Japan. Mr. Weeks said. lie also
declared that the chemical Industry
vas vital 10 Germany in pro!ong;ns
her efforts in the world war and cx-
pressed the opinion that higt ~
riosivcs ana war Eases would play n
oar more Important part in future
wars.
In the world war. he said. the
United states had found i, could
mobilize. train and equip with cloth
!ne 100000 men FAR quicker than it
could supply the guns and ammun!-
ton He related how the munitions
raHcrs had worked fevcrishiy to sup
iHy the munitions and war gases. add
iu. that even then. little was avail
able for more than a year after the
formal declaration Of war.
Has One Great Trust.
80 fully did Germany realize be.
fure, during and after the world
war ne continued. that prcdomi-
n.ncc in the organic chemical indus
Try. and particularly the dye indus
Try mean, the most valuable measure
a. preparedness possible, that she has
United all her organic chcmica. in
Gustr.cs into one great trust
The use OF high explosives and
war gases viii unqucstionably he far
greater in any future struggle than
In the world war. II is OF the most
vita! importanc" TO our preparedness
thut the dyc industry be developed 10
tho iulles;t possible extent in this
country II is felt that this danger
Is % great that | urge the enactment
of the embargo feature OF the Ford
ncy tarin bill as submitted by the
Ways and Means Committee as the
only way to protect our chemical
market from German competition"
VIII Get Down to Brass TackS.
Majority members OF the House
Ways and Means Committee expect
to re, down to brass lacks of tax
revision next week.
Chairman Fordney said today that
the rewriting OF levy provisions In
the 1918 law probably would begin
Monday. and that unless an unexpect-
I'd snag was encountered. the new
Iii! SHOULD he ready within ten days.
Leaders, generally say House consid :
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