The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-29
WAR ON DRUGS
. IS RESUMED by
HOUSELEADERS
British Opposition Blocked
Arms Meet Action, Congress-
man Porter Declares.
KAHN RESOLUTION REVIVED
Measure Would Have U. s. Call
International Farley to Crush
Dread Traffic.
BY Universal Service.

BY Universal Service.
The Kahn resolution to end the
international traffic In habit-form-
tng drugs will be pressed in Con-
gross Immediately after the WASH
ington Conference on Limitation of
I Armaments adjourns, Chairman
Porter, of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, announced yesterday.
British Oppose Action.
Hr. Porter and others interested In
the Kahn measure have been unsuo.
cessful In their efforts to secure &C
ton by the Washington conference
70 end the evil. principally because of
the opposition Of the British dele
gates. Il became known today.
The Kahn resolution would request
President Harding to take the initia-
tive In calling an international con.
ferencs that would complete the agree
sDpent projected at the Hague In 1911.
psndsr which every nation In the
World was to have subscribed TO an
agreemsnt to abolish the international
traffic In drugs.
me measure was introduced by
CONGRESSMAN Kahn Of california
esyiy In the present session. It was
esferred TO the House Foreign AZ.
~
naiDed pigeon-holed ever since.
Chairman Porter Of the commit.
tas also Is chairman OF the Far Eastern
subcommittee Of the American ad-
vioory committee Of the conference.
He has had personal talks with most
e the delegates. He said today, with
D view to initiating action before the
representatives Of the nine nations
now at Washington leave for home.
Mr.. Porter said that his efforts to
secure support for reviving the
The conference did abolish the for.
slgn postoffices in China. through
which much of the habit forming
drugs that have flooded China In re-
eant years have been distributed. But
this was included in the agenda Of
the conference. The conference del
sgatss declined, he said. to do any.
thing more than that.
The efforts Of Mr.. Porter and others
VITO have interested themselves In
the movement to abolish the drug
Svfi, to have the Washington confer.
eacs do something in the matter, dis
closed. he said. the following:
Hits Indian Monopoly.
The British delegates opposed any
move that would interfere with the
drug producing industry Of India, In
which the British government has q
usonopoly.
Srinivasa sastri, delegate to the
conference from India, made saving
the drug industry Of India his princi-
pal mission In Washington.
India Ia the source OF supply Of
most Of the raw materials from which
hst,tt- forming drugs are manufacture
%, end II developed In the discus.
Sions Mr.. Porter and others held
during the Warrington conference,
that Great Britain was extremely
anxious to save thar industry.
The raw materials are shipped
from India by the British government
TO the United States, Germany, Eng.
Land, and Scotland, and there manu-.
featured into the drugs. The manu-
hctured drugs are then exported
chiefly to Canada and from there
pent TO Mexico. Japan ana other coun-
trios, from which they are smuggled
into the United States and other ma
tons where the traffic Is restricted
~ law.
Committee would press the Kahn resor
don soon after the adjournment Of
To arms conference, Chairman Por-
ter said that all Of these facts will
BE- fully brought out and substanti-
afed when the measure comes before
Probe Whole Subject.
'"The committee, II present plans
are carried out. will conduct
thorough investigation of the whole
subject first" said Mr.. Porter. Such
an investigation should not take
long, as we already have many facts.
When the preliminary Investigation