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were violating the requirement Of the
neutrality law that they register.
Secretary Hull said he had turned
over to the Attorney General for ZAP
propriate" action the names of 20 or
30. companies. Their names, among
which were one or two called i'm
portant," were withheld.
Clark. a member of the Munitions
Committee, told the Senate the COM
mittee's investigation was a worthy
effort to find basis for true neutral
1ty.
Byrnes Challenges Nye.
Taking the floor after Clark. Byrnes,
chairman Of the Committee on Con-
tingent Senate Expenses. challenged
the munitions investigators to put up
to the Senate whether the $4,000 or
$4,000 needed to complete their work
should be granted.
Nye said the committee would make
Its estimate after a week end confer
eace and present its request.
1T will be reported in five minutes"
Byrnes retorted.
Clark reviewed the findings Of the
committee and traced the financial
involvement of the United States in
the war during 1915 and 1916.
The Senate ire of Friday at dis
closure that the committee had used
$4,000 Of $4,000 allotted 1t by the
New York work-relief administration
was met by Clark with the assertion
there was mo improperly" in 1t.
1T is better for those on w. p. A.
projects to be engaged In useful work
than to be engaged in bo0ndoggling,"
he said.
Says Glass Is Always Indignant.
Referring to the Glass speech Of
Frida, Clark said the Virginian has
had q reputation of man who never
speaks except In terms of intense in
dignation."
He added:
1T is no reflection on President
Wilson, on Secretary of State Lansing,
nor upon any member of this Con-
gress who voted to take this country
into war to soberly and dispassionate-
" examine the facts Of the web Of
circumstances that dragged us into
the war that was followed by calam-
ity"
Glass cut in to assert there was mot
q fact stated in the summation of the
record" by Clark that Senators with
reasonable intelligence are not fully
aware of.
And it didn't require $l25, 900 or
IS cents to make that record available
to the Munitions Committee. All Of
US followed the circumstances Of that
period. All of us understood the in
tensive controversial nature Of diplo-
matte correspondence between the
United States and other countries"
While Nye said he was intent on
putting the Senate on record II it
chose to stop the investigation, he
faced q week end conference with his
committee divided, for Senator Pope,
Democrat. Of Idaho, who earlier broke
with the chairman, reiterated that he
and Senator George, Democrat, Of
Georgia. would vote against requesting
more money beyond the $l25.000
already exhausted.
THE value of the services of the
committee is now over" Pope said.
Whether actual prosecution will be
started against the munitions con-
Germs, names of which were turned
over to the Justice Department, was
said by Secretary Hull to depend upon
what the Justice Department finds to
BE- the actual present status of the
firms.
Hull said some companies may have
ceased operations entirely or divested
themselves Of the munitions phase Of
their business.
n penalty Of $4,000 fine or i'm
prisonment for five years, or both, is
Drovided for violations Of the registra-
ton section Of the act.
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