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Calendar No. 115.
'f5TTH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. No. 113.
AN ACT TO DEFINE, REGULATE, AND RUNIS.f IRAD]DJNG
WITH THE ENEMY, AND FOR OTHER IW SE9.
AUGUST 15 (calendar day, AUGUST 31), 1917.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. RANSDELL, from the Committee on Commerce, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 4960.]
The Committee on Commerce, to whom was recommitted the bill
(H. R. 4960) to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy,
and for other purposes, having had the same under consideration,
report it again back with sundry amendments and recommend that
the bill as now amended do pass.
Your committee devoted more thau a month to careful, pains-
taking consideration of this bill. It spent several days in giving
hearings to various interested parties, and to representatives of
several departments of the Government. These hearings cover more
than two hundred printed pages.
A lucid report was submitted by the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce, and same is annexed hereto and made a
part hereof as Appendix A.
The purpose of this bill is to mitigate the rules of law which prohibit
all intercourse between the citizens of warring nations, and to permit,
under careful safegtuards and restrictions, certain kinds of business
to be carried on. It also provides for the care and administration of
the property and property rights of enemies and their allies in this
country pending the war. Ihe spirit of the act is to permit such
business intercourse as may be beneficial to citizens of this country,
under rules and regulations of the President, which will prevent
our enemies and their allies from receiving any benefits therefrom
until after the war closes, leaving to the courts and to future
action of Congress the adjustment of rights and claims arising from
such transactions. Under the old rule warring nations did not
respect the property rights of their enemies, but a more enlightened
opinion prevails at the present time, and it is now thought to be
entirely proper to use the property of enemies without confiscating
it; also to allow such business as fire insurance, issuance and use
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