TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917. UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. ubcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in mittee room, Capitol, Senator Joseph E. Ransdell presiding. nt: Senators Ransdell (chairman), Vardaman, and Fernald. present: Hon. Charles Warren, Assistant Attorney General United States; Albert Lee Thurman, Esq., Solicitor, DepartCommerce; Edward T. Quigley, Esq., Assistant Solicitor, nent of Commerce; Mr. B. S. Cutler, Chief of the Bureau of and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce; M. Phelps, Esq., L. Steward Bacon, Esq., and Thomas E. on, Esq., representing the law and rules committee of the in Patent Law Association; J. G. Boston, Esq., of the firm of lader, Wickersham & Taft; O. G. Saxon, Esq., of the firm ath & Henderson, representing the New York Stock Transfer tion; Mr. K. W. Buck, representing certain shippers of New ity; and Mr. J. S. Edgar, representing the Diarsenol Co., of Canada. CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. ubcommittee had under consideration the following bill: 30.-AN ACT To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, at this Act shall be known as the "Trading with the any Act." SEC. 2. That the word "enemy," as used herein, shall deemed to mean, for the purposes of such trading and of Act- (a) Any individual, partnership, or other body of ividuals, of any nationality, resident within the territory cluding that occupied by the military and naval forces) any nation with which the United States is at war, or |