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Show ADOPT NEW SECTION II ESPIONAGE BILL Senate and House Conferees Con-ferees Believed to Have Complicated Situation. WASHINGTON, May Uf. K (Torts of tho administration to secure enaetmont by congress of newspnper censorship legislation assumed a new and, iu tho be.lief of nomo nffieials, a moro complicated compli-cated form todny when sennto and house conferees agreed on a new censorship cen-sorship section for tho espiomie bill. As redrnfted the cont'orence section pro"ifles tor prohibition bv congress of the wilful publication of military information in-formation useful to the enemv. with authority au-thority fur the president imlv to prescribe pre-scribe what information of the specific classes mav bo excepted. Trial juries I would be required to determine whether I publication of such information were wilful nnd whether the information' actually was nf benefit to tho enemy. ! The conferees regarded the substitute substi-tute as an extreme modi f i';i tion of all previous censorship proposals, but some senniors and represent n t ives refused to iiccept Hint opinion. 1'resident Wilson, the conferees said, had not been consulted con-sulted rejjariliiijr it. Some opponents of previous censorship proposals said (hev would oppose it vigorously. "When the I'nitod Mates is at w:ir the publishing will'ullv or iufonnnt ion with respect to tho movement, numbers, descrip! inn ur tlisposition of any of tho armed forces nf tho I'uited Staten in naval or militiirv opernt.ions, -or with respect to nnv of tho works intended for the fori if lent inn or defense of nnv pin ce. which in formal ion i" useful to the enemv, is herehv prohibited, nnd the president miiv from time to time, bv pro In mat ion, declnre tho ehuracter of such above described informal ion which, in his opinion, is not upefnl to the enemy, en-emy, nnd 1 hereupon It shull bo lawful to publish the same. iq,, nnv prosecution liereinunder the pir v t rv i mr t ho cane tdin ll det or mi ue "not" only whether tho ilel'cndnnt did ullfullv publish such in forma I ion, but nlso whether such informal ion was of inich charjictcr ns tn he ireful to the euciiiv; provided, thai not hint,' in this (Continued oil Thko Twolvo.) ADOPT NEW SECTION IN ESPilE BILL (Continued from Page One.) section shall be construed to limit or restrict any discussion, comment or criticism of the acts or policies of the government or its representatives, or the publication of the same, if such discussion, comment or criticism does not disclose information herein prohibited." prohib-ited." The conferees agreed today on several sev-eral other disputed sections of the espionage es-pionage measure, including those providing pro-viding for export embargoes, extension of the use of search warrants and protection pro-tection of foreign commerce. |