Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-19 | Page 4 | Wilson Can Not Order Embargo

WILSON CAN NOT ORDEREMBARGO Authority Must Come From Congress, If Exportation of Wheat Is Stopped. Washington. Jan. 19. President Wilson has no authority to declare an embargo on the exportation ot v hat and other foodstuffs, he told callers toda, discussing recent increases in-creases In food prices in the United States. Such authority must COltte irom congress, he said, adding i hat. he had not investigated the constitutionality constitu-tionality of such a step. He did r )t commit himself on the advisabi . of an embargo act. The president said nothing ccjj 1 be done by the government towartl regulating prices, unless illegal : tices by merchants were disclosed the investigation he has directed i . . attorney general to begin.