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Show 0 0 LAW IS TOP Severe Penalties for Destruction De-struction of War Materials Ma-terials and Sabotage. WASHINGTON, April 4. Conferees of the senate and house today agreed on a bill providing severe penalties for destruction of war materials and for) sabotage Penalties of thirty years imprison- I ment and $10,000 fine are provided in the bill which was agreed up6n bpth ' by the house and the senate conferees, for acts which actually, or are intended, in-tended, or which "there is reason to believe," are intended to injure or to destroy war material and utilities The latter include arms, ammunition, livestock, live-stock, clothing, food supplies, rail roads, electric lines, canals, engines, machine- ehicle?, eyels. dam-reservoirs, dam-reservoirs, aqueducts, gas pipes, structures, struc-tures, electric, wireless, telegraph and telephone plants and 'all other articles arti-cles used by the United States, or any associate nation, in connection with the conduct of the war. Manufacture of Defective Materials. The legislation also penalizes willful will-ful manufacture of defective war materials, ma-terials, including their ingredients. A special clause provides that employes em-ployes shall not be prohibited from agreeing to stop work, when for the bona fide purpose of obtaining better wages or -conditions of employment, but otherwise penalizes acts interfering interfer-ing with transportation of war supplies sup-plies The bill was passed by the senate a jreai ;ip:o in restricted form and re-centlj re-centlj was broadened and passed by the house. Senate Denounces Spies. German spies, propagandists and persons making disloyal utterances were denounced in the senate today Ah' a .mi - ffort was made to rush through a house bill providing penalties pen-alties of twenty years imprisonment and $10,000 fine for interference with government bonds sales, acts intended to Interfere with the army draft and disloyal statements. "We've got to do something to catch Lucac Buwuuureia iuu fjjius an uvn iuo country," said Senator Overman of North Carolina. "People ar taking I the law into their own hands on the I ground that congress is not passing 1 necessary laws. We hear reports of , mobs everywhere." Senator Lodge of Massachusetts declared de-clared the bill would "not catch a : single spy," asserting that spies do not I do their work publicly, or openly making mak-ing disloal utterances Propaganda Notoriously Conducted. German propaganda has been "notoriously conducted," and the bill's , purpose is to broaden the espionage law, Senatoi Walsh of Montana said He said some federal courts have i made "strained constructions" of ex-isiinp ex-isiinp law and discharged persons who have denounced the president and i the nation and obstructed the draft 1 and bond subscriptions. |