COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 7832 A BILL TO FACILITATE, TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED 80486 REVISED DECEMBER 3, 4, 7, 8, AND 9, 1942 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1942 CONTENTS Hon. Oscar Cox, Assistant Solicitor General_. Hon. Robert P. Patterson, the Under Secretary of War Hon. James V. Forrestal, the Under Secretary of the Navy--. Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission and Administrator of the War Shipping Administration___ Lt. Col. Herbert Friedlich, Office of the Under Secretary of War... Hon. W. R. Johnson, United States Commissioner of Customs.. Hon. Herbert E. Gaston, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. Oscar B. Ryder, Chairman, United States Tariff Commission. - Robert C. Alexander, Assistant Chief, Visa Division, Department of V. Frank Coe, Assistant to the Director of the Board of Economic John H. Connaughton, attorney for National Association of Hot House Vegetable Growers, the Vegetable Growers Association of Merwin K. Hart, president, New York State Economic Council, James M. Duffy, East Liverpool, Ohio, representing the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters and the American Wage Earners' FREE MOVEMENT OF CERTAIN PROPERTY AND INFORMATION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1942 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Robert L. Doughton (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. The meeting this morning, as announced through the press yesterday, is for the purpose of beginning public hearings on H. R. 7832, which the chairman was directed by the committee on yesterday to introduce as a basis for the hearing. I will offer the bill for the record; also the letter from the President and the message of the President on the subject, without objection. (The bill referred to is as follows:) [H. R. 7832, 77th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To facilitate, to the extent required for the effective prosecution of the war, the free movement of property and information into and out of, and of persons out of, the United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President is advised by either the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission, the Chairman of the War Production Board, the Administrator of the War Shipping Administration, the Director of Strategic Services, the Executive Director of the Board of Economic Warfare, or the Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (1) that any provision of law or regulations— (A) which imposes a duty, tax, impost, excise, prohibition, limitation, restriction, or requirement of any kind, upon the entry, importation, or bringing into, or upon the departure or exportation from, or the taking out of, the United States, or any of its Territories or possessions, or upon the transportation in connection therewith, of property or information, or (B) which imposes a prohibition, limitation, restriction, or requirement of any kind, including a tax, upon the procurement, processing, acquisition, disposition, transportation, transmission, or use of property not the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States or any of its Territories or possessions, or (C) which imposes a prohibition, limitation, restriction, or requirement of any kind upon the departure of persons from the United States, or any of its Territories or possessions, or upon transportation in connection therewith. is prohibiting, curtailing, delaying, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the free movement into or out of the United States or any of its Territories or possessions of tangible or intangible property necessary for our war effort, or any class or classes thereof, or of information necessary for our war effort, or any class or classes thereof, or with the free movement out of the United States or any of its Territories or possessions of persons necessary for our war effort, or any class or classes thereof, and (2) that such interference is detrimental to the successful prosecution of of the war, 1 |