File No. 300.115/729
Senator
Williams
to the Secretary of State
Washington
,
October 12, 1914.
My dear Mr. Secretary: Here is a telegram
from Mr. W. P. Kretschmar, of Greenville,
Mississippi. Judging by his name he is an American of German
descent. Of course, cottonseed oil and cottonseed oil cake are
distinctly declared by the conference of London to be
non-contraband, not even conditional contraband, and I hardly think
it likely that any of the belligerents are interfering with the
shipments of these two products. I send you the wire, however, in
order that you may inquire into it and take such methods as may be
necessary, in case it is a fact.
I am [etc.]
[Enclosure—Telegram]
The President of the Chamber of Commerce,
Greenville, Mississippi (
W.
P. Kretschmar
), to
Senator
Williams
Greenville, Mississippi
,
October 9,
1914
.
British Government is interfering with shipments of cottonseed
oil and cake to neutral countries like Holland and Denmark.
Please take such immediate action as you deem advisable in the
premises with view of having [Page 322] same stopped, because if it continues it
will put the cottonseed oil industry in the same deplorable
condition as the cotton people and deprive the planters of
practically only revenue they are deriving from the present
cotton crop.
W. P. Kretschmar