With State Secretary Washington, May, 26.
Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, conferred for two hours today with Congressmen of both parties interested in the neutrality act. Mr. Sol "Bloom, Democrat of New York and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, after the conference predicted that the House would pass within a few weeks a measure:
1. Killing the old neutrality ° act's arms embargo.
2. Giving the President the power to designate danger zones in which he would forbid American shipping movements:
3. Prohibiting the financing of belligerents, 4. Relaxing the control over munitions "by possibly requiring the transfer of the title of the exports before munitions could be loaded at United States ports.
Mr. Bloom pointed out that the Committee had studied a similar bill for a fortnight and had printed a model for the purpose of discussion.
(Meanwhile, other Congressmen were convinced that Mr. Hull had decided to seek passage of the measure in the House of Representatives, where the Administration had strong support, instead of the Gillette bill in the Senate. The Gillette. bill, it was admitted, was inspired by the State Department and similarly would discontinue the arms embargo which, it was reported, was Mr. Hull's chief aim.
Congressmen "believed that Mr. Hull would welcome the passage of fhe. House measure even if the Senate would not act on it during this session of- Congress.—United Press,
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