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The Wheeling Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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The Chamber of Commerce of the United States protested the House Appropriations Committee's cut to foreign trade estimates from $1,608,000 to $490,000, warning it would eliminate the commercial attache system and hinder U.S. international trade amid global competition.
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APPROPRIATION CUT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Protest against the action of the House Appropriations committee in cutting the foreign trade estimates of the department of commerce from $1,608,000 to $490,000 was sent by the acting secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States today to every member of the House. The effect of the passage of the appropriations bill as reported, Secretary Alexander has said, will be the elimination of the commercial attache system and a curtailment of the services of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
"No more inopportune time for the curtailment of the services of commercial information could be found," the congressmen were told in the letter, which was signed by D. A. Skinner. "While other countries are extending and enlarging their facilities for securing foreign trade, the letter asserts that American business men apparently are to be hindered in obtaining their share of international trade."
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Washington
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Feb. 22.
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elimination of the commercial attache system and a curtailment of the services of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce if the appropriations bill passes as reported.
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Protest against the House Appropriations committee cutting the foreign trade estimates of the department of commerce from $1,608,000 to $490,000 was sent by the acting secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to every member of the House. The letter, signed by D. A. Skinner, states that no more inopportune time for the curtailment of commercial information services could be found, while other countries are extending their facilities for securing foreign trade, hindering American business men in obtaining their share of international trade.