Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-11

the committee and Wnlcn paSSeu tIe house by large majority was finally satisfactory to all the contendinS m tereStS.
 Secretary Wilson laid before the cabinet yesterday what the department is doing and has been doing for some time regarding the growing of tlne wrapper and filler tobacco ill this country. The president was very much interested and went over the subject with the secretary very tho roughly. Secretary Wilson said that further experiments will be made. It has been shown that the $6,O00OO0 year of fine wrapper tobacco imported into this country can be raised i'll thls country. and spoke specially or the Connecticut wrappers as being among the finest. He also showed that large crops of wrapper tobacco are now be- ing raised in Connecticut and other New England states.
 Having had so much success With wrapper tobacco the department has now turned it's attention to filler to- .bacco, for which $S.000.000 is now paid out each year in importations. lie spoke of the various locali&Ses selected and the experiments which will soon be inaugurated in Connecticut and other states with tobacco under cover. The secretary is enthusiastic over the prospect of increasing largely our na- tive tobacco crop, and impressed the president and cabinet with his ideas.
 The state department to-day issued passports to Mrs F. H. Chapel and Miss Marion Chapell, of New London, who will spend the winter travelling in Europe.
 The pension office to-day issued a pension of $6 a month to William w. Johnson, of New Haven.
 At the meeting of the veterans of the second army corps held last night at the New Willard, Charles Lyman, of Hartford, was reelected president Colonel Lyman served in the fourteen tn Connecticut regiment during the war.
 A. H. Merrill of Hartford is register ed at the St James.
 The consideration of the bill to make the census bureau permanent occupied the attention of the house all day yes teerday, and was finally recommended td the committee. MT Russell who is the ranking member of the committee on the census, was nti present when the bill was passed upon by the com mittee. .'There are many features of this bill" he said, "which I am op- posed to. 1 fear, if we pass this bill and the senate concurs, we will have to make many amendments to it later on. The staff of the director as pro- posed by this bill is too large, while in my opinion he needs more clerks. However, I did not wish to oppose the bill to any great extent, as I am in favor of q permanent census bureau 1 do not think it would have taken much to have defeated the bill in the house. as the opposition to it was quite strong.
 Mir Russell presented the following resolutions and petitions ill the house to-day from the Western Labor Union, fayOring the re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion act, the same from the PfeSSmen'S union of New Haven, signed by John Handley as president, band N. J. Mullen, as secretary, from the New London Machinists union, 454, signed by Owen c. Williams, president, and Roy w. Nichols, secretary, favor ing the building of warships ill the navy yards, the same from the Hart ford Boiler Makers union, NJ. F. Me Gowan, president, and J. r. Glynn, secretary, and also from the Hartford Central Labor uniOn
 MT Russell also introduced in the house a petition asking congress to define legal marriage as being mona gamic. This petition was signed by SO6 residents of the third district and was fifteen yards long.
 The committee on coinage, weights and measures had meeting yesterday and voted to report the bill introduced by Mir Hill providing for the main tenance of the legal tender silver dollar at parity with gold, and for the in crease of subsidiary silver coinage
 This will be the first financial bill pre-
 sented to tlle house for consideration It is the same bill that Mr Hill intro
 duced last session, and passed tn,