Putnam patriot., 1912-04-05
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 favorable report on the bill to re- peal the Canadian reciprocity law ex- eeptipg section z relating to wood pulp and print papers was authorized by the Senate committee on finance. The law was rendered imperative says as to the paper schedule, by Canads's re- iectlon of the reciprocity agreement which the law was 10 enforce. On January 3l, 1912, there were lO3 postal savings Repositories in opera ton in Connecticut with deposits | amounting to over $l0l,500. This amount was deposited by about 2,500 deposiiors, or an average of more than $40 per depositor. Since the opening i of postal savings deposits in Connecti- cut there have been approximately | 5000 accounts opened, and more than s,300 deposits made, or an average of about three deposits to each depositor and about 800 withdrawals, on an nv elage of about one to each two deposits.
 President Taft was in an optimistic ! frame of mind Saturday night when he faced several hundred members of | the Philadelphia Chamber Of Com merce in the Boufse. He told them | he believed the people were on the eve | of better times; that things were grow ing better and that he believed there | would be no great coal strike. He said he had no jurisdiction in settling strikes and that he "knew enough to wait and see if you were welcome than to 70 putting in to a matter between parties who know their rights. The President said he was not reaction ary, but was a progressive; that he was not pessimist, but an optimist.
 By vote of 222 to 30s the House of Commons rejected the conciliation bill on it's second reading. This measure was drawn to confer the right to vote on every woman possessed of the household qualification, and would en- franchise one million women. The announcement of the result was receive ed with deafening cheers, Last year similar bill, introduced by Sir George Kemp, passed the second reading stage by vote of 265 to Ss on a noh- party division, and was referred to a com mittee Of the whole house, making no further progress. The astonishing re- yessal in the views of the members which has since tnken place is attfib- uled to the strong resentment aroused by the window smashing tactics of the militant sufiragiSls.
 Miss Clara Barton, for many years head Of the Red Cross Society, is seri" ously III and reported dying at her country home al Glen Echo, Md. Miss Barton is in her ninety. first year. She is the daughter of soldier, Captain Stevens Barton, who fought against the Indians with Mad Anthony Wayne, and was born al Oxford Mass. The issue between Theodore Roose- welt and the present national adminis- Iration was emphasized by speech which the former President delivered in Detroit Saturday. The railroad rate bill passed by the present Congress and the Lorimer case furnished the themes for his speech.
 Conditions in the Torreon district and in the lower part Of Chihuahua Mexico, are worse than chaotic, ac cording to the statements of the feder. als from that station. IL Is rocking with bloodshed, and deeds of violence robberles and other acts Of outlawry committed not only by men belonging to the revolutionary cause but by many rowing bands Of brlgands, are oI daily occurrence. The fighting in the section between Torreon and Jiminez i4s miles, which has been in progress almost continuously at one point or an other for six days, has devastated ali that slope of the country. The food supply of number Of towns, includ' ing Torreon, k exhausted, and thou. sands of people are on the verge ol famine. All business in Torreon |, suspended. The city is we'll fortified Preparations are being made by ths federas 10 make a determined stand there, ana il may take long siege o the rebels 10 win A final victory. Mem bers of the Madero family are selling of all their cattle upon their severa large ranch properties. Large exporta iions of livestock are being made |, the United States. One shipment O eleven thousand head Is now betns driven to the border and will cross tn, Rio Grande near here in few days.
 Captain Robert <. scott's vessel the Terra Nova, which carried th' British expedition to the Antartic, hs' arrived at Akaroa, a harbor in Bank Peninsula, New Zealand, but has mol | back Captain Scott or the
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