New Britain herald., 1916-07-17
CAPT. KELLOGG MAY
 to BACK TO NAVY
Would Be Affected by Amendment
 to Appropriation Bill
Especial to the IIerald.)

on the retired list of the navy sev-
 eral years ago by action of the so- l called "p1ucking board" will be re-
 stored to the active list of the navy 1 and his former place in that list if | an amendment to the naval appropri-
 ation bill which Senator Brandegee
 of Connecticut secured the adoption 1 of remains in the measure as it is | enacted into law.
 The man is Capt. Frank w. Ke1-
 logg of Waterbury, who would take
 rank after Capt. Thomas Snowden on 1 the active list of the navy. Capt. 1 Kellogg sought relief from congress 1 when his retirement was first an-
 nounced by the "plucking board" At that time Representative William
 Kennery of the fifth Connecticut con- gressional district introduced a bill
 providing that Capt. Kellogg should be restored to the active list The
 captain was here with other officers
 who were "plucked" about the same time, and appeared before the house
 committee on naval affairs. The agi- tation existing at that and other times finally resulted in repeal of the law under which the "plucking
 board" was operating. Now friends of "plucked' officers are anxious to
 get their men put back where they
 would be if the "plcking board had never existed.
 Senator Brandegee offered a reso- lution calling upon the president for information as to comm ercial treaties and agreements among Germany and her allies and the effect of such agree ments upon American trade and commerce. MT Brandegee said that
 -J,~ oh 11n Teutonic trade agreements as well as about the trade agreement recent 1y executed between the entente all lied powers. Information concern ing the latter has already been fur nished to the senate.
 Mr. Brandegees resolution was re- ferred to the committee on foreign relations, which Is expected to report upon it favorably in the near future. It's passage is also expected.
 Business and industrial conditions in Connecticut are good. if one may be permitted to interpret a recent re-
 port by the department of labor,
 which gives a table showing that
 from July 1, 1915. until May Is,
 1916, there were, 93 important wage increases reported to the govern
 ment, reports as to 65 of which showed there were 113 establish
 ments involved, while 2s reports did
 not show the number of establish ments involved in the increases.
 Thirty-four reports showed the num-
 Der of employees involved in certain of the increases. that number being 979O6. There were 59 reports that
 did not show the number of employees affected by the wage increases Doted
 in Connecticut by the government au- thorities.
 Among the petitioners to congress in favor of one cent letter postage legislation are the following in Con-
 necticut:
 Connecticut Funeral Directors As socation, Bridgeport: Connecticut State Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters, Derby; Connecti-
 cut Association of Insurance Agents, New Haven; Business Mems Associa- tion, Norwich; Rockville Business Mems Association, Rockville; Con-
 necticut Bankers Association, South Norwalk Waterbury Business Mems Association, Waterbury,; Connecticut | Retail Hardware Association Wood-
 bury.
 The post office department am
 nounces that the post office at Tyler
 City, New Haven County, has been
 ordered discontinued July 31, after which mail for that locality should
 go to Orange, Conn.
 In view of the federal inheritance tax that is proposed in the pending | revenue bill it may be interesting to
 note that during the fiscal year 1914 1915 the revenue derived by the state of Connecticut from it's state inheri-
 tance tax law was $S07,293.27, accord- ing to a table compiled here by some students of the pending bill. How this state revenue would be affected by the federal inheritance tax law if at all is a question that has not been answered.
 The pending revenue bill also pro- vides for taxes on wines and the wine | industry which may affect Connecti- | cut to some extent. A compilation of government statistics shows that there
 were 4170 farmers in Connecticut growing grapes. Their vines num- l bered 107,O54 and a total of 1,317,- | 6S2 pounds of grapes was produced 1 in the state.
 On July i, the department of az
 ricuture reports, the combined con-
 dition of all crops in Connecticut
 was 103.4 per cent, or 3.4 per cent.
 above the average. During June, however, the report shows, the con- 1 dition of Connecticut crops declined | 3.8 per cent.
 The prohibition party which will | hold it's convention in St. Paul, July | 1920, has invited the national wom- l ans party to draft the plank on fed eraI woman suffrage which will be Asserted in the platform of the pro- hibitionists. Miss Anne Martin, chair