New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

vile. The South Manchester, No.
 route mail would be taken up by
 routes from Pennington and Avon and also by route ?, Unionville. Two other
 Suffield routes and an East Granby
 route would take up mail now handled
 by route No. 1, Suffield.
 A similar reorganization of the ru-
 ral mail service in Litchfield county has also been proposed by the postof-
 flee department, but, owing to pro- tests against the arrangement, it has ! been suspended likewise, while an in spector detailed from the Boston
 branch of the postal inspectors ser vice investigates the situation.
 Representative Oakley, Freeman, : TilsOn and Hill of Connecticut were among the 136 bers of the house who voted against the special rule to
 permit consideration of amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill to provide for federal system of grain standardization and inspection, a federal system of warehouses for agricultural products, and new plan of regulating dealings in cotton fu- lures.
 Senator Brandegee of Connecticut is understood to have been the only re- publican senator present who did not vote against Gen. George Smith, pres ident of the excise board, whose nom ination for another term was rejected by the senate. Prohibition forces were against Smith on account of alleged laNity in enforcing the excise law.
 Bra1nfcgce Heard From.
 Senator Brandegee objected to the criticism of Senator Ashurst of Ariz- Ona that republican members of the senate judiciary committee are filibus- tering to prevent a vote on the nomin- ation of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to the United States supreme court. Mir. Brandegee made the following statement about the matter:
 The senator from Arizona (Mr. Ashurst has put into the Record an article from a newspaper which states that the republican members of the judiciary committee are filibusterlng against taking vote on the nOmina- tion of a justice of the supreme court of the United States, and he has given it out to the press of the country.
 T have attended, every meeting of that committee in which that nomina- tion has been considered. There has been no time when the republicans have made the slightest attempt to hinder coming to a vote. ] myself the other day, when the debate seemed to langui>h suggested that if nobody else cared to be heard, it was the duty of the chair to order the roll to be called, whereupon some senator commenced to discuss the case.
 ''It does seem to me that the Sena- 1 tor from Arizona, having caused this l article to be published all over the | country, making partisan charge, 1 charging all the republicans of the l ter upon this nomination until after | certain political conventions have | been held, either ought to prove his charge or to withdraw it. I do not think myself that he ought to leave it in the Record, reasserting it by putting it in the Record, after he has heard the disclaimers of the republican 
 T thing the senator is right re- piled Ashurst. "I ought to withdraw it after the disclaimer, because what ever I may have thought then, or whatever l may think noW-and 1 re- peat, nobody can imprison my thoughts or censor what I say think there is force in the senator's statement that senators having dls- claimed it, having asserted that they are not filibustering, ask to With draw that statement