Connecticut western news., 1917-06-07
(,ONSCRIPTION 7.
 A HUGE SUCCESS
oaIy a Few SIsckers, While
 10000, GOO Enroll.
E0 TROUBLE WAS REPORTED

President and Officials Gratified. Registration Figures Will Not Be Known For Few Days.
 The national government from Presi- dent Wilson down, is congratulatinG the country on the complete success of The first nation wide conscription regis tration day in the history of the United states. The day passed off without a hitch. There was little trouble and few slack CTS. Reports from forty-eight states to the war department showed the regis tration a complete success.
 Attorney General Gregory issued the following statement: n-
 Reports received at the department of justice relative to registration indi- cate a ready and general response on the part of young men of the country to the demands of the conscription act. No resistance to registration has come to my attention"
 Reports from governors of states to Provost Marshal General Crowder showed that there was no serious trou- ble anywhere in the country. Officials expressed the opinion that on the face of the information at hand not only the anti-draft propa ganda, which was given widespread circulation throughout the country for the last week, failed utterly and that German efforts to enbarrass the government proved futile, but that there was comparatively little slack ing Complete figures are expected to show that seven-eighths of the men eli gibie registered
 [. w. W.'s Cowed In Michigan.
 The mining town of Negaunee, in Michigan, was the only place from which anything at all. akin to real trouble was reported. It was virtually : placed under martial law by com pany of guardsmen sent there by Gov ernor Sleeper while I. W. W. leaders were organizing demonstration against conscription.
 The soldiers seized the Labor temple, headquarters of the T. W. w., and the Opera House, where a big anti-conscrip- tioq meeting was scheduled. Orders l. that under no circumstances would all anti-draft parade be permitted.
 Secretary of War Baker and Attor ney General Gregory presented most encouraging reports on the registrations to the president at the cabinet meeting
 In the national capital the registra- tion was remarkably large, exceeding even the estimates of the government as to the number of men eligible There were no disturbances. Of the few arrests for drunkenness near the registration places and similar minor offenses one man was taken to jail for crying out at a long line before one of the booths, Drive the slaves in.' He himself was past the registration age.
 Almost 1o,ooo,ooo Enroll.
 The following comment on the regis tration was made by the official com mittee on public information:
 Nearly 1O,OOO,OOO Americans of military age registered for service in an army against Germany.
 The registration was accomplished in a fashion measuring up to the highest stand ards of Americanism. There was no hint of stacking spirit anywhere except in a 
 been prevailed upon to attempt to avoid their national obligation
 From every state reports were received showing that the sporadic conspiracies to thwart the first step toward the mobiliza- tion of as large an army as the country may need to bring the to victorious conclusion had failed utterly. The spirit of the young men from whom the fighting forces are to be selected was evidenced in their attitude toward ques- tion 12 on the registration blanks which asked if exemption was claimed. In thou sands of cases young men availed thenI- selves of their right to ignore this ques- lion and leave it entirely to the govern ment to decide whether they should be se- lected.
 General Crowder remained at his desk until early today, receiving re ports on conditions attending the regis tratiOn. Despite the favorable run oi these dispatches, he desired to be on the job should word of trouble in any state come in.
 Anti Draft Leader Registers.
 But at late hour there was nothing to indicate that the anti-draft propa ganda had not been completely squash ed One dispatch from agents of tho department of justice at Kansas City Mo, said that the leader of a smal group of anti-registration propagand ists in that part of the state had volun tarily registered. He was arrested { few days ago for his activities and wa: at liberty on bail. His submission wa the sign that the backbone of the propa ganda had been broken in western Mis- soRri.
 In only two states was there an. serious hampering of registration ant in both cases this was due to floods There was some difficulty in northwest erR Minnesota, according to a wir from the governor, because of higl water, while the governor of Indians telegraphed, High water in Brow