Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-04-26
DEFENDS
= !sss';ss1| 5';;:;;;R| |TEER SYSTEM
But Friends of Conscription
Believe House Will Pass
Army Draft Bill.
MAY VOTE SATURDAY.
Contracts for 3s Submarines to he LeS
This week-U. 8. Censors All ca.
bies Touchisg This Country.


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wv" '"o "oo' III '"e 1ouse to-uay
and aroused great enthusiasm among OPP
ponents OF the administration army hill
by his vigorous denunciatiop NJ tho se,ec.
ton draft and defense NJ tho volunteer
system. chamn,ona ~ tho n,oosyro ..;,,
were corf,dent to.r,vht .h.+ 4. ,,,,,,,s ,as.
not ,ater thon soturasv ,.;r.,,.,,,, 80
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CONSENT " vo'e OH II tnere oy oa.uroaS
WI, oe sous". o.'"orrow' Mnor cnaIlseS
maze III one mouse OF the other prooaDiy
VIII necesstate conference so tnat the
Dill is not hkeiy 10 become law lot
week or more.
Speaker Clark spoke for more than an
hour Most OF the House membership ana
many senators heard him plead in charac-
terstic fashion that the volunteer system
be tried again. and declare that In the
minds Of the people Of his State the word
''conscript' is classed with convict" APP
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!. oNiHASle fo0 % 81 onMAf'iN1o'
Contracts Tor the 81 submarines author
lzed by the last congress PROBABLY Will
be awarded within day or Two. Navy
department onlciais nave competed their
STUDY o, oIos recelvsu anu u was iea,neo
to-uay iou"u u poSs'o,e 10 ooiu '''e ""o'e
oiuer ~I.nou. SFea' uo'aS' ~.
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go. CO.. "ons.rw,,;or
, s.o;s;om s,so is o.oa s,o-.,,, ,n
, the nras,ion of add;,;onsi dest-ower. In.
dicat,ons ore ,h.t tho n,an 70 turn o,+
t smaller hoats than those most recently
, ordered will be abandoned No annreci.
able sneed;ne IN ~ deliveries IL wa.
4 found. would result from n return IN the
= 75O-ton type boats. as against the /. 100
tonners while the military value of the
' smaller boats Is decidedly less.
y The chief trouble in regard to either
n type is in securing engines.
q Contracts for the FIVE great battle cruis-
a lers recently ordered will be signed to-
= morrow.
= Censorship on all cables touching the
United states and on telegraph and tele'
q pnone lines INTO Mexico VIII De establish
ed shortly by executive order. Regula'
i tions formulated )ointly py the state
war, navy ana justice departments ano
the new committee on pubic Information