New Britain herald., 1917-05-15
No Other ChanS ( Made in Army Dl
 Bill By Arbiters
 Senate and House
PUBLISHERS OBJ
 TO NEW F. Q. IT l1

During isle Were onIy 4ls,osl(
 Many win Be Driyen out sf <.
 ness-Alany Dinerenccs
 snootlaed Out on EAsploasas
 Washington. May 15.-a4AAtS sS house conferees on the army I'll day agreed to report thu ul with q provision authorixing t1,I1 tdent to raise the volunteecs FIT Colonel Roosevelt dAsirea fo 1S France. No other change IT sfI were made by the confsrSe
 The conferees accentad change the hoiIse provi1lon Roosevelt volunteers. K lk
 As tho senate by . lareo fvcf < vfously approved the volisnfej its final adoption by both TIT regarded certain unleae eI1 unexpectedly develops m tha
 The full force of the adn1futs
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 Whether Col. Roosevelt &zd
 unteer force go abroad, hoW1Ji mains for the president to dx4i the provision agreed to byEtlSS ferees makes 1t optional aAl TIT datory upon the preside ent.
 The cqlAerees dectd pfsfx s other qdestions. Tho c6n1ls agreement remains unchanxsA& conferees hope to have the bSil ly adopted by both housea !! to the president before the eil
 week. s. & 7'st '' R.
 The war tax bill. provisiol stds ly increase postal rates on SAy yGlia vS and magazincs. again toxfay fro In the ho6ae. cenStRf f2
 the bill was nearing it9 il in the house while beforS 6S finAnoe committee, newsp5 r Nuhek9 contfnueas tI13fr xffsx dd bifi's postal ratsss pfovissS '.
 Gompers, president of tles w
 Federation of Labor, preseutS7 7S protest of the labor prose.
 The publishers of S6 of tl1s and most influential momthI1 M weekly magazines stated ni,Ti ST N that their average net earr faI ? 1916 were only $15, ,OO0 eacK. T the tncreaAed postage bilis " to the magazines under the ptf9j4 rate would be in excess Of ~ each. The increase in rates le&f the few survivors of this ,strstiisSI say, would have to be pasysl the reader. not merely in ti1s of higher subscriptions buf As creased advertising tax on iuSsS ticles Of food, apparel, or teJ Y household use. 2!
 Suspension of publication bSs zines, in addition, would tlirea employment thousands who TT E voted their lives to the psintjn # craving. electrotyping and M tradess
 Espionage Bfn In CnnfeecGis si1111 S
 Final shaping of the espionA6 passed yesterday by the sennte. 6, rested today with n coa1 committee of the two hou6ea differences to h were over newspaper cVn1 which the house included end .f5 nte rejeo4ed. and the senAtes6 vision for postal censorshtp & ii port embargo. not inclpded IF house bill. { esss z
 The senate rejected the ameu6 to forbid use Of grains or s5{e] liquor during the war. which lia N adopted Saturday in committee. !. 5 whole. ss to 32. An analysis ofs vote today showed the reversal sa as follows:
 Senators King and Johnson of C fornia voted for the amendment G arday but voted to strike 1t out ' erday. Thirteen who were ebfi voted against probik1 ,esterday-senators Warren. &S Mclean, Borah, Culberson, eNtS smith. (Arixona) Smith {1G4x5 Thomas, Colt, Dillingham;, ILnf Senators Fernald. CIT 6cCumber and ChamboraAl lbsent Saturday and yot4G IT he amendment yesterday, TT Brady, Smith (Georsia )@ am 'oted for prohibition Saturf 35g were absent yesterday; ,1 s
 To Renew Fight On Alcal1
 Undismayed by the sepate.s 2 nation or the Cummins pr0Mik&X from the espionago enators advocating dry legf6f9k turing the war today planned t0 lew their fight. N
 A group including Cummins u Kenyon of Iowa, Gore of sOkiahou Curtis of Kansas, Gronna of Nol Dakota and others, is working on worded bill for presents&i ither as a separate measure or a1s to the first food c0S( 'ation bill brought up. sas3
 Chairman Newlands of the &T commerce coEnsntt1 on an adrninistratio empower the president 'ailroads to give prefersncle
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