New Britain herald., 1917-05-12
New York Leads WT
 l,o6S,OOO Men, { cording to Figures
 Census Bureau
HOUSE VOTE FAVOHl ll| ROOSEVELT LEClt

tirciy From Administration Espa
 age Bll in Senate By Vote or 31Ss
 3S-.Atte1npt to Substitute aArSf
 and Navy Censors Dcfented|
 tests Against War Tax Rili Ilcss@ @
 Washington, May 12.-Ten. nlt3 men in the United States will basS3 ject to the selective draft .conacf,ii5 on July 1 within the ages agreSa1 in the conference report On thes army bill. Director Rogers Of tho sus bureau announced today.
 This number of men betweesS ages of twenty-one and thirty. sive, represents very nearly tho ten per cent. of the total eSt{ population of between 1O$.0& and 104,00O.e00 on July I. 1e17.
 Of these conscription eAgib1e1 bureau estimates New York akaf4 have l,06S.O00. Pennsylvania Illinois 63S,5O0, Ohio 49a.Ao1 Texas 420,2OO. In the Gigs1k M % which had more than half population in 1910 the ,conSe3 eligibles July are estimated &&si York 624,700, Chicago 800, s0e; adelphia 17l.OOO, St. LOuie 1&S2 Boston 75.S0O. Cleveland 82sO0o timore 57.60of9and Pittsburgh a7s
 Connccticat Availabaes 13asol| x
 The numkaf of availables n necttcut is kimated by the " bureau as 1g3. 600; in Rhode TT 60,300 andSAGassachusetts, 3S6, &* E By a yat 9f 215 to l7s thu l today, aftet ! stormy debafe. ! to insfr}lctsaits conferees on thN bill to restore the senate amend to perntft Col Roosevelt division to France.
 Whsn, the bill came up: fcrsss sion Representative Anthony pa(l to ecQrnhiM to the confsrencosca mittes switfA fAinstructions to reiIs the Roosevelt amendment. Twoth IT of debate on the propos1I were, ETH upon. Chairman Dent f6f tho ni3l, committee objected tqfany clanI the conference report slthoiI6 originally sponsored Aybiunteer a1 ments. M SSf fsSa7
 Tn Eliminating the Roosevelt al mcnts the conferces, he said, carried out the expressed declaE@ of both houses of congress. Senate Strikes Out News Ccnsol
 The newspaper censorshfp pfs sions were stricken entirely from administration espionage bill todaItS the senate by vote of 39 to 3NS$ motion of Senator Johnson Of H fornia.
 After the clause had been str from the bill Senator Kirby, crat, of Arkansas, introduced amendment providing for a d{ and specific press censorship und supervision of the secretaries ots and the navy and that was detA 65 to 5. 5ss
 Prohibition against the emt ment or use of cereals, grains or ble grains in the manufacture of, & craze liquors during the war aNdS year after. was proposed m mendment by Senator CummI1 .ss|
 Administration officials today 0 serious consideration to plans b11 formulated for estabiishment ofs S| international purchasing agency eliminate competition among aI1t nations to whom the United StateA loaning money in purchase of 1y3 plies in American markets.
 Great Britain. France and Italy [ ready have agreed to such an engagement, 1t is said, and the otl nations are expected to enter 1t. N have to buy through the conae agency, however.
 Billions of dollars would "a by the purchasing commission concentration of this vast und@ ing in the hands of '. single III 2 even under consideration. Tho dla sought would be Co get the u10ak N every dollar sl~ent, by reducing power of producers to hold prt1 above the level justified by actnai z gregate demand.
 Secretary McAdoo has charge the drafting of proposed intern tieEal agreement to create the ns agency.
 Objections to Tax. Measure.
 A multitude of objections to ma specific taxes of the $l.800. 000, ,0 war revenue bill was voiced agatHf day in house debate and the sAMe finance committee on the mea%{sl The committee took up the war tAM on public utilities. advertising, amt ments, insurance .club dues md ufacturers of automobflea
 picture fliiAs. coslnstfcs ax T. gum and representatives of interests affected were on hand to tell how their businegges
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