Show MUST KEEP SILENCE Law Intended to Prevent Advance Information In-formation Regarding Crop Statistics Washington At tho close of a day of excitement In the house of representatives repre-sentatives an amendment was added to the penal code bill on Tuesday making it a criminal offense for any officer or omplojo of tho government to glvo out advance Information regarding re-garding any crop statistics authorized author-ized by law to be prepared Tho original orig-inal amendment was by Mr Burleson of Texas who made a strong plea for Its passage but a substitute by Mr Sherley of Kentucky with a brief addition ad-dition by Mr Olmstead of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania was accepted Tho necessity for its adoption was conceded by nearly near-ly every member who addressed tho house and its safe running of the gantlet was greeted with applause |