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Show MAGAZINE POSTAGE MEASURE KILLED Washington, March 3. The pro-poBCd pro-poBCd increase of magazine postage Is dead for this session. Chairman Penrose Pen-rose of the senate committeo on post-offices post-offices and postroads, announced on the Senate floor today that, in vlow of tho certainty that the debate on tho subject will Horvo to obstruct other oth-er legislation and bo futile any way, ho would ask tho senate to agrco to abandon the proposition. Mr. Penrose faid ho would present a substitute amendment providing for a commission to investigate the subject Mr. Cummins announced that if tho proposition vtcrc not withdrawn, ho would himself undertake to "talk it to death." |