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Show U. S. GOVERNMENT STRIKES AT I : INTERFERENCE WITH MAILS I 'H Also Hits at Allied Blacklist by Drastic Amendments Made to the Revenue Bill Consternation Created Among the Washington Diplomats of the Allies. x Washington, Sept. 5. Drastic amendments to the revenue bill, strikingat strik-ingat tho allied blacklist and British interferences with American mails, were adopted today by the senate and created consternation among the diplomatic diplo-matic representatives of the allies. In allied quarters It was declared that tho enactment of the amendments into law would constitute nothing less than a non-intercourse act, preliminary prelimin-ary to a commercial warfare with possibilities pos-sibilities of far-reaching consequences. Until the retaliatory amendments become law with the president's signature, signa-ture, the allies technically have nothing noth-ing to protest about, hut there are assurances as-surances that representations will be made if the amendments stay in the bill. Inasmuch as the government had decided on a course of legislation to meet the restraints on commerce which diplomatic correspondence have been unable to remove, it Is generally general-ly expected the amendments will be put through. The administration leaders, lead-ers, who have intimate connections with the government's foreign policy, made no attempt to stay their adoption. adop-tion. An amendment to the revenue bill, authorizing the president, during a war in which the United States is not engaged, to withhold clearance from all vessels which discriminate against American shippers; to withhold privileges privi-leges from ships of such nations as withhold privileges accorded to other nations from American ships and to use the army and navy, if necessary, to prevent departure of offending vessels ves-sels from United States ports, was adopted today by the senate. An amendment of Senator Phelan of California was adopted, the presfc-dent presfc-dent by proclamation to deny the use of malls, wireless, telegraph or cable facilities to citizens of nations which do not accord to Americans all facilities facili-ties of commerce, "including the unhampered un-hampered traffic in the mails." This amendment, it was declared, was aimed aim-ed particularly at British interference with American mails. The Chamberlain amendment prohibiting prohi-biting admission of halibut and salmon sal-mon into the United States except when in bond from an American port, also was adopted. The amendment is directed di-rected against Canadian fisheries on the Pacific and to urge development of American fisheries there. An amendment to the tariff commission com-mission section by Senator Galllnger was adopted which broadened the commission's powers so that it shall watch the effects of tariffs on industry indus-try and labor and also observe the effect ef-fect of "economic alliances." An amendment by Senator Sterling, directing the commission to investigate investi-gate the cost of production here and abroad, was rejected. Washington, Sept. 5. Arrangements Arrange-ments to forward mails to Uie Philippines Philip-pines by army transport announced yesterday in San Francisco, were forwarded for-warded here today by official announcement an-nouncement that mails for the United States postal agency at Shang Hal no longer would be dispatched through Vancouver, B. C. Thd purpose ostensibly osten-sibly is to remove the mails from the possibility of British Interference. The proposition to carry mails to the Philippines on army transports involves in-volves the war department, the navy department and the postoffico department. depart-ment. Officials were reticent today to talk about the malls. saulting troops broke up and flowed , back to their starting line, having suffered heavy losses. JM "South of the Somme the Germans attempted an action at only a single point of the front, east of Bello-en-Sauterre, where several attacks were repusel by our fire. The enemy left , about 100 more prisoners in our hands. I H "On the banks of the Meuse the night was comparatively calm. In the 1 Fleury and Le Chenols Bectors we took fifty prisoners, including two of- ;l fleers. An enemy attack southeast of Thiaumont work met with a com- .H plete reverse. iH "Aviation: One of our aeroplanes, BJi which was attacked by four enemy machines, succeeded in freeing itself from Its opponents, one of which was rj subjected to machine gun firo at very -! close range and crashed to the ground 8'H in the Chaulnes district." IiH |