SENATE DISCUSSIONS
BILL TO DEAL WITH SPIES CHICAGO WHEAT BUYING ("Renter's" Telegram.) WASHINGTON, May 15. The Senate passed the Espionage Bill, without the censorship clauses. There was a heated debate on the cost of living. Speakers denounced food gamblers as parasites and pirates who should be banged. Mr. Bryan has transferred to the American register all British shipping building in the States, totalling a million tons, which will be used to carry supplies x to the Allies. The Chicago Board has prohibited wheat buying on futures for fortye'ight hours and has fiied the price for July and September contracts at 275 to 24 1 ; cents. A panic followed excited buyers tearing off each other's clothes.
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Grey River Argus, 17 May 1917, Page 3
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