AMERICAN TARIFF BILLS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 5

AMERICAN TARIFF BILLS.

NEW' DUTY. ON, CANADIAN PAPER. By Telegraph-Prsss Association-Copyright. (Rec. June 2, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, June 1. Tho Senate leaders nre planning to kill the Democratic tariff measures without forcing Mr. Taft's'veto. The Senators propose to amend each Bill as it. arrives from the House. The Canadian Reciprocity Amendment Bill, providing for the repeal cf the reciprocity agreement, has been amended by the Senate by the insertion of a clause imposing a duty of two 'dollars a ton on printing paper. The latter provision is so strongly opposed by all factions in the House of Representatives that the Democrats will be compelled to kill the Bill or allow it to go to a conference of both Houses, when the Senate will not concede its amendments and tho House of Representatives will not concede their Bill, and t deadlock will consequently occur. VIRGINIA COURT MASSACRE. e - JUDGE'S MURDERER SENTENCED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. June 3, 0.30 a.m.) New York, June 2. Claud Allen has been found guilty of the murder of Judge Thornton at the Hillsville courthouse, Virginia, in March last. • ■ The jury recommended a sentence ot fifteen years' imprisonment.

America was startled in March last by the murder of a whole court while in session at Hillsville, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southern Virginia. When Judge Thornton sentenced Flovd Allen to imprisonment for attacking officers of the law a whole volley of pistol shots rang out, and the judge, the prosecuting attorney, and the sheriff lay dead, while several other persons were wounded. The murderers escaped into the mountains.