The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
WILSON LACKS ONE
VOTE ON SHIP BILL
II lie Could Get II. the Meas
ulc WoIld Have a Chance
Of Passage.
,sITLOOk Is FOR DEFEAT

WAsuINoroN. Feb. e.-Democratic
fidcrs In the Senate confessed to-day
Mat with the arrival of Senator New
hands on Monday they will be still one
yot, short of the necessary number to
rceommit the ship purchase bill with
instructions that will insure its being
rcportad back to the senate amended
to please the Progressive Republicans.
senator Newlands has been sending
kilograms from points along the route
TIA, he will he here not later than
Monday and expects to arrive early
enough that day to participate in the
voting
The senate was not In session to-day
and there was very little activity In
regard to the ship bill. Leaders agreed
yesterday to take no further steps I'M
I'll Monday.
It was the judgmen; to-day that a
votc would come Monday or Tuesday
on 4 motion to recommit absolutely and
that a vote would then follow on Sem
ator Cores motion to discharge the
Commerce Committee from further con-
sid-ration OF his Bil. which carries
III, amendments demanded by the Pro-
sressiye Republicans The Gore motion
will not be pressed unless Senator
ing bill prevails, as now seems certain.
The eject OF the adoption of the
Clarke motion will be to kill the pend
ing ship purchase bill for this session.
II is conceded that unless the Commerce
Committee is instructed to report II back
ii will be buried in the Commerce Com
m.t'oc.
NJ the Republican members OF the
committee are opposed To 1t and three
Of the Democratic members are in
cluded in the seven Democratic members
who have gone on record in favor Of
recommitting the measure. They will
moi vote to report II out, because
their objections to it are fundamental
These Senators are Clarke, Bankhead
and Nardaman.
II the Gore bill can be brought before
the Senate direct by TIE adoption OF
the motion to discharge the Commerce
Committee from its consideration tho
fight to pass ship purchase bill will
In The future revolve around the Gore
measure.
Tho advocates % the ship purchase
b'' fecl confident Of obtaining the votes
OF three Progressive Republicans--T.a
Toilette. Kenyon and Norris The best the
ship bill advocates hope for is tie vote.
which the Nlco-Presdcnt Is expected -
dccid. iu their favor.
few Of the more ardent Administra-
t.o1 Senators insist in their talks for
publication that they will go on with the
frht 10 pass the ship bill. Some declare
they are in favor Of an extra session, II
necessary, but there is an undercurrcnt
~ discomfort on the Democratic side and
several Of the more conservative Semi
tors say that. II necessary. they will put
through a motion TO disp!sce the ship
hill with one OF the regular appropria-
ton bills and that once displaced II
never Will come up again.
The river and harbor bill has already
been ordered reported and the post Office
appropriation bill will be reported to the
Senate Monday by Senator Bankhead.
who may move to proceed to its Consid-
GRAFTON on Tuesday.
some Of the Democratic Senators who
have been standing by the President on
the ship bin intimate they will not fol-
.ow him in support of the Gore bill
There was nothing in the situation TO-
day to warrant a change in the estimate
heretofore made in these dispatches that
tn ship purchase bill is dead for this
Congress
Even II the Gore bill is brought before
the Senate and substituted for the pend
'ng bill the Republicans will continue the
flbuster up to March 4 at noon, "
necessary, AT which hour this Congress
will expire by limitation Of law.
In letter congratulating Senator
PoindeNter OF Washington on his att
tude toward the motion TO recommit the
ship purchase bill ex-senator jonathan
Bourne OF oregon characterizes the
Presidents effort to force action by Con-
gross as "unjustihable.
Mr. Bourne congratulated Senator
Pondexter as "one Of our consistent
advocates OF truly popular and repre-
sentative government" for his coopera-
lion with other Republican senators and
few independent Democrats in re-
bukluR the Presidents efforts to dictate
10 Congress what legislation shall bs
enacted.