The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-06
Will Move to Discharge the Commerce Committee From Consideration of Substitute Bill
SMALL CHANGE FOR
 FILIBUSTER TO BE
 BROKEN DOWN NOW
Consideration of Measure May Be Forced, But There Is Little Likelihood of Final Passage

Washington, February 5.--Adminis-
 tration senator's believed tonight they
 hnd found n way to again place inc re- publicans on the defensive in the ship purchase hill fight Finding themselves lacking votes to carry n motion to send the hill back to committee with In- structiops as to how it should he amended, the democratic leaders to- senator Gore moved to discharge the commerce committee from considcra- ton of the substitute biil which he introduced yesterday md which is said to embody the changes agreed 10 by the democratic caucus to meet the views of progressive republicans.
 The democratic leaders declare they can pass that motion, which would bring tho Gore substitute back to the floor of the Senate and gave it precedence over the original measure Thus it is hoped to avoid vote on Senator Clarke's motion to recommit without instructions. which tho seven insurgent democrats have promised to support and to force the republicans to resume their fight to prevent final action on the bill itself
 In view of that situation, the allied froees favoring the Clarke motion to-
 day decided on a rest. and rallied
 enough votes to force recess until
 Monday Senator Clarke, who led the
 democratic revolt made the motion for
 the recess and the administration dem
 ocrats did not onpose it.
 Depends on Votes | If on Monday the democratic leaders
 find they have enough votes, counting
 on the vice president, to recomnit the bill with instructions, they will try to do so. If not they expect to force vote
 on the Gore motion. They count on Sem
 ators Kenyon. Norris and LaFollette, progressive republicans. for support in
 that plan.
 Few Of the democratic leaders now have much hope of breaking tho TO- | publican flibuster, however, and there
 were many rumors today that the bill
 might be laid aside after another week | of strenuous efforts to pass it and ap-
 propriation measures taken up. Today the Senate was enlivened by speeches of insurgent and regular dem
 ocrats rehearsing the revolt over the 1 bill. Senators Hardwick and Vardaman
 defended their positions In revolting. and assailed Senator Stone for his at 1 tack on them. Senator James again criticized the insurgent democrats, par | ticularly arraignng his colleague Sen- ator Camden.
 "The senator from Mississippi. MT. | | publicans as well as they" said Senator James "rhere are two kinds of republi- 1 cans. The difference is that you went to | the standpaters while We went to the | progressives for aid, but not until, like | a shot from a submarine, you fired upon our party
 "'rhe senator from Kentucky. my col | league. l maintain is pledged to support | this bill. and I wish he would como
 back to his party I am willing to put
 my arms around him and pray with him | to get back into the democratic party" I Senator James read from campaign speech by senator Camden in which tho l latter was quoted as saving that, If elected, he would uphold the hands Of ! President Wilson"
 Hold Up His Hands l "What the senator from Kentucky
 meant, it now seems" Senator James
 asserted was that he would hold up
 the Presidents hands while the republi- | can party tied them"
 Senator James also read from speech
 made by MT. Hardwick last year when | he was a member of the House. The speech was aimed, Senator James said.
 at Speaker Clark, who opposed the ad- ministration's efforts to pass the Pan ] tContinued on Page Ten.b