The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-13
FIGHT ON SHIP
BILL SHIFTS
ADMINISTRATION FORCES
WORKING ON COMPRO-
MISE HOUSE BILL
FEAR 1T WILL NOT
UNITE DEMOCRATS
Leaders Declare Administration
Did Not Conceds Enough to
Secure Its Passage.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The shin
purchase bill fight shifted TODAY from
the senate to the house. In the SEN
ate. the measure. blocked by Repub-
lican opposition. was displaced as uu-
finished business. and cloture rule.
designed to terminate forcibly the fill
buster, was taken up
administration forces began work
on compromise house bill but house
leaders were far from confident II
would unite the divided senate Dem.
ocrats or win Republican support
They declared the administrator aid
not concede enough In the proposed
compromise to secure its passage.
The rloture rule presented in the
senate met the same Republican fill
buster ulat had blocked the ship bill
ana conference OF senate Democrats
was called for tomorrow to consider
sne adv'sabilfty of continuing the fight
lot the cioture proposal, or of aban-
doning 1t and returning to a direct
contest for the shipping bill.
The new bill in the house woe
developed after Postmaster General
Burleson for the administration went
TO The capitol and definitely rejected
the compromise measure advanced by
Representative Kitchin. The Kitchin
proposal contemplated making the
ship bill q temporary enlergency
measure and would have taken the
government out OF the chipping bust
mesa two years after the termination
q The 4cs1Enp isssFsr Mr. 2itehin fie-
ciared passage OF this uleasrre
through both branches OF congress
was assured. \
Ihe administration counter-propos-
al, as II was being framed tonight.
would organize shipping board with
an appropriation of 100000 900 to en-
gage In shipping for period ending
Two years after the wars termination.
'Then the ships would be turned over
10 the secretary of the navy to be
leased or operated In the merchant.
service in his discretion. THE D.an.
10 place the government permanently
in, the shipping business, was the
point the administration insisted on
II Is The provision, too, against which
the senate Republicans fiIibusfer
chiefiy i5 aimed. House leaders to-
night said that provision would de-
Feat the measure In che senate.
inc administration proposal which
embraces the Weeks bill for the or
gani2ation OF a merchant marine nav
al auxiliary. the Gore compromise
shlpping bill and amendments prob
ably will be brought into the house
next week. Passage of the Weeks bill
with the administration amendments
would place the compromise before
the senate as a house amendment to
bill already passed.
Representative Kitchin said tonight
mat he had no hope of the administra-
lion compromise passing the senate.
1T may have a moral effect upon
the senate and the country" he added
howeyer. "and may strengthen the ad-
mintstration support in the senate
The Weeks bill would provide for
the establishment OF United States
naval mail lines between the United
States and South America and be-
tween the United States and the coun-
tries OF Europe" 1t would authorize
tne secretary OF the navy to employ
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