The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-12
HOUSE IS TO AGAIN TAKE UP QUESTION AND MAKE IT AN
 EMERGENCY MEASURE.
FlLIBUSTER IS CONTINUED
Dread of Extra Session is Causing the Administration Forces to Try and Reach Agreement Acceptable to In. sur9ent Senators.

Washington Feb. 1I-A compro. mise proposal designed to extricate the administration ship purchase bin from the deadlock which has blocked it's passage in the senate and to avert an extra session, was put forward to- night by house democrats through Representative Kitchin of North Carolina, chosen majority leader in the next house.
 The new plan, which proposes tEe passage of the shipping bill as a tenn porary emergency measure, was de veloped at a conference of the house while the senate marked time with both opponents and supporters of the measure sparring for advantage An adjournment of the senate tonight ad- yanced the plan of the democratic leaders to force cloture rue that would end the determined fHbuster. As announced by Representative KitChin, the compromise contamplates the passage through the house next week of the compromise bill suggest ed by Senator Gore with an amend ment that would terminate the gov ernment's activities in the shipping business two years after the close of the European war.
 The desire of both republicans and democrats in the house and senate to avoid an extra session, Represan tive Kitchin said, probably would give the proposed plan sufficient support 10 get it through before March 1. He asserted that the elimination of the permanent government ownership fea- ture of the shipping bil would win enough democratic votes in the senate to pass it and would placate the re- pubIicans sufficiently to put an end to the determined filibuster.
 Representative i<itchin, Majority Leader Underwood, Representative Adamson and other house leaders conferred with President Wilson at the white house today and returned 10 the capitol with the assurance that despite the gloomy outlook in the sen- ate, the president was still. firm in his determination to press the ship pur- chase bill even to the point of calling an extra session of congress if the measure was b ocled until March 1 Senators Fletcher and Simmons also talked with Mir Wilson. Repres enta- tive Kitchin and other house members told the president of opposition in congress to an extra session and that they believed that an extra sessto would prove futile because the ship bin would fail to obtain a majority in Uhe next house.
 An effort will be made to clear up the appropriation measures in order that nothing but the ship bil win be pending when congress expires OF March I Wita that accomplishment congressional leaders hope that all extra session may be avoided even fl the shipping bill fails.
 In the senate the day was devoted again to speeches on the bill and to informal conferences of leaders of va rious factions, after numerous notices had been given of a clOture rule to limit debate. Late in the day Senator Lea of Tennessee gave notice of an amendment to the rules which would provide for fixing a time for a vote on any pending bil, whenever the senate should sustain a declaration that ob- structive tactics were being employed. Senator Norris, who gave notice sey- eral days ago of a rule to limit debate on a bill to three hours for each sena- tor, succeeded in getting his amend ment referred to the committee on rules, which will meet tomorrow
 An effort to pass some cloture rule will be made tomorrow. This is a debatable question and may operate to prevent consideration of appropria- ton bi Is which insurgent democrats and republicans had hoped to under take today. Regular democratic lead CTS expected that a motion would be made to take up the pOstoffice appro- priation bill. but in view of the clo ture rule efforts and the fact that senate and house leaders were con. ferring on a plan to devise a new ship purchase bill, Senators Norris and Kenyon, who yesterday deserted the administration forces, refused to vote for any motion except to ad- journ. This left opponents of tho