The Washington times., 1922-12-08
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Jones to Put Acceptance Of
Madden Substitute Up
to LasI<er.+
By J. BART CAMPBELL,

International News Service Staff
The proposed Lenroot.McNary.
Willis substitute for the Madden
amendment to the pending ship
subsidy bill may be accepted by the
Administration as q basis Of COM
promise. Senator Curtis. Of Kansas,
the Republican whip" and other
Administration spokesmen in the
Senate. indicated today. 10y
The Madden amendment, adopted
by the House, would require direct
Congressional authorization for an
subsidies granted by the Shipping
Board to private shipping interests.
The proposed Senate sdbsdtuts
would only restrict the bard BY
requiring II to obtain the sanction
by Congress of all increases or de-
creases In the original subsidy.
To Discuss With Laslker.
The suggested compromise win b
discussed today by Senator Jones, Of
Washington, chairman Of the Senate
Commerce Committee. with Chair
man Lasxer. Of the Shipping Board.
II Lasker o. ks II, following . con.
ference he IL expected to first have
with President Harding, Jones II
hopeful that he will be able to se-
cure the elimination Of the Madden
amendment, as requested by tho
President, and to report the bill to-
morrow by majority vote Of his
committee.
Should the administration forces
succeed In forcing the bill through
the Senate without the Madden
amendment. II was pointed out, u
would be thrown into conference
and the whole subject would have to
be threshed out again by the Senate
and House conferences.
House Would Fight.
Chairman Madden. Of the House
Appropriations Committee. who
he offered Il because he and other
leaders were doubt
full II the bill would be passed by
the House without 1t. Republican
Floor Leader Mondell. Of the House,
conferred with Chairman Jones, and
it was stated that IA fresh battle
over the bill In the lower chamber
was regarded as inevitable II Il
were returned there by the Senate
with the amendment missing from
t. -..- ~.
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin,
and other opponents Of the bfn In
the Senate made Il known that they
intended to make the amendment q
fighting point when the bill II taken
up by the Senate, but the Admin
istration leaders were confident they
would gain rather than lose votes
In the Senate by adopting the Len.
root. ot.McNary-Willis amendment asa
substitute for the Madden one. '@
Foresee Filibuster.
The bills opponents frankly ad-
mitted that they were already pre-
pared to resort to every pariia-
mentary and debatable device to
prevent the bill from coming 10 Q
vote by compelling the Administra-
ton leaders to lay It aside from
time to time In order to consider the
money supply bills a. they como
from the House. es 90
When the Senate Commerce com
mittee tackled the bill again today.
for the third successive day, the
taxation provisions adopted by the
House were tentatively agreed 10 by
In majority Of committee members,
and the Madden amendment and the
substitute proposed for II were to b
acted on at the afternoon sees1on,
following Jones expected conference
with Lasker. sis- =
II Jones succeeds with his plan 20
have the bill reported favorably 10
morrow by q majority vote, Il II
not believed that II can be taken
up by the Senate until Monday.