The Washington times., 1922-12-08
AMENDMENT To
!. SHIP A|D;b|LL 4
LIKELY !.
Jones to Put Acceptance Of
Madden Substitute Up
to lasIeer.-
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
International Nsws serxiee staff

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 basis Of COM
promise. Senator Curtis. Of Kansas,
the Republican whip" and other
Administration spokesnen in the
Senate, indicated today.
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 substitute
would only restrict the board by
requiring IL to obtain the sanction
by Congress Of all increases or de-
creases In the original subsidy.
To Discuss with Laslksr.
The suggested compromise win bs
discussed today by Senator Jones, Of
Washington, chairman Of the Senate
Commerce Committee. with Chair
man Lasker. Of the Shipping Board.
II Lasker o. KS II. following . con.
ference he is 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 a majority vote Of his
committee. t
Should the administration forces
succeed in forcing the bill through
the Senate without the Madden
amendment. It 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
sponsored the amendment. said that
he offered II because he and other
Administration 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 "a fresh battle
over the bill In the lower chamber
was regarded as inevitable II II
were returned there by the Senate
with the amendment missing from
II. ... .-.,r
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin,
and other opponents Of the bill In
the Senate made II known that they
intended to make the amendment q
fighting point when the bill is taken
up by the Senate, but the Admin
! istration leaders wtre confident they
would gain rather than lose vores
In the Senate by adopting the Len-
root Willis amendment ASA
substitute for the Madden one. sac
Foreeee Filibuster.
The biil's 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 TO Q
vote by compelling the Administra-
time to time In order to consider the
money supply bills as they coms
from the House. -
When the Senate Commercs 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 Be-
acted on at the afternoon sess1on,
following Jones expected conference
II Jones succeeds with his plaa 30
have the bill reported favorably To-
morrow by q majority vote, Il 10
not believed that II can be taken
up by the Senate until Monday.