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Show SHIPPING BILL IS PASSED li LOWER HOUSE Representatives Declare for Administration Measure by a Vote of 215 to 121; Adjournment Taken. BALLOT IS FORCED BY SPECIAL RULE Five Progressives Join With Democrats in Final Struggle; Strug-gle; Mann Makes Effort to Continue Filibuster. .WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Tie government gov-ernment ship purchase bill, as an amendment amend-ment to the Weeks naval auxiliary bill; was passed by the house at 1:20 o'clock this morning by a vote of 215 to 121. The passage of the bill followed a fourtcen-hour parliamentary struggle which, until lon after midnight, threatened threat-ened to .extend interminably, because of a determined filibuster, led by Minority Mi-nority leader Mann, who yielded only after administration leaders decided to apply a second special rule to bring the I fight to an cud, Tho bill will go to the scnato at noon today. Nineteen Democrats voted against the bill. They wero Bathrick, Bor-chers, Bor-chers, Callaway, Dies, Donohoe, Fitzgerald, Fitz-gerald, Gerry, Gordon, Jones, ICindcl, Kitchiu, Morrison, Moss of Indiana, Page of North Carolina, Saunders, Slaydeu, Whitacre, White and Withcr-spoou. Withcr-spoou. All of the Republicans present voted against tho bill, and five Progressives joined with (he Democratic majority for it, as follows: Bryan and Kelly of Pennsylvania, MacDoDald, Lafferty and Murdock. Time Limit Included. The ship bill as it will go to the sen- i ate from the house includes the ship purchase measure .as agreed upon in sonate caucus and a provision that two years after tho close of the European war ships acquired by the United States shall be turned over to the secretary of the navy to be operated or leased for commercial purposes under the terms of the Weeks bill, already passed by the senate. Senator Smoot has given notice that the debate will be continued by the opposition op-position until March 4 unless the Democrats Demo-crats withdraw the measure or some unusual un-usual tactics are resorted to by administration admin-istration forces. Chargps of improper influeiu-es exerted ex-erted with relation to the bill ordered investigated by the senate ,vesterday were taken under consideration today by tho special senate committee, and the formal inquiry will begin tomorrow morning. Bernard N. Baker of Baltimore, former for-mer manager of the Atlantic Transport lino, and Siffniuod Albert of New York, representative of some of the German-American German-American steamship companies, have been summoned by the committee and are expected to appear at that time. Democrats Lose Round. ' With Senator Norris the only "Republican "Re-publican voting with them and Senator La Follette lining up with the Republicans Republi-cans for the first time during the shipping ship-ping bill fight. Democrats lost a round in the cloture struggle when the senate refused, 47 to 45, to lay on the table the Cummins amendment to the Norris general cloture rule. The amendment would prohibit any senator bound by caucus agreement from voting on a measure for the passage of which the cloture rule might be invoked. It seemed probable tonight that the parliamentary tangle over the various proposals nover would be cleared up and that the wholo cloture struggle would be abandoned as soon as the house shipping ship-ping bill was received. Todnv's debate was marked by a sharp iutcrchauge between Senators Cummins and Keed. Senator Cummins assailed Democratic caucus action in supporting his amendment, while Senator Sen-ator Reed charged that the agreement between Republicans and insurgent Democrats had all the effect of a cau- CUrhare in the house proceeded slowly throuclioui the alternoon ai.-i cv.niTii;. haHed lime and aMain by nll calls d'- rranded bv Republican leader Mann, vvhen Hie bill had b?en before the house I'or ten hours, only four of the six hours allowed f"f (leliate had bfen ccujsun.cd. (Continued on Fago Eleven.) SHIP BILL PISSED B! REPRESENTATIVES (Continued from Page One.) tne roll had been called eiiht times on point:, of no quorum and motions to adjourn, ad-journ, and it became apparent a vote probably could not be reached before midnight. Representatives Humphrey t Washington, Washing-ton, Moore of Pennsylvania, Madden oi Illinois and other Republicans spoke against the measure, and Representatives A. lam son. Georgia; Stall, North Carolina Caro-lina ; Kagle. Te.as ; McKeUar, Tennessee, an J ot her Democrats .supported It. Galleries Crowded. Both floor and galleries were crowded as the debate neared a close. Representative Repre-sentative Mann made the concluding arguments argu-ments against the bill, declaring he opposed op-posed it because it was unnecessary and liable to involve the United States in international in-ternational complications. '"I believe the presfdent is sincere in his desire to maintain absolute neutrality," neutral-ity," S3 id Mr. Mann. "In i hat respect I stand behind him. I want to keep this country out of war. Tf we reach the point where we have to fight for our rights we 1 will all fight with equal enthusiasm, but we ought to take no steps that lead to trouble, and this bill may involve foreign difficulties and perhaps war." Representative Alexander of Missouri closed the debate for the bill with a vigorous vigor-ous defense of President Wilson. "Let us take it for granted that this bill originated at the White House." he said. "Can you find a better source? There is no man of higher ideals, of more profound learning, of higher statesman-, ship than the man In the White House : today. Jt is not becoming, It is undignified, undigni-fied, it is contemptible for you Republicans Repub-licans to try to slur him. "If the Republican leader is right in his statement that he believes the president presi-dent is sincere in his desire for neutrality, what becomes of all these predictions that this bill will lead to war? Certainly the |