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Show TOLLS REPEAL DEBATE FIXED Twenty Hours Agreed Upon By House Leaders Vote Probably Saturday. GREAT FIGHT EXPECTED First Guns Being Heard in Senate Congressmen Expect Ex-pect Bill" to Pass. Washington, D. C. March 20. Democratic Dem-ocratic house leaders abandoned tho Idea of only 15 hours' debnte on tho Panama tolls exemption repeal today and agreed to twenty. ThlB would bring a vote probably Saturday. Such a provision in a special rulo brought on soon after tho houso assembled as-sembled at 11 a. m. today, divided the Umo so as to give ten hours for those supporting the repeal, to be controlled by Chairman Adamson, of tho commerce com-merce committee, five hours for the Democrats opposed, to be controlled by Representative Doromus of Michigan, Michi-gan, four hours for the Republicans, to be controlled by Representative Knowland of California, and one hour for the Progressives, to be controlled by Representative Laffcry of Oregon There was a tacit understanding that the debate on adopting the special spe-cial rule would be more limitod than was first proposed and probably would bo to two horn's or less. These arrangemonts cleared tho ways for tho launching of the actual fight in today's session. Nearly 100 speeches have been prepared on both sidos of tho question, and the fight promises to be the most spectacular since the Democratic administration came into power. "While the opening skirmish was one in the houso, tho first guns wore being be-ing heard in tho senate, where Senator Sena-tor Owen delivered a speech supporting support-ing the president's contention for a repeal. President Wilson conferrod witn several congressmen before the house convened. Representatives Covington of Maryland and Bell of Georgia, who are helping to lino up the administration administra-tion forces, told him there would bo a majority of at least fifty on the passage of a special rulo and of about 75 or 100 on the adoption of the repeal. re-peal. on |