| Show THE BILL STRANGLED STRAXCLED t Off Goes the Head of Torreys Bankruptcy Bank-ruptcy Measure Washington Dee 8In the House Kilgore of Texas called up a bill tot to-t admit Utah to statehood and Republicans r cans began to filibuster ri The morning hour expired without 7 action on the bill the House went into f committee of the whole on the bankruptcy bank-ruptcy bill I was strangled unexpectedly by the House just as the considering of the fjt bill under the five minutes rule was f about to begin S Oates champion of the measure had L declined to permit the House to vote on Baileys substitute providing simply I i for a voluntary system of bankruptcy t whereupon Bland precipitated the entire en-tire question by moving t strike out C the enacting clause of the bill Vainly the advocates of the measure protested i was unfair t reject the bill before the House had had a chance i to perfect It by amendment The pleadings plead-ings were unavailable The vote was decisive and was carried by a majority of 142 to 1I c Judge Torrey the author of the measure who has been here ten years promoting the interests of the bU sat disconsolately in the gallery The vote r was not a strict party one the analysis analy-sis shows 115 Democrats and 18 Republicans Repub-licans nine Populists voted to striker r p the enacting clause and 64 Repub ltnf and 47 Democrats against t |
