Show SUBSiDY SIDY STEAL NOW HANGING IN BALANCE Fate of tile the Measure May Alay be Settled This We Week Weck k Opposition n Confident of Success I 4 Senator se ator Spooner Announces That He Will Push the Gr ou ott Bill BUI Rather Than the Shipping Loot Washington n feb Beta eb 3 The Republicans intend to continue pressing the subsIdy bill In the senate and end the die say Y next week will develop whether or not the opposition intend to talk tim the mess meas measure ure nrc to death The senators aerators who o J are leading the opposition My any th that 4 there are enough speeches to o oo eM ten days day and that Rep are lending encouragement e ment to the lbs r against t in the bilL MIL TIle The opposition believe that the desire lre i to avoid an aB extra non ses session lion sion will soon force Coree the Mils bills and the war revenue to the front and prevent C or w a vote upon the shipping bW bUt bIlLA bUtA A great deal depends US tte INC cess cese of the Republicans Re in ia sessions seaton next week If they w up with a quorum until a rate te for three or four foul nights i the te e Ion might weaken weak n The TIle say ay that the must most dea strate ate that they have a majority for the bill which wilt will sit eit t up with tt it and show how they are determined to pass it As to the tb extra session ion talk senators who haw have seen the prudent presIdent any y he be feels that It H is necessary but n they ey are almost unanimous against an extra session ion se and nd will do everything possible to prevent one being beine called Will Push Grout Bill Senator Spooner today authorised the statement that if it should hould become necessary essary to do so he will wUl move the Ute sub substitution substitution substitution of the oleomargarine bill b l as the regular rf guar order of ot business In Ia the senate instead in of the pending ship skip sub subsidy sidy nitty hilL bill IlI Mr dr Spooner has never been considered among the zealous sealous advocate rates cate of ot the subsidy bill and He Sic is very strongly favorable to the oleomargarine ine Inc bill It was his hiB original intention to make his motion to substitute early next week but he ho h appears to have bae abandoned this idea as s to the time for tor he declined in his authorised statement to name rasme a time He said aid You can say that some ome time before the final adjournment on the th of Mardi March I will move to take up p the oleomargarine bill Mil regardless of ot whether nether or 01 not the Shipping bUt bill re so remains mains the t unfinished uD I shall do this because I Ik the oleomargarine prIDe garine bill Mil shoal be beet acted d upon during the present t session The TN bill billUe has passed Ue I b If the oleomargarine n passes th i wail trill II stand stane a die to heroine become e ea a law while the I not tx hav hew having havIng ing lug passed either house houst would not hav nave have e equal ual chances I cannot say When I Ishall Ishall shall move in the matter realtor but J I will ill do du doso dono so no Jong long enough before the 4 of to give the senate time to act upon the oleomargarine bill Think Thank Subsidy Grab Will Pail Fail The declaration of Senator Sen tOl Spooner afforded A great satisfaction to the opposition opposition to whom it wa was w read They now assert ert Ad greet great confidence in ia their ability to accomplish h the defeat of the subsidy bill during durin the present nt session and today were apparently teore ore confident in that direction titan than tey have yet been They say they can talk upon toile the bill until the ith of Man MarcOt but evi evidently evidently dently they do not expect to have bae to do doso doso doso so It lt is not HOt probable that Senator Alli Au Allison Auson son will move moe to take up the District Distri t of Columbia appropriation bill Monday as at he has baa heretofore given at notice that he would but there Is little doubt that he will move inov e in tibet that direction later In m Inthe Inthe the week It Is also aIo understood that when Mr Allison on makes this motion meLlon Senator Frye will not demand a vote upon the question of consideration com thus pitting the subsidy bill against the appropriation appropriation tion tiun bill He said today that he would press the bill to the utmost but only until it should be considered eo necessary to take up the appropriation bills The general understanding Is I that he will not antagonize the bills bill when whenever whenever whenever ever it is considered necessary neary l to press them |