Show I 1S1NDOUBT UP1O111lt of Porto Ricaii faiuiffBill Iay1Jfat i 5 I t1ii 1asiie FIGHTING CHANGE LEFT 5 t t Many Supporters of Scheme Absent From House S NUMBER WILL NOT RETURN Great Activity Hao Been Manifested 1 in Trying to Get Out tho Full Voto for the Approaching Final Contest Only One Absent Democrat Has Failed to Answer the Telegram to 4 Return Two arc Incapacitated by Sickness With These Exception a Full Vote will be Shown by tin Democracy Heretofore Most of thi Absentees Have Been Paired buB Owing to Confusion a New System Has Been Inaugurated Dead Pairs Have Been Cut Off Special Meeting Meet-ing of Ways and Means Committee ii Washington April 0Great activity was manifested In the House today In getting out the full vote for the ap m f proachlng llnnl contest on the Porlo t Rico bill I I The urgent telegrams sent by tho im supporters of time bill to absent members mem-bers brought a number of responses but It was developed that the number of absentees was unusually large and k the telegraphic exchanges gave no positive pos-itive assurance that all those absent would return 1 S iThls introduces an element of uncer I 1I I itainty > yifh flnal rcsult and encouraged en-couraged time opponents of the bill Ip claim there wits stilt a good fighting chance to defeat It THeretofore T-Heretofore most of the absentees i I have been paired but owing > to the i confusion over pairs and the claims or j I advantage In adroit pairing an entirely en-tirely new pair system has been inaugurated i > inau-gurated A printed slip has been prepared pre-pared succinctly stating the details of the pair making It not transferable and requiring the signature of both parties This cuts oft dead pairs and I also cuts off the numerous private understandings i un-derstandings between members under which a number of pairs have been i conducted 7 Only one absent Democrat has failed to uiswer the telegram to return Two are Incapacitated by sickness With these exceptions a full vote will bo a shown A special meeting of the Ways and Means coinmlllee has bpen called for I tomorrow to consider the Porto RIcan bill Chalrimin Payne says this will r not change the previous plan of taking L up the bill on Wednesday S si |