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Show TAKING OVER RAILWAYS Italian Ministry Receives a Vote of Confidence. NEW YORK, July 31. After a four days' special session for the discussion discus-sion of the Government railway bill providing the funds for taking over the railways at a valuation with compensation compen-sation for expenditure, the Ministry of SIgnor Fortis received a vote of confidence confi-dence Sunday In the chamber of deputies dep-uties by a majority of 132, cables the Herald's Rome correspondent. The chamber was prorogued- until November, Novem-ber, when the bill will be again taken up. King Victor Emmanuel came to Rome to open the special session. The debate was very animated, the Socialist Social-ist and Republican deputies attacking the Government proposals with great violence and threatening prolonged obstruction ob-struction on each clause of the railwav bill. The estimates provided for a payment to the railway companies of S56.000.000 to settle, the difference between the Government and the three great companies. |