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Show HOPE FIH EARLY VOTE i smonii BILL Both Supporters and Opponents of Measure Arc Determined on Fight. WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. -I.-Senator Bcverldgo will again have charge of the blalohood bill and is hopeful of securing a. comparatively early vote, but many of Hocoll5-'aKUes foU to "Eree with him on tnat point. i-Tu supPrt!ra of tho bill are strenuous w - ?d'04cacy anl their opponents are JvIIN hT"?11' u ia not generally expected that cither side will yield until hrCniS, "re lcn,nite Information as to ILrobaWc' rosult of a vtc than can now be secured. Stick on Foraker Amendment. h7hthCrr.tlca! P0lnt ot controversy will be tho Foraker amendment, giving the Arizona people the privilege of voting on the question -of admission. It is understood under-stood that the Democratic Senators will be almost a unit In support of this amendment and that it will also secure a number of Republican votes, tw htnv lnany Republican supporters fhSr b.e ,s not known. ami until hrnnLlcn1,t0 Information on that point ho opponents of tho bill will not agree to let a vote bo taken. "feree Friends May Yield. If the showing should be favorable to tho enactment, the friends of the bill may not press the vote, but In view of the fact that they would, even in that w' Hf SUrc. tl,e Emission oC Oklahoma, Okla-homa, they might not be so determined as their opponents. mmea They will probably meet Mr. Foraker's proposition for a separate vote with one S?iJi ub,I?,M,on ,of l'ie question of ad? i thf pIoplc of Ar'"ona and New Mexico combined. |