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Show SENATE ILL ROT CHANGERATE SILL Measure Will Be Passed Practically Prac-tically as It Game From tho House. NO HOPE FOR OPPONENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT Congress Anxious to Rush Business Bus-iness Through in Order to Adjourn Early. WASHINGTON. March 2. That tho railroad rate bUl will bo passed by the Senato practlcnlly as It camo from the Holism, Is an admission that tho opponents oppon-ents of the measure are almost ready to make. It wns admitted thtit they cannot hope for any nsslstnnce from tho President In getting an amendment for Judicial review of orders of tho Interstate Commerce commsslon. The President made this clear to Senators Crane and Spooner today. The only hopo left to the opponents of tho measure Is In tho Democrats. Thoy hav not definitely determined what tho party position will bo toward such an rmendment. but It Is admitted that moro than naif of tho minority favor passing tho bill exactly as It enmo from tho House. Tho railroad rato bill for several days has been regarcd as tho one measure standing In the way of an parly adjournment adjourn-ment of Congn'93. One of tho leading Republican Senutors, a member of tho steering committee, declared today that "tho Pnlllpplne tariff bill, tho Statohood bill and the Santo Domingo treaty are all dead." Statehood Bill. He qualified his statement concerning tho Statehood bill by saying that he meant that the friends of the bill could not pass It without the l'orakcr amendment amend-ment providing for submission to tho votes of the people of New Mexico and Arizona separately the question whether thev should have Joint Statehood. A poll of tho Senate today showed that If voted upon now. the Koraker amendment amend-ment would win. 8 to 40, providing the en-tlro en-tlro vote of the Senato waa cast. . A vote on the Philippine tariff bill In commlttco Is scheduled for tomorrow. A hasty poll of the Senate taken today Indicates that If brought to a vote, tho Philippine tariff bill will be defeated by a much larger vote than was found for the Forakcr amendment to tho Statehood bill. Test Vote in Senate. In the event the bill Is defeated In tho committee iho opponents have expressed tho Intention of making a motion In the Senate to havo tho committee discharged from further consideration of the measure, meas-ure, and thus finally dispose of It by a test vote on such a motion. Pracllcallv all of the Semite leaders concede that the Santo Domingo treaty will be defeated if brought to a vote, and tho plan generally favored is to defeat tho treaty as early as possible, and thus avoid continued discussion of It. Under this general programme outlined by Senate Republican leaders a great amount of expected oratory would be eliminated. The leaders Bay freely that Congress will ndjourn early, and May 1 has boon numed as the latest probablo date. |