Show EXPECT YET 10 WIN STATEHOOD FIGHT Insurgents Are Not Signing the Pledge so Numerously as Expected. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. Opposition among the Republican members of the House to the Hamilton Joint Statehood bill seems to bo making little headway The leaders of the Insurgents have prepared pre-pared a pi. dgS for the signature of Republicans Re-publicans who will vote to defeat a rule preventing am'mlmr-nts to the Hamilton bill. This was freely circulated today among the opponents of Joint Statehood and Is now said to hear forty -live signatures. signa-tures. Twenty Are Undecided. About twenty Republican members are undecided on the Statehood flgnt and the struggle to win them by tile opposing factions t waxing hot. The Insurgents Insist thnt many of their sympathizers have not yet hud an opportunity to sign the pledge and claim that they will r-adllv obtain more than sixty names Administration supporters declare the total Hlretigth of their Opponents Is not muih more than forty. Anxious to Delay. An urgent deficiency bill will he ready for the consideration of the Mouse In a fw days arid it U now expected that this bill will be laid before the House immediately immedi-ately befon tht Philippines tariff bill has been disposed of ao the leaders are said io he anxious to delav the Statehood State-hood bill until Speak r Cannon Is more certnin how the Republican members stand on the measure. |