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Show SUP MIL BILL L GOES TOPRESIDENT ( Measure Almost an Exact Du- j plicate of the One Vetoed by Mr. Taft. j t WASHINGTON, Juno 13. Only the approval of the president now is need- ed to make a law of tho sundrv civil J appropriation bill, with the exemption of labor organizations and farmers' associations as-sociations from anti-trust 'prosecutions j with funds provided by the measure. By a vote of 15 to .12' tho senate re- J ceded today from its opposition to an item in tho bill, as it passed the house, reducing tho number of members of the j board of managers of national soldiers' 1 homes from eleven to five. This was J tho only remaining item of disagreement disagree-ment between tho two houses. Tho suggestion that the senate re- 1 cede was" made by Senator Martin, 1 chairman of the senate conforccs on the bill. He informed tho senate that the house insisted upon the reduction . of membership and would defeat, the entire, bill rather than have it go j through without the change. Senator Ncwlands of Nevada denounced de-nounced the action of tho house in in- . sisting upon legislating in' an appropn- (j ation bill, as indefensible and danger- ous. Senator Works of California expressed ex-pressed himself in favor of abolishing the entire board and placing the niau- , agemeut of the homes under the war i department. The bill has been in conference since May 9. Tt. is almost an exact duplicate dupli-cate of the measure vetoed by Presi- i dent Taft becauso it contained the pro- ij vision that none of the money appro- J printed for the enforRpmfmt of the Sherman anti-trust law should be used to prosecute labor organizations or i farmers' associations. Delay in acting on the measure has J embarraBfied various branches of the government. Only yesterday the department de-partment of commerce announced that 1 the inhabitants of the Pribylof islands, H Alaska, were on tho verge of famine -I because tho bureau of fisheries was without money with which to dispatch supply vessels. ' 1 |