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Show MAY VOTE-ON REPEAL , ON SATURDAY NIGHT Measure Will Be Kept Constantly Con-stantly Before Senate Beginning Be-ginning on Wednesday. WASHINGTON". Juno 1. Developments Develop-ments in t lie senate today encouraged leaders in Uk- belief that the vote on the canal tolls exemption repeal bill will be taken on ba t u rl ay n i gh t . Although an effort to secure unanimous unani-mous consent for a vote at 4 o'clock Friday failed, Senator O 'Gorman, leader lead-er of the forces opposing repeal, announced an-nounced that, beginning Wednesday, the bill would be kept constantly before be-fore the senate until it was disposed of. With the adoption of this pla.ii the bill will come up automatically at 1 o'clock each day and will not be displaced dis-placed by appropriation bills or other measures. During the day a conference between be-tween Senators Kern, Simmons and Lodge, at which the forces for and against repeal were reckoned, led to an announcement by Senator Simmons that he expected the bill to receive fifty -two votes. Senator Simmons asserted as-serted he did not imiludr any senators counted as doubtful. If his prediction is fulfilled the repeal bill will have a majority of nine. Senator O 'Gorman made the proposal that the senate make an agreement for a vote Friday. Senator Cummins objected, saying he would oppose any sim iiar attempt to fix a time for a vote. He said lie believed be-lieved the proper way was to keep the bill continually before the senate until the vote came. Senators Colt and Myers spoke in favor of repeal today and Senator Catron opposed it. Senator Sen-ator Pittman introduced an amendment which would empower the president to reduce the tolls rate on American coastwise coast-wise ships or exempt them when necessary neces-sary to prevent discrimination. |