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Show SITE DEMOCRATS STILLLAGK VOTES WASHINGTON, Feb. 4,-Frustrated again today in their plan to recommit the government ship purchase bill, with Instructions for its amendment, administration adminis-tration leaders of the senate tonight were considering-, a proposal to let the bill go to committee without instructions with a view to bringing it up again on a motion mo-tion to discharge the committee if It should fail to act promptly. Champions of the- bill found themselves lacking at least two of , a majority and and with no possibility of changing- this situation , until next Monday at the earliest. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill, said he would be willing to vote to recommit re-commit if he could have assurance of enough votes to carry a motion to discharge dis-charge the committee. If no other way out can be found, ad- ministration senators purpose to prevent i any vote until Senators Newlands of Ne- I vada and Smith of South Carolina return) to "Washington next week. Then with j the vote 4S to 48, barring changes from ! the present lineup, they would count upon 1 Vice President Marshall to break a tie , in their favor. All seven of the revolting ! Democrats are standing firm with the : Republicans, but administration leaders count upon Senators La Follette and Nor-ris Nor-ris making forty-six votes, while the Republicans Re-publicans had forty-eight today. |