Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 3 | Overman Bill Vote Comes Today

OVERMAN BILL VOTE COMES TODAY Administration Leaders Determine to Force Showdown in Judiciary Committee. WASHINGTON", March 14. With the hope of soon getting the measure before' the senate, administration leaders w night planned to force a vote tomorrow in the judiciary committee on the Overman Over-man hill, authorizing the president to reorganize government departments to facilitate "war work. Senator Overman of North Carolina, chairman of the committee, said He would accept minor amendments proposed pro-posed to t he bill, limiting the president's power to the period of the war, and providing pro-viding for the return of the departments to their pre-war status at the conclusion conclu-sion of peace. Thero were no indications, however, of a compromise on the major provisions o the measure.