Show HOPE TO POSTPONE CUBAN SUGAR BILL I w WASHINGTON ASH Ma 2 25 From present present pres pres- ent indications the Sen Senate te will devote another full week Jf If not timeto time to consider consideration tion of Philippines hill The The predl prediction on is fre freely lY made l. l th that a vote will not be reached reach d before tp the middle Iddle of the fo following week There There are a number numb r bf of s Set speeches p promised on on the bill bU i and some other Senators have not not yet Indicated whethEr whether they will speak or not The continued deferment of the time for tor taking a a vote on on the Philippines measure measure has c considerable abatement abatement abate abate- ment In the prep preparation of ot the discussion discussion discus discus- sion of ot the Nicaragua canal bill and the Cuban reciprocity bill bUl which will willbe be taken up next in succession or jointly The sugar beet people predict a month s debate on the Nicaraguan bill but this prediction is not In accord with the views of ot the advocates advocat s' s of ot the Nicaraguan bill or r i its s opponents on the Isthmian Canal committee Both these elements are n now w claiming a majority and are Saying that the sooner the vote Is rep reported the better they will be satisfied The beet sugar beet sugar men however are counting confidently on the co on of ot the side that finds itS itself lt in the minority minority mi mi- in the matter of postponing pie the vote on the canal bill In In other words the beet sugar beet sugar advocates welcome t the e Introduction of ot any aily question that will defer consideration of the Cuban bill bm since they think that there will be no Cuban Cuba legislation at all if the taking up of ot that question n can can be postponed until after the paSS passage ge of all u the ap appropriation p- p bills |