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Show IS OPPOSED TO CLOTURE . - : Senator Spqoner nvcighs Against Resclution-on Statehood Bill. WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. The resolution resolu-tion of Senator Quay declaring it is the sense of the Senate that there should be a vote on the Statehood bill, occupied occu-pied a portion of the morning hour in the Senate today. Mr. Spooner opposed it, saying it was in a sense a cloture, to which he was opposed, or a censure upon up-on the minority, which he did not think was right. . j "Under the present rules," he maintained, main-tained, "the interests of the country are better served than if there was a cloture. clo-ture. The resolution, he insisted, calls on the Senate practically to put a vote of cloture upon those who happen to be conscientiously opposed to the omnibus Statehood bilL" No action was taken on the Quay resolution or a substitute by Mr. Mc-Comas, Mc-Comas, and the Senate at 1:40 p. m. went Into executive session to consider the Colombian treaty. |