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Show WATERWAY BILL BEATEN IN ILLINOIS 8PR1NOKIE1-D. III., June JJ. Speaker Speak-er Adklna wielded the gavel to the defeat de-feat oi the administration's waterway bill In the houfe Unlay. Riotous siencs : followed bv the lack of a floor ltadr kept the waterway adherents from overriding over-riding the pekers ruling. The records show that the bill was defeated by a vote of 76 ayes to nss. I Reprtjsentatlve Leavltt annuunced that ha voted In the affirmative, but ha u ; :recordd against the measure. I Representative W. K. Andenson Insists In-sists that be voted In the affirmative. but la not recorded. These two vots would have given the bill the constitutional constitu-tional majority of 77 votes necessary to Ita passage. |