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Show ITHE ESGH RAIL BILL PASSED BY HOUSE FINAL ACTION CAME ON RAILWAY MEASURE AFTER SIX DAYS OF DEBATE. Openly Declared by Opponents o Plan Guaranteeing Operation for Six Months That Issue Will be Made Political One. Washington. On virtually a party vote of 203 to 1.19 the liouse Monday night passed and sent to the senate the Esch railroad reorganization bill. Final action came after six days of continuous debate. The Democrats made the passage of the measure a party issue as a protest pro-test against the section which continues contin-ues the guaranteed operating income of the railroads for six months after the termination of federal control. It was openly declared by the Democrat leaders that this issue will be carried into the national campaign of 1920. The first intimation of a partisan split on the bill came when Representative Represen-tative Sims of Tennessee, ranking Democrat member of the interstate commerce committee, which drafted the measure, made a last-hour motion to recommit. The motion carried the instruction to the committee to strike out the guaranty section and report the bill to the house immediately. The vote against the Sims motion was 200 to 165, with the Republicans and Democrats lining up almost solidly solid-ly for and against the guaranty, respectively. re-spectively. The minority then recorded record-ed its protest by opposing final passage pas-sage of the bill. |