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Show 100,000 SPIES NOW IN COUNTRY, WASHINGTON, Feb.' 21. There arc 100,000 spies in this country, Senator Sen-ator Overman of North Carolina, speaking for the administration, told the senate today, in urging prompt passage of the spy and conspiracy measures wgRcstcd by the depart-: depart-: incut of iustice. He said the department of justice, ever since the outbreak of the European Eu-ropean war, had been unable to cope effectively with conspiracies because of inadequate legislation. Senator Overman declared his intention in-tention of keeping the senate in scs-ion scs-ion until midnight, if necessary, to pass the bill. Senator Cummins declared de-clared it would be at least some hours before it would be passed." "Is that a threat?" asked Senator Overman. "No, only a prophecy," retorted Cummin. |
