Show senate III I 1 philippines BILL PARTY LINES BROKEN WHEN FINAL VOTE COMES ON SELF government MEASURES it Is 1 understood the bill will go to the house with the backing of president wilson find and will be peered pressed for early passage washington the philippine bill would extend to the islands a greater degree of self government and would authorize the president to grant them absolute independence within four years passed the senate on feb auary 4 by a vote of fifty two to twenty four various democratic sen store led by chairman stone of the foreign relations committee tried un successfully to lecuru amendment of certain feature of the independence clause but in the end the democrats joined by elx six progressive republicans voted solidly for the measure it is understood the bill will go to the house with the backing of dent wilson and will be pressed for early passage there has been little indication of what action the house will take but administration leaders seem confident that the bill including the independence feature which dem socratic senators declare squares it with the baltimore platform would have the approval ot of the house den dem socratic majority the republican senators who voted for the bill were borsh clapp ken yon la follette norris and works |