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Show SHIP SUDSIDY FORCED THROUGH Insurgents Whipped Dack Into Line After Measure Had Deen Defeated. Washington. It has boon years slnco tho houso wns the scono of so general a battle between the two great parties as took place Frldny over tho ship subsidy bill. Tho bill wns passed, but not until after It had been defeated, and tills fact In Itself shows how closo tho alignment was When tho Art vote disclosed a may jorlty against tho measure, tho Democrats Demo-crats and their Hepubllcnn allies made tho houso ring with tholr cheers Thero wero several rollcnlls before tho final favornblo result wus secured Tho I.lttauer substitute was defeated de-feated on the first vote, ayes 1C4, nayi 1C1. The Democrats could not retain re-tain their lend, however, for on voto to lay on tho table, u motion to reconsider, the opponents of tho shl subsidy wore defeated, 1C0 to 159 and vote to reconsider tho ilrst vote was adopted, 1C4 to 1C1. Immediately after tho first ballot desertions began, nnd nn tho Una) voto to pass the bill as nmendod the work done by tho Republican lendora during tho heat of tho hattlo was mado manifest. The bill was passed 155 to 149. |