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Show WATERWAY BILL HAS BEENDEFEATED Springfield, Ills., June 23. Speaker Adkins wielded the gavel to the defeat de-feat of the administration's waterway bill in the house today. Rioting scenes followed, owing to the lack of the floor leader, and the water adherents were kept from over-riding the speaker. speak-er. The bill was defeated by a vote of 75 to 25. Mr. Leavitt voted In the affirmative, af-firmative, but he is recorded against the measure. Representative W. E. Anderson Insists that ho voted In the affirmative but is not recorded. These two votes would have given the bill the constitutional majority of 77 votes necessary to its passage. |