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Show SOUTHERNERS TO STARH FIGHT Want Cotton Clause Stricken Out of Bill-and Propose More Amendments. MAY USE CLOTURE RULE No Prospects of Compromise on Prohibition Fight Majority Ma-jority Favor Dry Bill. WASHINGTON, July 3 Addition of cotton and its products to articles, which the government would control, voted yesterday by the senate today resulted re-sulted in increased opposition to the food bill. Southern senators promised prom-ised a new fight to strike out the cotton cot-ton clause while others plan to later offer amendments eliminating many other articles from the "control" section. sec-tion. Without record votes, the senate adopted many important committee amendments to the bill, including the section defining and punishing hoarding hoard-ing of necessaries and the provision for government licensing of imports, exports, manufacture, storage, mining and distribution of necessaries. The committee amendment limiting licensing to agencies and products in interstate or foreign commerce was a'dopted one of the principal feautres of recent opposition to the legislation. Tho senate also adopted the provision exempting farmers, gardeners and live stock growers from the licensing provisions. pro-visions. May Use Cloture Rule. Despite the progress made, leaders believed it still would be necessary to use the cloture rule in order to reach a vote this week. Lines of division on prohibition were apparently holding fast with no prospects pros-pects of a compromise and a fight and a vote forecast over the question of authorizing the president to suspend manufacture of beer and wines, with both factions agreed upon prohibiting distilling. , t Leaders said private polls Indicate a large majority In favor of prohibiting distillation, but against giving tho president any power over the light bev-pracres. |