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Show uu President Wilson's Personal Pressure Being Brought to Bear on Congress. WASHINGTON, May 24. Under President Wilson's personal pressuro for a newspaper censorship section In Jho espionage bill, all indications today to-day were that tho question would again be taken to the floor of congress for more discussion and another vote. If the conferees, as was indicated today, report a now censorship section, sec-tion, the houso will first debate and vote upon It. If rejected there, its defeat de-feat as a part of the espionage measure meas-ure will bo final without necessity for the senate to reconsider the question. When the conferees resume tomorrow, tomor-row, Senator Overman will offer a sub stituto for the Gard amendment now in the house bill. The Overman proposal would authorize au-thorize the president to prescribe rules to prevent disclosure of information infor-mation regarding military operations but would not prevent criticism of public officials or policies. |