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Show SENATE VOTING ON AMENDMENTS Strong Effort to Bring Disposal of Sedition Bill Before End of Day. FRANCE VOTED DOWN Creel Roasted Penrose and Johnson Make Some Comments Com-ments on Newspaper Man. WASHINGTON, April 9. In an ef-J fort to hasten disposal of the sedition sedi-tion bill, punishing disloyal utterances and those intended to impede the army draft and Liberty loan, voting ion amendments was begun todav by I tho senate and administration leaders hoped to pass the measure before adjournment. ad-journment. Another effort for a final vote today with limited debate was made by Senator Overman, but Senator Sen-ator Reed of Missouri objected. By a vote of 33 to 31 the senate rejected re-jected an amendment by Senator France of Maryland proposing that 'nothing in the bill should impair the I liberty or right of individuals to pub lish or to speak what is true, vim good motives, and for justifiable ends ") Senator Overman opposed the amendment, amend-ment, saying it might impair the bill's enforcemenL A statement attributed to George Creel, chairman of the committee of public information, that "he would be, glad to his d ing day that this country; was not prepared for war." was at ..I Iced during the debate on the Pen rose amendment. "What do you think of an official who would make such a statement9" Senator Sherman asked, addressing Senator Penrose. "It betrays such a lack of good com-1 monse sense that it is worthy of noth- j ing but contempt," Senator Penrose replied. The statement was attributed to I Creel at a meeting of the national Conference of American Lecturers here yesterday "If an humble citizen can be prose- 1 cuted for Indiscreet utterances why should we not have the departments I purged of persons who make disloyal remarks?" asked Senator Penrose. Later the amendment was with- . . . .... . . i nrawn temporarily ana senator i en-rose en-rose announced he would reintroduce It later today. Bl nator Johnson of California also referred to Creels speech characterizing characteriz-ing it is "a very remarkable utterance of a duly authorized official of the 1'nited States which made one feel that he is not fit at this time to engage en-gage in our prosecution of the war." |