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Show VETO I VOTE I FAILS I House Unable to Pass H Daylight Saving H Repeal. H i WASHINGTON. July 14 Repeal of the daylight savings law became a dead issue for the present, at least, by the failure of the house today to pass the agricultural appropriation bill over President Wilson's veto. The ote was 217 to 135, proponents of re- I peal mustering twenty -three votes less ! than the required two-thirds majority. The agricultural bill will be passed 1 i with the repeal rider eliminated. It ;was said that no effort would be made I I to pass the repeal measure as a sep- 1 arate bill as it undoubtedly would be I vetoed by the presidenL Under the j . now defeated rider, the law would hare ! been repealed on October 26. j w kSHINGTON, July 14 The house " tailed to pass the agricultural appropriation approp-riation bill, with Its rider repealing the daylight saving law. over the veto of J; President Wilson. The vote was 24 7 to 135. or 23 affirmative af-firmative votes less than the required two-thirds majority. j i Wartime Prohibition Stands WASHINGTON. July 14 An attempt to force repeal of wartime prohibition failed today in the house. On a point j of order raised by Chairman Volstead of the Judiciary committee, an amendment amend-ment to the pending prohibition en-forcement en-forcement bill proposed by Represen- ii tative Igoe, Democrat, Missouri, was ruled out of order. |