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Show Harbors Bill and Farm Aid Close Washington. The defeat of the movement, more or less official on tl e part of the leaders for congress ;o adjourn June 30 is due to new developments develop-ments about two bills farm relief and rivers and harbors. The continuous uncertainty as to when adjournment will occur is due to the same cause. As to the farm relief bill, the best recent judgment is that it has not sis-cured sis-cured enough supporters in the senate to pass it. The motive of the new recruits re-cruits is partly the wish of individual ( senators to go on record for the sake of the impression of their farm constituents. consti-tuents. In the common judgment, however, the larger motive is to cause embarrassment to the administration and to the Republican leaders responsible respon-sible for legislation. The phrase, "Put the administration in a hole," is heard with increasing frequency. This motive mo-tive is ascribed not only to Democrats and insurgent Republicans, but also to some Republican senators and others highly placed who are supposed to be most orthodox in the regular Republicanism. Re-publicanism. If the senate passes the farm relief bill, the house must do homething about it. Ordinarily the house would decline to nasa tho Mil I because it has aleady debated it in ! j a form no more acceptable than it is j now and has rejected it by a vote of i 212 to 167. But if the house declines 1 , to do anything, then adjournment will provide the country with the spectacle j of farm relief passed by the senate, i but left in the house. j ! i |