The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-27
Filibustering Tactics Adopted in
 House Yesterday
WILLIAMS AND CANNON
MT. Towney Accuses the Democratic Leader of Using the Floor of the House to Play a PoIiti-
 cal Game.

bho lBhl-hOlT law III me cadldl Soile 4io opposed the rule because it was legisla- tion of a general nature which should be considered by a committee rather than tackled on a general appropriation bill. :,
 MT. Speaker" said MT. Underwood in the course of his remarks. You are .@e- privfng the great laboring vote of the United States of the opportunity to come before the appropriate committee and give their evidence as to why this proposition should not be adopted and why it is detrimental to the labor conditions of this country If they desire to do so; and I can say to you I know they do desire to do so. For adopting this rule fresh out of the box. and forcing the House to vote on 1t now without proper consideration in the proper committee, 1 consider there Is no reason. You have ample opportun- ity to consider this proposition in the correct and legitimate way There is no great speed A bill can be introduced if you wish to change this law. referred to the committee on the judiciary, and hearing can be had on 1t within two weeks. And they could properly report their conclusions within month.
 Could State Their Objections.
 Then the other side would have had a hearing. They would have been enabled to state to members of the House their legitimate objections to this change in the laws of the country that relates to them; and you do not propose to give them an opportunity to be heard, but you propose to violate. to change the rules of the House of Representatives and put this legislation on this appropriation bill by force
 MT Speaker. you say that this re- lates to alien labor. One might be led to believe that you did not know any thing about the principles of which the contention for the eight-hour were found ed when you state that proposition. Is not the alien laborer the competitor of Amer lean labor as any other American laborer? If you want to keep up the standards of American labor must you not keep up the standard of his competitors? If you pull down the standard of the competitor of American labor and open the field for his competitor, down must come the standard of American labor with it, of necessity"
 Resort to FilIbusterIng. The first attempt at flibustering at this session occurred in the House today in
  vision of the urgent deficiency bill waiv- ing the eight-hour law for foreign labor CTS on the Panama canal. The amendment was placed in the bill in committee of the whole after the House had divided many times on a pretext which Minority Lead CT Williams could make the cause of A vote" The bill to which the amendment was proposed was finally finished late in the day, a demand for a separate vote and roll call on that amendment was made and ordered, at which time the House adjourned.
 The vote will occur at the first business tomorrow. H
 The amendment was ruled out of the bill on a point of order on Tuesday, and its insertion today was effected under the provisions of special rule brought in from the rules committee for that pur- pose. A roll call was had on the previous question on a rule. which was the test vote, and it was carried by 153 to 9S, the democrats making up the minority vote. The only other controversy of the day resulted from an attempt to increase by $l15,000 the amount for meat inspection by the department of agriculture. This in- crease was refused after an animated de- bate in which Chairman Tawney char acterized the movement as an attempt by the department to coerce Congress Into giving more money than the secretary had estimates for. Those favoring the amendment did so. they stated, in the in- terests of the cattle industry of the coun- try.
 Mir. Williams Is Vigorous.
 Addressing himself directly to Speaker Cannon, MT. Williams began his castiga- tion of the proposition to waive the eight hour law on the canal work by saying. "Either the republican party of which you, MT. Speaker. are the most distin- guished chief outside the White House, Is guilty of a hypocritical policy or 1t is not It has Haunted itself as supporting our entire fiscal system and to maintain American standards of hours ana wage, and yet the very first opportunity that presents itself the republican party rep resented by you and the committee on rules bring in a rule to do whatp To let the United States as an employer of labor set the example of defying and dispensing with its hours of labor"
 MT. Williams said he predicted that "one more drop will overthrow the cup of your insolence, and this is about the drop that will do it.''
 The efforts of MT. Williams were sec onded by MT. Fitzgerald of New York and MT. Underwood of Alabama In concluding in favor of the rule MT. Tawney said with some evidence of petulance:
 Tawney Is Hurt. We have again witnessed on the floor of this House the attempt of the leaders of the democracy to play politics in, a matter pertaining entirely to the business of the government and the economical expenditure of public money. Their solci- tude for American labor Is never exhib- ited except when they think they can open way to prejudices."
 He said their Injury to American labor in the passage of the Wilson tariff bill, which resulted in a despalring search for bread Illustrated their real record It was strange to him that in the present case they should not have solicitude for the American labor which would have to bear it's part of the tax with which to build the canal. The vote was then taken When Speaker Cannon announced after a roll call that the rule was adopted 146 to 1O2 MT. Underwood moved to recon slider the vote"
 MT. Dalzell immediately added, and I move to lay that motion on the table"
 Upon that motion l demand the yeas and nays declared MT. Williams.
 There happened to be but twenty dem- ocrats in their places to support MT Williams.
 Not enough declared the speaker
 T demand the other side" said Mr Williams.
 One hundred and one republicans op- posed the motion.
 MT. Williams at once made the point of quorum. Some amusement resulted from the speakers count of the House which resulted after some delay in the announcement of 194 present