The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
Faces Certain Failure With Close of Congress Today
TIE DEMOCRATS F|L|BUSTER
carmack Keeps Senate Convulsed. Scorns Subterfuge and Addresses FiIibusters"-Starts With
 Endorsing Webster.

o'clock today by fay the larger part of the session of the Senate was devoted 10 a fllbuster by the democratic senators against a ship subsidy bill as it passed the House, and when the Senate adj jcurned few minutes before midnight the bill was still pending, but it was faeing absolutely certain failure with the Close of the Congress at noon tomorrow. Speeches intended for no other purpose than 10 kill time, were made by Senators Carmack, Dubois, Overman, Newlands and others who frankly confessed then intention of defeating consideration of the measure.
 When the recess was taken at 11:40 the friends of the bill had given up all hope of securing any shipping legislation dur ing the present session.
 Never before has the Senate appeared to relish so much an attempt to kill leg islaton by filibusterng methods. Mr Carmack as director of the minority movement against the bill, kept the mem- bers convulsed with his sallies and at no time did he try to hide the fact that his effort was iilibuster pure and sim pie. He scorned subterfuge and at the outset of his remarks came into the open by addressing himself principally to the term "dlbusters," which MT. Gal finger only yesterday applied to the dem ocratic senators who have undertaken to defeat the measure,
 Brings in Webster.
 First Mr Carmack devoted himself to an endorsement of Websters dictionary as an authority on orthography md de- 1inition, and said that if the Senate had any doubt that this work was an author ity he would bring it in and ask that passages from it be read at the desk.
 After reading Wcbstar's definition O. sniibusterer' with it's varying uses and synonyms, MT. Carmaclt said that the remark of MT. Gallnger had branded him as d ''marauder, pillager, a buccaneer a sea robber, freebooter and 8 pirate upon the seas.'' In fact he said, T have been accused of almost everything ex- cept appendicitis So branded, l am to be retired from this body and sent to my home, for l cannot defend myself by at tacking the character or the credtbility of the senator from New Hampshire. cannot discredit him truthfully, and therefore l cannot dscredit him at all.' When he had spoken for about forty five minutes with the obvious purpose of killing time, MT. Carmack paused looked at his watch and remarked:
 well, l see I must be hurrying along" At this the senators on the FOOT shouted their amusement.
 To give MT. Carmack rest, MT. Du bois asked to be permitted to read from very interesting document on the sub ject of ship subsidy, and Mir. Spooner pro tested that as Mir Carmack in so great d hurry to conclude, it would not be fair to interrupt him. The Tennessee senator, however, said he was sure any contribution of MT Dubois would be valu- I,a cl,A ha ola ff to be read and incorporated in the body of his remarks. Mir. Dubois then read at length and when he had concluded a very technical paragraph, to which few sena- tors paid any attention, MT. Carmack asked that the last paragraph be re- peated. as he regarded it of great inn nortance. Laughter followed, and as MT. Dubois sat down MT. Gallinger interrupted to reply, he said to what he thought had been an unwarranted attack upon him.
 Discuss Filbuster.
 At this juncture .a colloquy occurred between MT. Gallinger and MT. Carmack over the definition of the word "hlibus- ter' as given in the different dictionaries, and the latter charged that MT. Gallinger had simply been trying to "filibuster ac- cording to his own definition of the word
 Charging that the pending measure was for the purpose of footing the treas urv." Mir Carmack referred to the bill as voting a ',subventon," and MT. Me Lauren asked the difference between .'subsidy" and ''subvention." 2 Nr Carmack answered. Subsidy by any other name smells as bad"
 Mr. Carter added to the spirit of levity by interrupting the reading of letters from shipbuilders by MT. Overman, who was giving Mr. Carmack a respite.
 ta ly,,nx Caid IT. .wiat if any dictionary is used in Ten nessee. and what if any standard of spell ing exists, and if it is uniformly ap- pied?'
 This gave MT. Carmack an opening which he took advantage of to taunt Senators Carter and Galnger with being parties to a filibuster
 Observing that my question ambar- rasses the senator" interjected Mir. Car ter. 'inasmuch as he is probably not willing to admit that the dictionary is un- known in that state, l will withdraw the question:
 If the senator wants direct answer" said Mir. Carmack. Tennessee stands by the constitution and Webster's diction- ary."
 Just as Senator Tillman had produced burst of laughter during the discussion of the amount of steel in ship by asking how much ''stealv there was in ship sub sidy, Senator Frye of Maine took occasion to rebuke the whole proceeding un- seemly. and undignified for the Senate to hold a session on the Sabbath day. He re- marked the ''soe purpose of frivolous amusement for the galleries was about the most unseemly proceeding he had ever witnessed While he spoke, MT. Frye turned so as to face Senator Carmack. who was seated. He at once arose and re- piled:
 .s[f the senator refers to me, I will say that I am not responsible to him for my conduct, and I shall conduct my self according to my own notions of pro- priety.
 Lively Incident.
 If the senator from Maine does not like my manner he has my permission to leave the chamber and go where he can attend church if he would prefer.
 q would much rather be in church. retorted Mir. Frye.
 "If the senator would like te take q