Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-07-25
By FiIbustering Prevent Passage of the State Pro-
hibitiOn Bill.
FIGHT IS FXPFCTFD TO BE CARRIED ON TODAY.
PrOhS We're Surprised at the Scrap the Small Minority Put IpGea
Crowds Filled the Capital Eager Learn of the Course of the Battle
TeeqramS Poured in From Friends of Ants Urging
Them to Keep Up the Fight-What Will the Four
FifthS of the House Do TO Break
the Opposition Down.

ATLANTA, GA, July 24.-(Special)
From the opening of the morning
session the minority began to filibus-
ter against the passage of the prohi-
bition bill. Although comprising but
one-ffth fthe membership of the
body, the antis acted as solidly and
with as unbroken and determined a
front as the prohis. Their secret con-
ference, at which plans for the de-
laying of the final action on the bill
| was taken, had united them as a unit
and under the leadership of Dunbar,
Hines, Adams, and Barrow, the lat
ter two from Savannah, they made
good their threat that they could and
would hold up the passage of the bill
indefinitely unless some concessions
were made by the prohis and a spirit
of more liberality and fairness eXer-
cised toward the minority.
The same spirit of stiff neckedness
that has marked the prohis the past
few days seemed to have taken pos
session of both sides to the greatest
fight on the liquor question that any
Southern State has even seen in it's
Legislative halls. Following their
leaders the little band of ants, with
utter disregard of the attacks or ap
peals of the prohis, continued dila-
tory tactics throughout the entire day,
demonstrating onclusively that a
well handled minority, even though
|small, can be made very efficient ma
Chine for the hampering of legisla-
|tion. All day endless roll calls used
up the time of the House The gal
leries were crowed with both prohis
and ants, the former vastly predomi-
mating and although held well in or
der, feeling of intense disguest and
disapprobation was apparent among
them at the tactics which seemed to
threaten to rob them of their victory
for today at least, to defer for another
week the final passage of a bill that
will make Georgia dryer than either
Kansas or Maine.
AS hour after hour passed and it
became apparent tina tthe. tactics of
the ants, with their interminable roll
calls of dilatory motions upon mo-
tions, would probably result in a
failure on the part of the House to
take any definite action before mid
night, it then became evident
that the prohis had for the first time
fully become aware of the fact that
under suclaSpnditions victory might
be indefinitely postponed.
AS one leader of the prohis remark
ed, IF little minority can balk us
today and tonight, and keep four
ffths of the House from enc citing the
legislation it wants, tn nett can p~ob-
ably do the same thing on next We'd
nesday unless we can find a parlimen
tary method of suppressing filibuster-
ing. I am in favor of drastic steps to
revent such interference as this with
the will of the House by a recalcitrant
few.
The capitol building has been the
centre of interest all day. Great
crowds of men and women have fill
ed the corridors. Hundreds upon hun
dreds were unable to get into the gal
cries of the House, but remained in
the Iobbies and corridors and offices
of the great building eagerly awaiting