Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-25
SuLzER ON THE JOB
0ne-Man Fi|ibuster Still in
Progress at Capitol.
HE OBJECTS AND is HAPPY
Speaker Gets Busy With Gavel and
Then Apologies.
NEW YORKER WINS POINT
HE OBJECTS AND is HAPPY
NEW YORKER WINS POINT
Checks the Speedy Consideration Of
an Appropriation Bill and Retires
for Refreshing Smoke.

on hand bright and early this morning.
a trifIe wan and pale as result Of the
terrific mental and physical strain in
volved in successfully maintaining his
only living genuine one-man filibuster
against the republican machine. but
otherwise all to the paprika. His Titan
hair showed the effects Of a long night
Of idea seeking clutches. and his back
hone was SO stiff and straight he had
to call page to pick up his kandker-
chief
William Bill looked fit and wasn't back
ward about saying SO. He told a reporter
for The Star that he was trained to the
minute and cou:Sn't possibly be in better
physical condition for the third round of
his single-handed filibuster.
Say. if l felt any better, I'd hurt my
SELF remarked Mr.. Sulzer, just before
the House convened. I'm going to show
this bunch how they do things up in little
old Nu Yawk.'
Right on the Minute.
During the preliminaries. of the session
Mr.. Sulzer occupied his accustomed seat
up front. right under the Speakers nose,
and dawdled with the rules and regula-
tions Of the Sixtieth Congress and sev-
eral other solemn-ooking volumes, but at
the tap Of the business gong he was out
of his seat, trying to attract he Speaker S
attention. Somebody got in ahead Of him
however. Mr.. Cannon appearing some
what blind in the eye that wandered over
Mr.. Suffers way, and for a little while
the business of the House proceeded. in
terrupted as far as noise was concerned
by William Bills repeated wells Of Mr..
Speaker. Mr.. Speaker. Mr.. Speaker"
And William Bills voice didn't get any
softer as he went along. Finally the
reiterations seemed to get on Mr.. Can.
mons nerves, and he turned to Mr.. Sulzel
with a somewhat auerulous air and in.
quired:
For what purpose does the gentleman
II want to make a parliamentary in
quiry." replied Mr.. Sulzer, in the gentle
though unmistakable accent of East Nu
Yawk
Exercise for the Speaker.
Speaker Cannon banged his desk until
the skylight ratified.
There is nothing before the House for
the gentleman to inquire about he re-
piled sharply. and, of course, everybody
laughed.
Then Mr.. Cannon was reminded by Ashe
Kinds. the parliamentarian who stands
at his elbow and guides him through the
mazes of the parliamentary canebrakes
that there was some kind of a motion be-
fore the House, and Uncle Joe. turning in
Mr.. Suffers direction. placed his hand or
his heart, bowed profoundly. and apollo.
gized.
THE chair" he said, Apologies to the
gentleman from New York. The chair
was in error. There is motion before the
House.
William Bill was not to be outdone.
He placed his right Smithf1eld over that
portion of the anatomy which is sup
posed to work in close harmony with
the appetite. and bowling until his Titan
locks brushed the desk in front of him
he remarked:
That's all right. Mr.. Chair. The gen.
tleman from Nu Yawk is often in error
himself"
Always in Pleasant Mood.
But this little interchange Of pleas
antries did not mean that the only living
genuine one-man f1lfbuster had gotten
over its mad. 1t merely meant that
William Bill could be pleasant even un-
der the most adverse conditions.
For when Representative Gillette, in
charge of the legislative. executive and
judicial appropriation bill which is now
in conference. climbed to his feet with a
tentative. hopeful. too-good- to- be- true
smile and asked unanimous consent to
call up the bill in order that the House
might disagree to the Senate amend
ments. Mr.. Sulzer uttered a deep throaty
II object"
So Mr.. Gillette had to move that the
House go into d committee of the whole
and take an hour and a half or so to do
what otherwise. except for the operation
of the only living genuine one-man fill
buster. would have been done in minute
and half.
1And Mr.. Suizer. having accomplished
this much. retired to the cloakroom for
q smoke. He didn't get off the premises,
though. and every now and then he came
to the door of the cloakroom and stuck
out his head for a glance around just to
assure himself that the House was per
forming according to the standards and
ideals of William Bill. proprietor and
general manager of the only living genuine
one-man filibuster.
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