Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-24
CHOCKS HOUSE WHEELS
SuIzer Again Delays Congress
sionaI Business.
MERRY TIME AT CAPITOL
Wants Dalzell's Speech Expunged
From the Record.
TO GUARD THAT PUBLICATION
TO GUARD THAT PUBLICATION
Proposes to See That Remarks Not
Delivered Shall Not Be Printed
at Government Expense.

Representative William Bill Sulzer of
New York this morning began his widely
advertised and only genuine living one
man flibuster against the all-powerful
republican machine of the House of Rep
resentatives. AS A mfrth producer the
fiibuster was one grand. bowling success.
More than that. however. 1t succeeded in
knocking couple of business-h
unanimous consents seven ways for Sun
day and altogether delayed the game in
the house by at least couple of hours.
And William Bill has blood in his eye
and is getting madder every minute
Todays performance was precisely ac-
cording to schedule. After the Mann
Sulzer row in the House Yesterday. dur
ing the course of which fine line of con-
versation by Mr.. Sulzer was stricken
from the record. William Bill in order
to get even announced that he would
chock more wheels of business than were
ever checked before. The checking pro-
cess started this morning. There were
some other fireworks. too, that weren't
advertised.
The reading clerk had hardly swallowed
the last word of the journal of yester-
days proceedings when William Bill
hoped to his feet His red hair was
standing on end and he wore a cocky.
chip-on-my-s shoulder air.
'Mr. Speaker he cried in a compel
L
legged resolution
Wants Remarks Expunged.
And how the House did laugh when
the resolution was read. For it con-
tanned nothing more modest than pro-
vision to eXpunge from the Congress
sional Record a speech by Representa-
tive Dalzell of Pennsylva nia one of the
so-called big five" republican leaders
But William Bill didn't mind the
mirth a little bit.
''On the eighteenth of March, said he
after the uproar of applause. derisive
hoots. cat-ealls and the like had died
away, the gentleman from PenEsylya-
MIA, MIR. Dalzell got up in the House
and asked unanimous consent to extend
his remarks in the Record. WHAT re-
marks?' cried Mr.. Sulzer And then.
after long pause, he answered the
question himself.
why, no remarks" he yelled and
the House laughed and hooted and
howled some more, Mr.. Dalzen joining
in.
Although Mr. Dalzen didn't make
any speech the eighteenth of March,,
cried Mr.. SulZer. here is a speech in
the record purporting to have been de-
livered by him on that day. l call the
attention of the House to the fact that
yesterday. on motion of the gentleman
from Illinois. Mr.. Mann the House ex-
plunged from the Record portion Of
speech which l had actually delivered
on the floor of this House.
reflections on the Press
But more than this. The speech OF
Mr. Dalzells to which l have reference
contains serious reflections upon the
members of this House and upon the
members Of the press gallery over yonder.
1t says they don't know what they're
talking about half the time Why, just
the other day member of the German
reichstag called some newspaper men
by some derogatory name''-piggish louts
was the epithet. but Mr.. Sulzer probably
was too delicate to repeat lt-'and they
struck. That's what every newspaper
man in that gallery should do after read
ing Mr.. DalZelis speech
OF course all this line of conversation
from the irrepressible was interrupted at
frequent intervals by laughter and ap-
plause derisive and otherwise, but he
finally got through and turning to Mr..
Dalzell. who had advanced down the
first republican side aisle with his hand
to his ear, Mr.. Sulzer bowed profoundly
and remarked in stentorian tones:
II yield the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania five minutes.
AS soon as Mr.. DalZe.l could make him.
self heard above the racket he admitted.
somewhat to the astonishment of the
House-frankness not being generally con-
ceded to be one of the leading charac-
teristics of the gentleman from Penn
sylvania-that he agreed with Mr.. Sulzer
as to the leave TO print privileges and
its abuses. and would cooperate with him
in suppressng it. Then Mr.. Sulzer got
the floor again
Repeats His Threat.
II served notice yesterday he said
belliserently. that if my remarks were
expunged from the Record l would see
to II for the rest of this session that
not "a word went into the Record but
what was actually spoken on the floor
of this House. | now repeat that warn
ing
Then William Bill sat down. only to
jump up again few moments later with
an Il object TO some unanimous con-
sent proposition He repeated these fill
finally insisted upon the second reading of
the long winded agricultural appropria-
tion bill. something that hasn't been done
in the House for long time-not since
the last time some fiery-tempered. stiff
backbonded. ed-blooded individual OBJ
jected to having the large hulkins ma
jority waIh up and down on his breast
bone.
Who-and Why" comments upon William
Bill in last weeks issue of the Saturday
Evening Post when Mr.. Sulzer first
came to Congress some people thought
he was a fool
Well he isn't. And he'd rather fight
than eat AS result of this only living.
genuine. one-man filibuster, the republi-
cans of the machine who want to see
House business rushed through to facili-
tate an early adjournment of Congress
are biting their finger nails and wonder
ing how long William Bills mad is going
to last.
They haven't an idea. And probably