The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-25
Fight Made on Appalachian
Bill In a Speech Which
Lasts Five Hours
BURTON'S SPEECH HAS
AN UNLIMITED RANGE
Defeat of Forest Reserve Bill in Sem
~ ate Is Sure, Although the Measure
Has Safely Weathered the
Storms of the House

Washington, June 24-{Special. 1.-THE
Burton filibuster on the Appalachian bill
is generally looked upon as using this
bill as buffer" against all other legis-
lation. Even with the Appalachian bill out
of the way. the unfinished business of the
Senate would be the ship subsidy bill,
which would certainly be talked to death.
The situation as 1t stands tonight. there
fore, favors an adjournment by midnight
tomorrow unless some unforeseen tangle-
ment on conference reports occurs.
Senator Burton continued his filibuster
against the Appalachian bill throughout
the entire days session in so mastery a
manner that the measure Is as good as
dead for this session. 5
Senator Brandegee and the New Eng
land statesmen associated with him in en-
deavoring to shove the bill through prac-
tically admit their defeat tonight, and the
best they hoped for was the passage of
a similar bill through the House tonight,
so that 1t may reach the Senate in time
to go upon the calendar for consideration
next winter. After the remaining confer
ence reports on the sundry civil and gen.
eral deficiency bills are agreed upon to-
morrow friends of the Appalachian meas
ure will try to have date fxed to vote
on It early in December. The opposition
of Senators Burton, Bailey. Newlands and
others is so strong that no such agree
ment can probably be reached.
The bill had enough friends in the House
to prevent that body aljourning until this
afternoon, and at nightfall the House en-
tered into committee of the whole for It's
consideration for four hours Its friends
claim to have enough votes to pass the
bill through both branches, but the Sem
ate f1libuster absolutely blocks such a
vote In the upper branch.
No more mastery filibuster than that
of Senator Burton has ever been con-
Quoted and when he concluded his long
speech this afternoon he served notice
that no such bill shall ever pass Con-
gress If he can prevent It, Although he
spoke nearly seven hours Senator Bur-
ton was only on the quarter stretch when
the Senate adjourned. With economy as
his theme and a wide fund of informa-
tion he discussed every phase Of ma
tional expenditures the growing burden
OF ornaments the growth of arbitration,
the disappearance OF such causes Of war
as the religious battles which ceased with
the peace OF Westphalia, the constant
source of irritation caused by the pos'-
ton of the Mohammedan and Christian
races, celebrating these thoughts as he
ambled along. ind then plunged into an
analysis of sources of making compari-
sons. He discussed the relation of city
10 country life, compared certain Amer
lean tendencies with the Napoleonic re-
gime and the Roman empire. and finally
bl lanching off into the prolific field of con-
scrvation, describing conservation "as a
vague idea among the people that by
some mysterious means everybody will
get something for nothing
Touching occasionally upon the bill,
Senator Burton claimed that this meas
ure would commit the government to the
purchase Of 100000 acres in the Appala-
chan region on the pretense of navigable
streams and that II the bill were car
ried out to its logical conclusion more
millions would have to be spent in build
ing dams. II such projects ware entered
upon by the government IT would be COM
mitted to the expenditure of billions. As
It was, he said, he saw no way Of cur
failing expenditures, and thought that
instead Of saving $500 100000 year. as
predicted by Senator Aldrich, the gov
ernment would soon be adding $30o.0 900
tc its annual expenditures: