The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-20
.F|L|bUSTER ENDS
 INA TRUCE AFTER
 ALL NIGHT SESSION
Fight Over War Claims Bill Causes Twenty-eight
 Hour Session
MANN SUCCEEDS BY
 FORCING SUBSTITUTE
Senate War Claims Bill Is Killed and House Draws Substitute-House Loses Dignity When Mem
 bers Get Sleepy

Loses Dignity When Mem
 bers Get Sleepy Washington. February 19.-A truce, entered into shortly before o'clock this afternoon. brought the long fili- buster in tho House against the omni- bus war claims bill temporarily to an end. The agreement to suspend hos tlities was reached following an in- termission of three hours devoted to memorial services and eulogies to the late Senator Clay of Georgia and the late Representative Brownlow of Ten nessee. The services. occurring at mid day of Sunday seemed to put the House | combatants in a more peaceable frame | of mind. A recess was ordered until | 10 a. m. tomorrow. when the fighting will be resumed.
 When the house convenes tomorrow an effort will be made to adopt a rule shutting off further delay. It will be bitterly fought by new band of fili- busters made up of former advocates of the measure as it come from the senate. Representative Mann of Illinois.
 
 ended his fight when he succeeded in having the old French spoliation and the navy yard overtime claims stricken out.
 Mann Succeeds
 This was accomplished when the House voted to substitute a House bill for the Senate bill. The House bill carries only war claims which have 1 been adiudicated in the court of claims.
 The democrats who were particularly interested in the war claims affecting | southernerns were opposed to the spoil ation claims. When they voted to strike out the latter. however. they lost the support of the republican members who favored the omnibus bill, because it included the French claims Realizing that the new House bill probably had not the slightest chance of passing the senate, MT. Mann ceased his flibuster. It was immediately taken up, however, by Representatives Gardner Of Massa- chusetts, Bonnet and Parsons of New York, and several New England mem- bers The New Englanders declared that unless the bill contained the spoli- ation claims 1t had not passed. They will offer long amendments to the House lbill tomorrow unless the rule excludes them. i5 . a There was talk tonight thatL eral rule would be adopted in the House tomorrow providing for consideration of all bills during the remainder of | the session under suspension of the rules. This means that debate will be cut down almost to nothing and that measures will be rushed through as | fast as possible. This action would dis pose effectuallv of the rumors that some of the House leaders were plan- ming to brin gabout an extra session. If an extra session Is called. as now seems probable. it Is believed the House will be in a position to throw the en- tire blame for 1t upon the Senate.
 In Session All Night
 | The House remained in session all of last night and until a few minutes l of this afternoon. Practically noth- | ing was accomplished during the last | l2 hours of the sitting except the pro- nouncement of the eulogies which were | permitted by unanimous consent The | remainder of the day was spent in waiting for a quorum. Sergeants at | arms were sent broadcast through the city at 6 o'clock this morning. Gener- | ally speaking. they did not serve their warrants on members. until along to- ward 8 o'clock. Even then there was no | physical arrest. the members being l quite willing to return. Half of the | democrats had been sent home to sleer so as to relieve at noon their fatigued | comrades who were holding the fort
 The waits for a quorum were marked by occasional disorder and confusion. Most of the time. however, the House I was being entertained by humorous | speeches and songs. Once several "t the democrats organized mock House in the rear of the chamber, elected Mfr. Hughes of New Jersey speaker and proceeded to pass some remarkable meas ures. Speaker Hughes 'recognized'' himself during the greater part of the session.
 Hold Mock Session | The mock session adjourned when one of the House pages. with remarkably sweet voice. was discovered singing m | the democratic cloak room. Several members lifted the boy to their shoul- ders and bore him to the speakers desk, where he sang for nearly half an hour amid great applause. | Representative Edwards of Georgia stirred the House shortly before noon to- day by declaring that during the height of the debate last night lobbyist for the French claims came to the very doors of the chamber in attempt to
 pass some papers to member of the
 House. r t
 That member said Mir. Edwards.
 comes from New York and Is one of the men now in charge of this filibuster. I I demand to know what the connection
 is between this member and the lob- byist.'
 Does the gentleman refer to me?"s de- manded | -esentative Bennet of New q do nd .o replied MT. Edwards. .. The gentleman from Georgia was
 pressed to name the member. | My Information. derived from good
 source" he said, s that the gentle
 man is Mir Parsons. Representative Eos
 ter of Illinois. democrat in this House,
 intercepted this lobbyist when he was
 attempting to send pamphle. to Mir.
 Parsons It is sad day In the history
 of this country, gentlemen, when the
 very halls of Congress are invaded by
 Iobbyists, when we are compelled to
 transact business on the Lords Day
 and when the will of the great ma-
 iority can be thwarted by few gen. , tlemen who have private interests ,xt
 stake" n Bonnet Speaks
 Mir Bonnet took the floor and said that