The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-02-19
BLOW DEALT THE
OMNIBUS CLAIMS
TRENCH c'-oiLAT.o.; FEATURE
or BILL. CAUSE or FlLiBUS-
TER " HousE.
MANN'S MOTION ADOPTED.
Strikes Out All After Enacting Ciarsc
Session Lasted All Night
Trouble Keeping Quorum
Mo Vote Taken.


Washington, Feb. 19.-After two
days ,.Eibuster tie house Of repre-
sentatives at 1925 this morning prae,
tically killed the omnibus Claims bill,
w,sich the senate had passed, by
adopting the motion of Mr.. Manu., OF
Illinois, to strike out all after the en-
acting clause n the bill, which mad
provided for the French spoilation
claims,
Adoption of this motion had the
effect of eliminating the measure as
senate bill 1t left it as tie 1ouce
bill without any pro~,s:on for the
sroilation claim, which was the di-
rect target of the filibuster
The Republicans are jtoilant over
what they regarded as a shrcwl trick
by Mr. Mann. &
The reading of the house bill was
then proceeded with. The debate on
the bill continued until early today.
SQeeahes wee made On Doth Sides.
Many members dosed IN the cloak
rooms and lobbios. About 100 spec
tators fingered in the galleries to wit
ness any unusual proceedings.
All day and through the evening
the parliamentary proceedings rang
ed frCn acrimonious debate with
s@arp co'loquics to what amounted to
comic ocera.
There were incessant motions, fire.
nuent roll calls and search for a
dozen members to produce quorum.
Fiery speeches, In which warning
finger was pointed to the next ma
tional election. Jibes, burlesques
and ouarries to the chair, vocal solos
and funny stories fuTn s:.ei enter
taiRnent wnileathe house waited for
assent mem5ers.
Cannon Was I-senE
Speaker Cannon was absent during
the evening. Mr.. Olmstead, of Penn
sylvania, occupied the chair.
The fight, for its opponents pre-
vented it Being called filiDus;er, was
conducted single handed by Mr. Mann
one of Speaker Cannon's chief lieu
tenants, while Mr.. Prince, Of Illinois,
chairman Of the claims committee,
Republican, who reported the bill,
and Simms, Of Tennessee, Clayton, OF
Alabama, Calline, cf Vir2iEia, and
other Democrats. fought for the bill
The bill, as it passed the senate
carried s2,352,941, including $S42,GSc
for tho French :poila;.c1 claims. ErtI
the claims committee reported the
bill 80 the house without the French
features.
1t was the spectre of these French
y1oilation claims which the Repub-
Ee1n leasers feared would be tackled
onto the bill in the final conference
between the two horses at so late a
day in the session that the house
might act on the conference report
without an opportunity to vote
against the French claims separately
Conflicting Motives.
Democratic leaders con;ured other
motives in n effort to force an extra
session, so as to embarass the Demo.
cratic party by plunging It into the
throes cf tariff revision before 1t bad
time to prepare for tina, Willie Re
publicans claimed that the shutting
cut of the spoilation rea;ure was the
purpose of the filibuster.
Mr.. Mann denied that his tactics
were dilatory or tilibrs,er:ng, and
reprimanded Democrats who absented
themselves at the previous night ses-
siors.
Those" he said, "were aSry Il
supper, drinking wine, perhaps, hay-
ing a good time, and not at their
posts Of duty"
On the general debate Mr.. Alexan-
der, of Missouri. suggested: Lets
we folks quit talking and get to a
vote" Mr.. Campbell, of Kansas, at
tackled the bill. The house was m
an uproar as the debate ran along
after midnight and many speeches,
some of them fiery, were hooted ana
laughed at.
Vice President Sherman, Speaker
Cannon and several other members
arrived shortly after midnight.
Must Start All over.
Tne motion which was made by
Mann of Illinois, was one of the
shrewdest moves in his filibuster
against the bill 1t means starting
the legislation all over again and the
French spoilation advocates at once
began lighting the bill. They included
Messrs. Currier, of New Hampshire.
Bennett Of New York, Lawrence and
Gardener of Massachusetts and Tilson
Of Connecticut.
When the reading of the house bill
began Mr. Bennett started the filibus-
ter. .Whlleife program is to en-
deavor to rSs the bill in the house
the advocates of the old claims bill
are now divided