The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-03
The FILIBUSTER ENDS
After a Session Lasting Until
4 O'clock This Morning.
Feeling Safe, Long Distance
Takers Had Gone Home.

washington, March 3.-Order out
of chaos was brought at sos o'clock
this morning when the senate after
listening to many hours of filibuster-
ing reached an agreement that at $3.50
o'clock Saturday morning vote
would be taken on the bill to create a
permanent tariff board. 1t was like
snatching a brand from the burning
when friends of the measure accom-
plished that result. What had been
supposed to be the death knell for
this measure had been sounded sew
eral hours before. The senate at 4
o'clock adjourned until 10 o'clock to-
day,
Unfamiliarity with the rules of the
senate on the part of the men who
were engineering the obstructive tao
tics was responsible for the crumbling
Of the opposition. Senator Stone. con-
fdent of his ability to hold the floor
for the night had permitted the coterie
of long distance takers, who were to
relieve him to go to their homes.
Learning that fact, Senator BeVeridge
invoked rule nineteen" to take Sem
ator Stone from the floor. Under this
rule, no senator shall speak more
than twice on any subject in debate
on the same day without leave of the
senate"
Senator Stone had spoken early in
the day on the tariff board bill. He
spoke again at the night session. Dur
ing his later speech he moved to pro-
coed with the sundry civil bill, which
motion under the rules of the senate
had the effect of taking him from
the floor pending the disposition of
that motion.
The motion was defeated and at
once upon his attempting to resume
his speech Senator Beveridge made
the point of order that Mr.. Stone had
already spoken twice. Vice President
Sherman was inclined not to provoke
a controversy and at once asked Mr..
Stone if he had spoken twice Mr..
Stone decided he could not remember
Thereupon the vice president called on
official stenographers and it was
found that their notes verified Mr..
Beveridge's point. Mr.. Sherman sus-
tanned the point of order which de-
prived Mr.. Stone of the floor. 1t was
2 o'clock when Mr.. Stone was COM
PEELED to take his seat. Senator Over
man essayed to fill his shoes but was
not equipped for long speech and an
hour later the agreement was made
fixing the time for vote.
Stone Forces Adjournment
AT the request of several senators
the agreement included the taking up
of the navy appropriation bill but af-
ter that had been considered for a lit
tie less than an hour, Mr.. Stone forced
an adjournment. He made a point of
no quorum and as so many senators
had gone home after getting the tar
iff board bill out of the way it was i'm
possible to muster enough senators
to remain in session.
Considerable bitterness was exhibit
ed by Democratic senators when Mr.
Stone was taken from the floor. The
Missouri senator himself protested
loudly that the record of his previous
speeches should be read so that the
senate might judge whether he had
exhausted his right under the rules to
speak on the tariff board bill.
The vice president declined to read
these speeches and called Mr.. Stone
to order when he declared the ruling
of the chair to be arbitrary and un-
just.
Mr. Stone, repeating the charge.
tested against the word of the stencg-
rapher being taken against the word
of a senator. Mr.. Sherman said the
word of the senator had not been
given; that when called on to say
whether he had spoken twice that day
the senator had declared he could not
recall having done so. Mr.. Sherman
said his only course had been to have
the record Of debate examined.
Ran Out of Wind
Not having any speakers present
who would undertake to hold the floor
for the remainder of the night and
during the following forenoon Sena-
tor Stone was willing listener to a