The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-01
All Night Filibuster Ends With Greatly Cleared
 Situation
RECIPROCITY FORCES RECEIVE RAY OF HOPE
Permanent Tariff Board Bill Is .- vanced Important Step--Battling
 Legislators Struggle All Night Long

hpun lHe reSolullOn 10 unseat senator LOT inner of Illinois and to make unfinished business of the bill to create per manent tariff board materially improved the legislative situation.
 This improvement does not by any means wipe out the probability of an ex- tra session of Congress, but it gave a ray of hope which was seized upon eag- erly by the advocates of Canadian reel procity.
 The storm clouds in the Senate which hung menaoingly low through an all-nighr session last night, lifted materially late today, and when an adjournment was taken shortly after p. m. until Il o'clock tomorrow there was promise of further clearing of the legislative skies.
 After Q day of constant search for basis of agreement and amid scene of extraordinary intensity of interest and evident mutual suspicion the pro- Lorimer senators, most of them opposed to the tariff board, and the pro-tariff board members, most of them opposed to Lorimer. got together about 6 o'clock inS modus vivend which cleared the stu%8 ton and obviated the impending danger of another protracted night session.
 So there will be vote tomorrow after noon on Senator Lormers case, and there Is little reason to doubt that it will sus- tain Lorrner.
 The tariff board proposition Is at least in materially improved position.
 The vote of B to 2l by which it was made the unfinished business would in- dicate that should it come to a vote the bill would be passed by substantial ma jority. Some go far to say that 1t will receive the entire republican vote of the Senate.
 Attempt Appropriations Today
 Senator Hale gave notice he would at tempt to put five appropriation bills through tomorrow afternoon and evening | These are the agricultural. the post office. the diplomatic and consular. the l Qualifications and the military academy | supply measures.
 r. Nas stafna tonaltt tkse 'as t.a l todays Arrangement clearing up the sii . I ,atjon il practically was agreed that tI,. | proposed increased rates on postage on l the large magazines would be dropped from the posioffice bill, ending the possi- l bility of filibuster on that measure l It was stated further that some other | seriously controversed items in appropria- . l lions bills likely to cause delay would be eliminated.
 If Senator Hale's programme is car ried out tomorrow and there is every reason to believe it will be. the Senate 1 will be left with only the sundrv civil. | the naval and the general deficiency ap- | propria ton bills to dispose of The senator from Maine warned senators to- day that unless they acfei upon the anDr0nTiatiOn mi har i.f, strong chance that many of the most important of these would come in extra session from a democratic House
 Although made the unfinished business of the senate by a decisive vote. the permanent tariff board bill cannot be said to be of the rocks by any means. The advocates of reciprocity took hope tonight but that was about as far as they felt justified in going. They have held all along that if reciprocity could be gotten out of the open. with no other measure pending and behind which sena- tors might mask their opposition to the agreement. a vote easily could be reached Hangs in Balance
 Tine end of the Senate tangle over the Lormer matter and the permanent tar fir board bill came late today, after a series of conferences between the war ring factions which began when tine recess of the all-night session had been ordered tniS morning.
 When the informal conserenct agree ment was brought to the floor. k wever. 1t seemed threatened with defeaA,. Fo nearly an hour the agreement to kote on the Lorimer case at .ao o'clock so- morrow afternoon hung in the balance. II had to be adopted by unanimous cor sent and each time the vice president put the motion some senator was on his feet protesting that he would object f some modification could not be agre to. The principal thing most of the ators seemed to want was to avc session tonight. Many of the SC, are comparatively elderly men
 all-night session-to ssy nothing
 in succession-draws heavily
 tality.
 the chamber when for the M
 President sherman annosA
 ton for unanimous consent\
 mer matter
 ''1s there objection?" He puA ton with the greatest deliberaA q
 The silence for a moment was or... sive. The crowded galleries were hushea The brief interval allowed by the vice president was exaggerated by the unrer- tainty into what seemed an interminable wait. But at last the ivory savel fell
 ''The chair hears none, and the order Is entered
 Long Night Ends
 Vice President sherman gazed veariiy over the Senate and loved idly with hls favorite ivory gavel as the electric lights were turned out the chamber today and the gray daylight was allowed 10 stream In. Dressed in evening clothes which he wore at midnight when he came from his annual reception to official Wash ington. Mfr Sherman looked strangely out of place. He had no use for the ivory gavel The Senate had been h session all night and individually and collectively the members were too tired to create any disorder.
 MT. sherman left the chair at 7:i5 to he succeeded by Senator Rrandeeee, es Connecticut.
 Another fiiibuster was in progress. Another name had been added to the list of ''lorx distance talkerx.s' Tho lung. Of Senator Crawford of South Dakots, were the medium through which A vote on the l.orfmer case had been prevented during the night sn the face of the determination on the part or sen- ator Lorime,s supporters to put the en- durnnce Of his opponents to a tej
 More members and older ,nemhs4 were kept in the Senate chamber throurho,,, the night. more than any occasion with in the recollection of experienced ieri. i;.tors present. Asain and assin the,4l were roll calls to develop whether tne, was q quorum and not once did tf -~~~->~~~-~~~~~>~~>-~~~