New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-20
TRUCE DECLARED IN
HOUSE F|L|BUSTER.
HostilitieS Against Omnibus War
Claims Bill Suspended After
Sunday Session.
LOBBYING OPENLY CHARGED
Edwards Accuses Parsons
Fight Will Be Resumed by
New Filibusters
To. day.
From The Tribune Bureau

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From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Feb. 19.-After con-
tinuous session Of thirty hours. and with
the fiIibuster battle lines drawn as taut
as they were in the beginning, the op-
posing factions il the House through
sheer physical exhaustion agreed 10
temporary truce at o'clock this after
noon and took a recess until 10 O'CLOCK
I'm the morning, at which hour the omnl-
bus claims bill will again be taken up.
A filibuster in many respects unprece-
dented kept the House in session all
Saturday night and Sunday morning.
When Sundays dawn came 1t found
fifteen watchers upon the House moor.
They had been picked by the respective
Democratic and Republican factions 10
keep the opposition from putting one
over" From 3:30 o'clock until IL to-
day It waJ impossible 10 obtain
quorum. At the latter holr scores OF
members who had stolen away during
the night to get little rest began to
come i'm and the debate on the bill was
resumed At noon the House took re-
cess for a short time In order to eulo-
gize Senator Clay and Representative
Brownlow. The eulogies over, the fill
buster on the omnibus claims bill, which
has now been on since Friday morning,
was renewed.
Truce Proposed by Law.
Finally. at o'clock this afternoon.
when the strain of the vigil of the night
before had begun to tell. Representative
Law. in charge of the omnibus bill, pro-
posed a truce. Mr.. Mann, Mr.. Gardner,
Of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Bennet, who
during the early morning hours had
ioined hands i'm what may now be
termed a double filiouster. made no par
ticuar objections. There is talk to-
night that the House Rules Committee
NAV meet to-morrow and bring in a
special rule to terminate a filibuster
that threatens. otherwise To last until
noon on March 4.
Mr.. Mann is conducting a flibuster
because he doesn't propose that the
Democrats shall pass the war claims
bill. Mr. Bennett and Mr.. Gardner here
tofore inactive, started filibuster OF
their own just before daybreak to-day
because NJ. Mann and the Democrats
agreed on the proposition to strike the
French sp,liation claims out of the bill.
Nr Gardner and Mr. Bennett are for the
French claims. This is the situation TO-
right. Mr.. Mann will filibuster against
any claims legislation.
The Democrats and sufficient num-
her of Republicans to pass the Dill II
thcv could reach a vote are Determined
TO pass the Civil War claims, amounting
to about S1JO,OO.
Mr. Gardner and Mr.. Bennet declare
that no claims bill shall pass unless the
French spolation items are included.
Following a night of hiarity. where
song and story and occasionally acrimo-
rious debate held sway while the House
waited for a quorum, the House pre-
sorted unique spectacle at dawn to-
dav. The eyes of the vigilants VINO had
boen picked to sit on the i'd were
s,yolIen and red. Their clothes and hair
,vero tousled. they were half dead win
Gloon and decidedly hungry. Away over
=, the corner was a spick and span
member in evening dress. lie had oee''
dragged from a dinner.
Plea for Breakfast.
At 80 o'clock "Tombigbee' Gambler
n Mississippi. so called because or MS
eIoouent pleas for appropriations ior the
Tombigbec River. arose and said:
..ur Sneaker, I demand my constitu-
tional right to get breakfast. I'm nun
erv. You have no right to keep us locked
IN here. If can't go and get breakfast
I want an appropriation out Of the con-
tingent fund to have our breakfasts sent
here"
Mr.. Mann walked in about this time
Discerning that Mr.. Gardner and Mr..
Rennet had begun filibuster of their
own. Mr. Mann slipped away at O'Clock
IN his committee room, where he found
grateful couch.
The light Of battle was in his eyes and
his step was jaunty when he entered the
chamber again. Democrats like Mr.
Clayton Mr. Carlin, Mr. Sims and Mr.
Gambler. of the band of faithful guard
ians. looked at Mr.. Mann cnyiously. 1t
was 10 o'clock before enough Democrats
came in to permit rest for the keepers of
the daybreak vigil.
Many Of the sloepless ones went to
nearby hotels for a nap during the eulo
gies. returning to the House at {; o'clock.
shortly after which the truce flag was
temporarily hoisted.
1t is still the legislative day of Friday,
February IL, in the House. Everywhere
else it is Sunday. Tomorrow will be
Friday, with nothing but the omnibus
claims bill in order
There is, in some '-:arters. grave sus-
picion OF the motives OF Mr.. Bennett, OF
New York, and Mr.. Gardner, OF the
Gloucester district Of Massachusetts,
whose opposition to Canadian reciprocity
is held by come to be a more protent
centive than their anxiety to see the
spoliation claims allowance. And this
further complicates the situation: Rep
resentative Roberts. of Massachusetts,. is
contemplating joining i'm the filibuster to-
morrow to compel the allowance OF GER
tain navy yard overtime ella :.
Edwards Names Parsons.
Representative Edwards. OF Georgia,
stirred the House shortly before noon to-
dag by declaring that during Tie height