The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05

that any president would care to invoke
the power.
The old congress ended amid scenes
of extraordinary excitement and uncer.
tainty. In the house the disorder at
times in the closing hours when the
successful filibuster against the tariff
board bill was in progress became al
most a riot
Representative johnson of Kentucky,
flaring angrily at Speaker Cannon,
shouted above the general roar of CON
fusion a challenge that but for the
speakers gray hairs he would carry the
wordy disagreement to more serious
conclusion.
The speaker, his sparse gray hair
bristling with rage, declared with a
blow of his gavel on his desk, Fthat no
member need let this graw hair be a
bar to anything they had to offer. Z"
The house stood up and cheered,
Filibuster in Senate.
In the senate a fillbuster conducted
by Senator Owen of Oklahoma threat
ened the final approval of four OF the
great appropriat tion measures up to
within half An hour of the time set
! for adjournment. Senators of both par
ties appealed in vain to Senator Owen
to stop talking and let the supply bills
90 through. The senator said he had
set out TO talk to death the resolution
approving the constitution of New Mex
leo and comforting upon that territory
the last rights statehood.
When President Taft arrived at the
capitol at l0;30 o clock to sign the last
of the bills rushed through in the clos
senate at n standstill aud the tariff
board bill absolutely blockading the
progress of the house.
The president was appealed to by the
senate leaders to use whatever influ-
ence he might have with Senator Owen,
The senator declind to see the pres.
ident He said Arizona must come in
Jointly with New Mexico and have her
referendum and recall' legislation ap-
proved at the same time or the appro
priation bills would fail,
Both filbusters accomplished their
Immediate purpose. The senate did not
approve the constitution of New Mex
leo and the house did not pass the tariff
board bill.
Hands Of Clock Turned Back.
When the fiIibusters had been brought
to close the time remaining was toe
short and the time honored custom oi
turning back the clock was resorted to
JDrlce IN Cne mousse Lne HdDdS Oh Int
two clocks were set back, each tlme
fifteen minutes. The senate resorted tC
this device but once, the hands being
pushed back a full half hour, The sen
ate adjourned at 1920; the house "a
r l2:37.
/, All OF the big appropriation bills final
Iy managed to squeeze through i'll time
10 secure the approval of the president
The work OF whipping these measure!
into final shape and engrcssing then
taxed 10 their utmost tile system at TN
capitol and at the government printin,
= office lei 5ht OF the bills, carrying mor'
, ,han scycn hundred million dollars. wer
rushed through In the last forty cJg:
hours OF the session.
When the excitement and uHcertalnt,
! as to the fate of the appropriation bill
{ had died away and the vice president
gavel had fallen in adjournment of til
senate, the news came that senate
Bailey Of Texas had resigned. II va
: said he was unified over the action o
: his Democratic colleagues in not follow
2 ing his leadership during the last fey
. davs,
The rumor was discrediicd at first. bu
|. X was confirmed by the senator himsel
l and the sensation In the senate win
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