Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-08-26
CONGRESS HAS
HOT FIGHT ON
Fall to Adjourn at Midnight
Saturday and Are Still
WrangIing This Afternoon.
PRESIDENT WAITED LONG
Deadlock Over Bill In Con-
ference and laFoIIette Will
Urge His Resolution.

Washington, August 26.-After a
session that did not end until 4:25
o'clock Sunday morning, the time
being spent in fruitless conferences,
the Senate and House met today with
no change in the legislative dead
lock indicated. Legislators faced an
other day Of jockeying for advantage,
and leaders believed the end of the
session was indefinitely postponed.
After puttering In vain and keeping
the president of the United states sit
ting all night In the senate lobby. both
houses recessed at about daybreak
yesterday until IL o'clock today. In
the meantime many senators and mem
bers Of the house had left town In
disgust, and II the two branches Of
congress come together today neither
will have quorum. Furthermore,
the dawn of another legislative day
finds the belligerent Democratic sena-
tors ready to continue their insistence
that the house shall yield on the $780,
DOC century old state claims In the gen
eral deficiency bill. The house will
efuse.
Add to this determination on the
part Of Senator La Toilette to force
the passage Of the Penrose- Reed reso-
tribut1ons inquiry and you have frst
class mixup. Any attempt to put
through an adjournment resolution
will be blocked on point Of no quor-
um either by La Toilette or the four
fighting Democrats. This will necessi-
tate a summoning Of absentees back to
the national capitol with regiment of
cavalry.
Lot of Bad Feeling Developed.
The unexpected deadlock and the
row over the Penrose Reed resolution
has developed lot Of bad feeling be-
t.. ,on the houses and among the
members of each. Worn out by their
all night session the warning lawmak-
ers are the most disgruntled and dis
consulate lot imaginable No efforts
are made toward patching up differ
ences, and unless tempers cool and
some compromise is effected the coun-
try may be treated to the spectacle of
the slim remainder Of congress mark
ing time while the sergeant at arms
and his deputies go securing the coup-
h try over with warrants for the arrest
.at the. absent members. AS things now
stand everything is in confusion, but
the general impression Is that the sen
ators who sought to force few old
state claims will be obliged to yield
eventually and that the senate itself
will be forced to vote on the Penrose
resolution.
Penrose Chamberlain of Oregon,
who is interested In one Of the claims
in the deficiency bill, Is the most OBJ
streperous Of the senate warriors. He
announced that he stands ready to
make the point of no quorum If the
senate shows a disposition to give in
to the house In the items in contro-
versy. Senator La Toilette, who is
happiest with fight on his hands,
Indicated plainly that he was prepar-
ed to go the limit for the Penrose res
olution.
House viii Not Yield.
The amendments in the deficiency
bill that are kicking up most Of the
trouble concern the claims OF the
states of Oregon, Maryland, Virginia
and Texas. They involve In the ag-
gregate q little more than 100000.
One Of them, the Virginia Maryland
~sala.iiII1, is more than ITO years old. The
others also are hoary. The senators
from the states Interested, while fight
Ing chiefly for these claims, Insist also
upon an appropriation for the pay
ment Of an additional months salary
to the officers and employees of con-
gress
By unanimous vote the house as
serted that it would never yield to the
senate. In this confusion the Repub-
Iicans supported the position Of the
Democratic leaders. According to
statements made in debate, the house
would rather see the bill fail than
passed In the form In which 1t was
adopted by the senate. Heretofore
the house has usually bent the knee
to the senate. On this occasion ap-
parently the lower branch intends to
stands firm.
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