Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-08-26
House is Firm in Its Deter
mination to Defeat Sen
ate Proposition.
OTHER. STATE CLAIMS
Chairman Fitzgerald Says House
Will Remain in Session Until Decem
Der to Defeat Proposition.

The fate of the appropriation OF
S120,000 to be used in the construc.
tion Of the Mount Vernon Avenue
from Washington to Mt. Vernon
through Alexandria is still hanging in
the balance in Congress. There has
been no change since Saturday when
the Senate amendments to the gene
raj deficiency bill, which included this
appropriation, was sent to conference
All Saturday night and yesterday
morning the conferees made every eff
fort to get together and while some
of the small matters were yielded by
managers on the big items which in
clude repayment to several states for
moneys advanced the federal govern
ment both sides were firm.
Senator Chamberlain, who led Sen
ate filibuster, the object of which was
to force the House to agreee to the
payment of 100000 of old State
claims, will have the support of many
Senate Democrats if he renews his in
sistence to hold Congress until these
claims are paid. The House leaders
are determined to fight the claims
until December" if necessary.
The State claims which have aroused
the resentment of the House were all
added to the general deficiency bill in
the Senate. In the case of the Mary
land claim of $4,000 and the Virginia
claim of $120,000 House conferees in,
sist that the amounts now demanded
by those States as "loans" that were
made to the government as an induce
mentment for the location of the Ma
tional Capital in the present District
of Columbia.
The Texas claim of $21T693.39 is
to reimburse the State for money
spent from 1853 to 1861 in "defense
of the Texas frontier against Mexi-
can marauders and Indian depreda-
tors" The Oregon claim of $685.
543.O2 is for the expense of raising
volunteers for the Indian wars from
1862 to 1867.
There was no one at the Capital
this morning willing to risk as ar
opinion as to the outcome Of the mat
ter.
With a quorum of neither body in
the city, and with even the newly ap'
pointed whip pro tenn of the House
en- route home, the Senate and House
meet at noon today as completely
deadlocked as two Legislative assem-,
blies may be.
There has been practically nc
change in the situation since daybreak
Sunday morning, when the two
branches of Congress, bitterly de-
nouncing each other, adjourned unit
noon today. A double filibuster is or
in the Senate and the flibusterine
Senators have so far declined to yielc
to the opportunities of their col
leagues who want to end the session
today.
The House is simply standing un
der the Capitol dome and battling
for our rights" The lower body ha:
no intention whatever of yielding tt
the Senate on the general deficienc!
bill, and if the session ends today the
flibustering Senators must bend thu
knee. The House will not.
In fact, there are less than tw'
score members of the House in Wash
ington. Many left yesterday, dis
pusted over the failure of the plans tt
bring the weary session to a close
Saturday afternoon. The same stat'
of affairs exists in the Senate. Ina
body is without quorum, SIX Sena
tors have gone since the wrangle O.
Saturday night and Sunday morning
and if the filibuster in that body con
tinus, the session will. last anotne'
week or so, because it will require
that length of time to call back tn