Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-08-28
HOUSE AND SENATE
ARE DEADLOCKED
Plans for Adjournment of Con-
greSS Are Off.
OLD STATE CLAIMS IS CAUSE
Amendments to General Deficiency
Appropriation Bill Cause Dramat-
ic and Unprecedented Situation
From Legislative Viewpoint.

Washington, Aug 26.-All definite
plans for the adjournment of congress
are off. The session which was to
have ended Saturday night still ex-
lists, given new life at the break of
dawn on Sunday.
The senate and house are dead
locked over the general deficiency ap-
preparation bill. The house is bitterly
unyleldlog; f1libuster within a fill
buster is on in the senate, and no
member of either body knows when
the second session of the Sixty-second
congress will adjourn sine die.
Deadlock Is Complete.
II the tempers of senators and mem
bers of the house cool today, the end
: may come tomorrow. 1t may be two
days hence; it may be week or more
A congress has never faced such a
complicated deadlock as that which
demonstrated the truth of the axiom
that the best laiG plans of men oft go
aWry. The house adjourned at 4:24
o'clock Sunday morning until noon to-
day. The senate adjourned at 4:38 I'M
til the same hour. All night the two
bodies had fought over four amend
ments to the general deficiency bill,
the last of the annual appropriation
measures.
These amendments concern claims of
the states of Oregon, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Texas against the United
States government. Some of the
claims are more than a hundred years
old. They amount in the aggregate
to about 100000.
The senators from these states say
adjournment cannot be taken unless
the deficiency bill provides for these
claims and also for an extra months
pay for the employees of the house and
senate The house, by practically
unanimous vote, asserted that it would
never, never yield.
The bitterest of feeling prevails.
The situation is dramatic and unpre-
cedented from a legislative stand
point.
Members Are Angry.
AS daybreak came Sunday taxicabs
and automobiles whirled up to the en-
frances of the senate and house. Sen
ators and congressman, muttering an
grlly, entered the machines and gave
orders to be taken home. Many of
them expected to leave Washington,
had railway transportation in their
pockets, and they we're a sore and dis
gusted lot. Few spoke and probably
nobody smiled
The president of the United States
left the senate wing of the capitol at
4:12 a. m. He had waited all night
for the agreement on the general def
cheney bill. A special train stood at
the Union station, prepared to take
the president to Beverly The order
for the train was Cancelled.
Taft Plans Are Upset.
Mr.. Taft was angry, too. Anticipat-
ing that congress would adjourn Sat
urday afternoon, the president ar
ranged to leave for Beverly at $3.50
o'clock. The conferees on the remain
ing supply bills were still cajoling and
threatening each other. Then the pres
ident planned to go at 1910. He sat
impatiently in the marble room when
that hour arrived. Another train left
at 1890, but it left without the presi-
dent, his secretary, aide and the Sc
cret service men.
When the hour of AIS arrived Mr..
Taft climbed rather dejectedly into
the White House automobile and re-
turned to the White House. A few
minutes later the senate and house,
nopelessly deadlocked, adjourned.