Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-04
INDIAN BILL DEFEATED
BY FILiBUSTER TACTICS
At Times During Past Twenty Four
Hours All Were in Danger.
ARM0RY LOST TO DISTRICT
Item for Funds Cut Out in Senate
Just Before Public Buildings
Measure Passes-Sessions
Late Into Morning.

Despite fiibusters threatened and fill
busters started. despite utimatums
against compromise and proclamations of
deadlocks and irreconcilabe differences
all of the appropriation bills except the
Indian supply measure were passed by
Congress before the session adjourned
sine die at noon today. Those passed
direct expenditures totaling we'll over a
billion dollars during the ascal year be-
ginning July | neXt-the first of the new
democratic administration The one thai
failed to be approved by Congress carried
but Il paltry $1O,OOo,0oO, approximately.
1t was talked to death by Senator Fail
of New Mexico
At times during the last twenty-four
hours of the session, it seemed that the
public buildings bill, the naval appropria-
ton bill, the legislative appropriation bill
and possibly some others would surely
fail to get congressional approval But,
one by one. conflicting views were rec
Onciled and agreements were reached that
brought about their ratification by Con-
gresS.
Both houses sat far into the night to
complete the task they had set them
selyes-the Senate being in session until
after o'clock and the House. until after 3
O. clock this morning. The final touches
were applied under the shadow of the in
augural ceremonies just before noon.
Filibusters Develop.
AS the Senate entered the homestretch,
with the finish line only few hours
away, of the Sixty-second Congress in the
middle of yesterday afternoon incipient
filibusters were bobbing up in the Senate
every few minutes Within a short time
well defined filibusters were in operation
or developing over the conference report
on the Indian appropriation bill, the con-
ference report on the public buildings bill
and the attempt to pass the workmen' 8
compensation bill as it was enacted in the
House 'la.e Saturday night In the mid
die of the afternoon it appeared that all
three of these measures were doomed.
Word was passed around the Senate
about that time that the conference on
the naval bill, involving the battleship
fight as between one and two ships. was
deadiocked and that the prospects We're
that the bill would fail for that reason.
Soon after Senator Warren made an
nouncements to the Senate that predicted
the failure of the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill-the meas
ure that carries the salaries for practi-
cally all government officials. The at
tempt of the Senate to save western as
say offices, it was Indicated, had brought
about irreconcilable differences between
the two houses of Congress that would
result in the sacrifice of the whole meas
ure
The sundry civil and general deficiency
appropriation bills We're still in confer
ence with many differences to be ad-
justed.
The filibuster over the public buildings
bill was the first to develop in the SEN
ate Senator Lodge was determined to
prevent the passage of the bill without
provision for the requirement of the low
er valley of Rock creek at a cost of
So, 100000. and Senator Root of New York
desired to save the provision for $3OOO.-
OOO for the pstnhase of a New York