The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-23

to with the understanding that bills to relieve the cotton states would be taken up after the elections. Senator Hoke Smith said he might agree to such a plan.
 Filibuster All Day
 Senator Smith and his colleagues ill., 1bustered all day but after several hours yielded long enough for a vote on the war revenue conference report, which was agreed to. 35 to H. An ef- fort then was made to get up the ad- 1ournment resolution, but this was blocked on a motion to table made by the senator from Georgia. Immediately a point of no quorum was made In the meantime the House was without quorum and Representative Underwood conferred with Senate leaders and pre- vailed on them to recess until s:30 o'clock before attempting to adjourn, be cause it was necessary for the House to have quorum present so Speaker Clark might sign the war revenue bill The quorum finally was rounded up, but when the Senate reconvened at 530 the southern senators resumed their filibuster so determined1y that hope of adjournment soon was abandoned
 The House was prepared for final adjournment. Early in the day the war bill conference report had been agreed to. Then Majority Leader Underwood brought in the resolution for the rol- tine of final adjournment. fJ Supporters of cotton relief measu ks announced they would fight adjctsfn- ment unless they could be assured of action on the currency amendments and on the cotton warehouse bill. Ma jority Leader Underwood, however, aid ed by Republican Leader Mann, gath cred his forces together and before the rapidly melting quorum of the House disappeared the final adjournment rcso lutlon and resolution authorizing the appointment of a committee to notify the President that Congress was ready to adjourn were passed.
 Consider Glass Bill
 The House then resumed considera- ton of the Glass bill to authorize banks to issue circulation on commercial pa per up to 100 per cent of the banks capital and surplus. The bill was passed to it's third reading on roll call aft CT a\ two-hour walt foS a quorum. As soon as the quorum appeared the speak CT signed the enrolled war revenue bill and the plans of the leaders for ad- journment were complete. At o'clock Repres entative Mann forced another roll call, confident that before It es- tablished a quorum the Senate would have passed the adjournment resoiu- tion, ending the session. As the roll call progressed and the lack of mem bers enough to do business became ap- parent, even the cotton belt represen- tatives relaxed in the expectation Of adjournment. Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma entertained the scanty mem bership and the scattered crowd in the galleries by organizing a bipartisan quartet which rendered ballads of fare- well. The House took on holiday as- pect When 6 o'clock arrived the hands of the clock were turned back 20 min utes, the House momentarily expecting a Senate messenger announcing lhs passage of the adjournment resoluticnA
 The quartet which had grown to chorus evoked applause with a phenom- ena1 rendition of How Dry am.
 Underwood Enters
 "Then Majority Leader Underwood en- tered the chamber After a whispered conference with the speaker he announced that all hope of final adjournment was lost and that with no prospect of securing quorum in the House before election day there was nothing to be done but to adjourn until tomorrow. And the hundred or more representatives, who had been waiting with their grips in the cloak rooms and their trunks at tho stations filed dejectedly out of the chamber. Some left Washington despite the situation while others cancelled their reservations
 Cotton states leaders on both sides of the capitol asserted that they would con- tinue their fight tomorrow. In the House the southerners, demand the passage of amendments to the currency law, broad ening the credit power of. banks in the federal reserve system. These amend ments. in addition to increasing the amount of currency a bank may issue on commercial paper to 100 per cent of its capital and surplus, would add to the credit power of the reserve system by allowing member banks to deposit in re- serve banks those reserves which must now be held in their own vaults. With those is coupled an amendment authoriz- ing the treasury to institute system of hank note clearances through the fed eial reserve banks and to appoint reserve