The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-23
ADJOURNMENT OF
 CONGRESS HELD UP
 AT LAST MOMENT BY
 THE COTTON FACTION
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financial bill would be passed Whether they will or not remains to be seen. So greatly has the House changed Sem ator Smiths warehouse bill that even should it be passed by the House it will
 have to go to conference.
 Filibustering by southern democrats fighting for legislation to relieve the cotton situation upset carefully laid plans for adjournment of Congress at 6 o'clock tonight.
 Lead by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, the cotton belt members at the last moment prevented action in the Senate on a joint resolution to ad- journ sine die. already passed by the House and tonight it appeared that un- less an agreement could be reached tomorrow for a recess until after the November elections, Congress would stay in session indefinitely without quorum of either house in Washing ton.
 The collapse of the adjournment programme came after every hope for its success had been held out, and su- preme efforts had been made to con- clude the session after adoption in both houses of the conference report on the war tax bill
 A spectacular feature of the situa- tion was dash by President Wilson in an automobile from a golf course to the capitol to reach there in time to sign the war revenue bill before adjournment. The President rushed into the capitol. followed by secret service men, at 645 o'clock in the evening Attired in his golf clothes and with out his reading glasses, he hastened to the Presidents room, where the rev. enue measure, signed by Speaker Clark and Senator Clarke. president pro tenn pore of the Senate. awaited him. Bor- tr1er xlo <<f New Jersey, the President signed the bill and several others.
 Filibustering Active Senators ran in and out of the Presi- dents room, holding their watches. while, Senator Martin vainly sought 1 to have passed the resolution the
 House had passed early in the day.
 providing adjournment sine die at 6 o'clock. At every turn he was met by filibusterfng tactics of Senator Hokc
 Smith, who demanded successive roll
 calls on motions to adjourn until to- morrow, to recess until tomorrow and to proceed to consideration of executive
 business. This kept the Senate busy I until o'clock. the clock in the House having been turned back meanwhile in l the hope that the Senate might pass
 the resolution.
 | When o'clock arrived democratic senators who had been lighting for Adjournment gave up. The House reso- lution had died automatically, and
 Senator Stone moved that the Senate l go into executive session.
 l Majority Leader Underwood then hastened to the House with the an nouncement that there was no hope of adjournment for the session. The House had been waiting sometime
 without quorum present and adjourn :
 men until tomorrow was ordered. Rep- ; resentative. Underwood later said he did not believe it would be possible to get. another quorum to pass an ad- l journment resolution until, after the | elections. Before 6 o'clock had arrived 1 in fact scores of representatives and senators had left town and others took l later trains. Majority Leader Kern and other democratic senators were equal Ily dubious of adjournment now, but it
 was said recess plan might Do agreed