The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-14
FL BUSTER BY
 DONOVAN MEANT
 TO LIMIT TALK. Connecticut Congressman, Single Handed, Tries to
 Halt Flow of Oratory CALL FOR QUORUM DRAWS THE MEMBERS Legislators Plead With " Jerry" for Chance to At
 tend Baseball Game
Ry. our Special correapondent.1

# G3yz our special COrreSpOnQeur.1 3s Washington, July 14-The Washing ton Times; Qnd.) stated yesterday un- der the caption, Starts House Fiji
 buster to Prevent Speeches.:
 sCongressman Jerry Donovan of Connecticut started a one man dFibus- ter in the house yesterday against the general dehciency appropriation bill. Mir. Donovan had no objection to the bill as such but he kicked vigorously when it was proposed by Congressman Fitzgerald, in charge of the measure, that general debate should continue for eight hours, to be equally divided on each side of the chamber
 Does that mean that members will follow the usual custom and get up here and talk about anything under the sun ?.' asked MT. Donovan.
 "A member who gets recognition dur ing general dabate may talk on any subject that he chooses said MT. Fitzgerald.
 And then they will continue: to talk about a lot of irrelevant things under the five minute ruIe.,' asked Jerry
 T cannot promise what the House will do'' said MT. Fitzgerald.
 MT. Mann, the minority leader. called for the regular order,'' which meant putting the question Of objection.
 z-Who asks for the regular order?'' asked the Connecticut member, belig- erent1y.
 .The gentleman from Illinois, said the Speaker.
 Then I ob3ects.' said MT. Donovan, and no agreement could be reached re- garding general debate.
 MT Fitzgerald then moved to dis pense with the first reading Of the bill and again MT. Donovan interposed an objection, causing the clerk to read the long measure.
 During the reading MT. Donovan as- serted that the clerk was skipping a paragraph now and then, and the IndignaRt member from Connecticut followed the reading Of the bill sen tence by sentence to see that there was no skipping.
 MT. Donovan lectured MT. Fitzgerald by asserting that. Instead of encour- aging long speeches, the House leaders should bend their efforts toward keep. tnEa quorum in the House and rushing business
 MT. Donovan sought to make a point of no quorum. but was few seconds too late as the motion had been car rted to go into committee of the whole for the reading of the bill.
 About o'clock in the afternoon, however, when the House was getting ready for one of it's sleepy sessions with about a dozen members present and those who were not interested in the speeches of members, who were talking about all kinds of things for home consumption were disappearing in the cloak rooms Representative Donovan arose and made a point of no quorum.
 One hundred is a quorum in the com rnittee of the whole and the point of no quorum caused the changing OF the gongs in the House office building and a scurrying of pages to telephones and the members began to come in
 There were over 200 on hand inside of a half hour and the hall of Rep looked like one of the chambers of the greatest nation on earth for a little while Soon 1t was announced that Representative Siss- on had secured time under the general debate to tell what he had done for his country since he had been in Con- gross.
 A dozen or so members groaned and waited on Representative Donovan with the plea that they would like to go to the ball game ,and they hoped he would not raise a point of no quor- lm just to make them hear Sisson say lot of things that he wanted to get printed in speech form so that he sould defeat the fellow who is oppos- ing him for his seat
 The representative from Connecticut smiled and said:
 -fWell, I must listen to him. will aot promise not to raise a point of no 1 something important may | come up.''