The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-09-25
BURTON SUCCEEDS
N 4 F|L|BUSTER
SIXTEEN DEMOCRATIC SENATORS
JOIN HANDS WITH AN IN
SiSTENT MINORITY.
RIVERS BILL IS CUT DOWN
1t Originally Carried $53,cs0,0on
Then Was Cut to $4,000, 900, and
Finally Reduced to s2o,ooo,ooo.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. - Revolving against
party leadership Monday, Is Demo.
cratic senators accomplished the over.
throw Of the rivers and harbors ap-
preparation bill and crowned with vic.
tory filibuster against the measure
directed by Senator Theodore E. Bur.
ton of Ohio.
The Senate, by a vote of 81 to %,
ended the struggle over the 34000,-
900 bill adopting motion by Demo.
Graf, Senator Bankhead of Alabama, to
recOmmit the bill to the Commerce
Committee with instructions that it
substitute measure appropriating a
lump sum of S20,060,000 to be ex-
pended on existing waterway projects
in the discretion Of the secretary OF
war and Board of Army Engineers.
The compromise of the bill came
suddenly. Senator Burton. whose
achievement will go down as a vale.
dictory effort in a congressional ca.
reer Of % years was warmly congratu.
lated by many of his colleagues as
the clerk announced the vote, which
sealed the fate of the big appropria,
ton bill. Senator Bankhead's motion
was interiected into the proceedings
at a moment when 1t became appar.
ent that a substitute offered by Sena.
tor Burton for the committee bill.
championed by Senator Simmons OF
North Carolina, was to receive the
support Of the Democrats who had
been fighting for the original bill.
Senator Burton himself had expressed
dissatisfaction over his own substitute
because 1t did not cut deep enough
and had given notice he would resub.
NIT later his motion to recommit the
bill.
1t was then that Senator Bankhead
surprised the Senate by presenting
the same resolution to recommit. |
Senator Simmons, in charge of the
Dill. made a game last stand, but IL
was at once apparent that the fight
was lost and the roll call was Guick.
ly ordered.
The Commerce Commission met
Tuesday to carry out the instructions
OF the Senate. Several Democrats ex.
the opinion that the outcome
would be satisfactory to President
Wilson. who had conferred with Sena.
tor Simmons early in the day and
agreed that the hill be cut. They also
believed the action might aid in over
coming opposition to the war revenue
BILL
Democrats who voted to recommis
the bill were:
Senators Ashurst. Bankhead Chill.
ton. Gore, Hollis. Johnson. Lane, Lee
OF Maryland. Lewis, MARITIME. Pottmsn,
Pomerene, Shafroth. Smith OF Arizona,
Thompson and White.
Minority senators who voted with
the supporters Of the Democratic bill
against the Bankhead proposal were
Jones. Penrose, Perkins. Poindexter
and Townsend.
Democrats who stood by the bill to
the end were:
Bryan. Chamberlain Fletcher, Kern
Lea of Tennessee. Overman, Ransdell
Robinson. Salisbury, Sheppard
shields. Simmons, Smith of Maryland |
Nth of South Carolina, Stone, Thorn.
Bn and Williams.
The bill rejected, when originally
reported from the Commerce Commit.
tee. carried $53,ooO.O0O, but as a re.
suit Of long fight begun by Senator
Burton early in the summer had been
reduced to about s34,OOO,Ooo BY com.
mittee action two weeks ago.