The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-19

Washington, Sept. 19-The day and night fight on the river and harbor hill in the Senate showed signs of a break today with victory for the hl- ibustering Republicans. when It oe- came known that President Wilson Ia vored abandoning the bill and sub stftutfrg a new resolution to appro- priate SIP O0O, ,OOO to $15, ,000, 900 to con- tInue only those projects under way.
 The original bill proposed $5S, 900 000- Oncials said the President believed the bill should be abandoned in it's present form because government rev enues, already falling because of the Turopean war, must be supp lemented by a war tax The economy, meas ure will extend all along tke line. Even increases in salaries of officials may be abandoned
 Through a dreary, continuous. ses- sion, the Senate today dragged it's vveaky way in an effort to break the stubborn fi1fbuster. It had been an aIl-uigat session. Democratic leaders of the Senate. ably supported in point of numbers had brought to bear every parliamentary check they could find 3n an efrort to break the continuous flow Of river and harbor information hnaparted by Senator Burton Match dnR parIianientary strategy by strate- N&y, Senator Burton, however, flelds the floor and spoke sometimes to an almost empty chamber and whenever he could tc full attendance brought by a care- fully engineered demand for a quor- 41m-
 Several times a roll call failed to bring enough Senators to do business and a squad of deputy sergeants-at- arms bearing wr1ts of arrest, started out in taxicabs to bring in the absent members Senator Lewis, the, Demo- Hs was hurried from his bed at the Army and Navy Club by deputy af- ter the latter had threatened club at fendants with arrest because of their alleged refusal to permit the. Sena- tor 1c be dIstuFsbed Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, reported to the Sem ate some time after a quorum had been secured, that he had been arrest e1 and had promised the serg geant-at- arms to hurry to the Senate in order to avoid being brought in by the arm
 Senator Burton took the floor short 1y before 6 o'clock last night after the Democrats had determined on a coTEt1nuous session Despite all ef- 6orts to dislodge him, he continued to talk and shortly after midnight the 9Aclk of quorum caused the ordering of NEifg of arrest He had an hour and hah Of rest while the majority of the Senafe was herded into the hzz1aznher and then resumed his voice a tr3de husky but still strong. During his resting spelie the Senator discard H1A HE 41OCA DOsAl LOI LII st41p<1C6 4OUS6 Jacket and had donned bedroom slip peTk Thus att1red he plodded up and Gown, point in hand before a se- aries of charts which he had placed on the wan of the Senate chamber.
 Half a dozen Senators formed the audience then and one of them, Sena- tor YaFdaznan, was stretched on a couch In the rear of the chamber The cIoakroonas and nearby committee rooms were filled with slumbering Senators awaiting the summons of the quorum bell. Tn the interval, while they waited for the sergeant -at- arms to gather in a quorum, the chamber was almost deserted. Half a. dozen Senators gathered about Senator Rob .anson, of Arkansas, who told funny storfes Senator Ashhurst, who then