The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-10
Senators Settle Down to An other All-Night Debate. Won't Predict When
 End Will Come
KENYON VOTES WITH
 THE DEMOCRATS TO
 STOP ADJOURNMENT
Both Factions Appear Determined to Keep Up Struggle Indefinitely. Session May Last
 Week

Washington. February 9.--Formei
 notice in writing that he would seek
 n cloturc amendment to the Senate
 rules to end debate on the ndministra- 10. and cause q final vote to he talk
 three hours later. wns given by $
 stor Reed late tonight. when the
 ntc had been In continuous session for moro than 36 hours.
 Washington. February 0.-The Sen-
 ate settled down early tonight for an-
 other all night debate on the admin fstrntion ship purchase biII, after repub-
 Iicans and insurgent democrats failed early in the evening to break the con-
 tinuous session. When the end would
 come no one would predict.
 Administration leaders declared the ses- sion might last for a week without in
 terruption. Opposition leaders, however.
 said an effort would be made tomorrow to break the deadlock
 Republicans were surprised at the strength commanded by the administra- tion forces when Senator Clarke of Ark ansas moved that the Senate adjourn un- til nooon tomorrow. They had hoped that Senator Norris, progressive republican. would not stand with the democratic 1 majority on the motion. Senator Norris. however, voted against adjournment as did Senator LaFollette. Senator Ken I yon voted with the administration forces for the first time since the beginning
 of the fight The vote vas AS to ,6.
 ifpd the opposfiioi allaoce breed ad-
 journment republicans had planned to try | to displace the bill tomorrow by motion
 to take up for consideration the postof- l flee appropriation measure, and such an attempt may yet be made. Should it suc- ceed administration leaders probably | would be unable to get the pending meas
 use before the Senate again between now and March 1.
 Leaders Confident
 In the light of the vote tonight demo- cratic leaders were confident their lines would hold. although some republicans in- timated that Senator Norris might soon desert the majority unless the filibuster could be broken and the continuous ses- sion ended.
 After the strenuous all night sesion Monday the day in the Senate was an exciting one, enlivened by parlimen- tary entangelments ana denunciations of proceedings by insurgent democrats. Senators OGorman and Hitchcock as- sailed the attempt to coerce support of the shipping bill and both referred to the Presidents attitude on the measure. President Wilson took occasion dur ing the day to reassure callers that there was no intention of withdrawing the bill even should it be necessary to call an extra seSion.
 If opponents of the bill can prevent a decisive vote for many more days an alternative plan of getting the bi.I through has been suggested The plan would be for House leaders to call up for passage bill introduced by Sem ator Weeks early in the session. which
 passed the Senate. providing for turn ing over some ships of the navy for mail and commercial service between New York and South American ports With this bill before the House it would be part of the plan to attach the ship purchase bill an amendment and to pass the amended bill under special | iofc' dtiOil lttueIS LII l1e sen ate would move to concur in House amendments to the Weeks bill and upon this. it Is believed, record vote might be forced
 It is said this plan has been discussed at the White House, although no one
 would admit it tonight
 Senator Root asserted that a majority of the Senate never favored the original
 bill and would not favor the present bill
 which ho eai bo Hao ro1 ,It
 by it's proponents to gain republican
 votes. If the bill finally was passed, he
 said, it would not be because the minds and Judgment of majority of the Sen ate were convinced. but for the marrow fieeting satisfaction of winning at any cost That should not be accomplished, he asserted, except over the protest of the minority side of the chamber.
 Senator New1ands asked if the rninor- ity had proposed any measure repre- senting their judgment on the proposed legislation. Mir. Root repie-. that series of proposed amendments offered by the minority had been tabled without possi- bility of discussion or even of explana- tion. Senator Newlands inquired if the substitute measure proposed by Senator Cummins and Lodge, which differed rad ically, in any way represented the mnor- ity views. Senator Root declined to am swer or further to yield the floor.
 Following plan agreed upon by the re- publicans and insurgent democrats. Sen ator Clarke of Arkansas shortly after 6 D. m. sought to break the continuous ses- sion by moving an adjournment. Sena- tor Fletcher made point of no quorum and forced a roll call.
 By a vote of 4S to 46 the Senate refused to adjourn. Senator Kenyon surprised his republican, colleagues by voting against the adjournment motion with Senators md V.oE ol1 1aft .oI1 call Senator McCumber began speech against the bill, prepared to talk most Of the night if necessary.
 Senator Lewis of Illinois made an elo- quent plea for harmony within the dem ocratic ranks toward the clos of the day. Turning toward the democrats and ad- dressing them as my southern brethren" he asked them to forget the differences