The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-16

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sion unless tney relected the CONFER
ence report on tne DIN.
No one wanted an extra session.
especially about such q triffng item
IN single bill; but the general de-
ficiency opriatfon bill had to bel
passed. Those were the days when
Uncle Joe" Cannon ruled thel
House. An unofficial committee from
the Senate hastened to- Cannon's Off
ice, while Tillman began readingI
poetry, and begged him to allow thel
House conferees to authorize theI
payment Of South Cardinals claim.
Cannon at first declared that thel
South Carolina senator could read
poetry until June If he chose, but he
was manly prevailed upon by his 'col-
leasues % agree 70 conference re-
p ia autnorlzlng tne soutn Sarol1na
llem, SO tnat no extra session womb
" necessary. mus nia q lone senai'
.ur WIN Sov,VuV LOT ms STATE nj
lpusserlng singie-nanueu.
q FAMOUS hiibuster OF many years
ago was That conducted IN 1898 by
Wllliam .. Aiien, q Popullst senator
Iion NEBRASKA, against the repeal OF
lne SILVER purchase clause IN the
sherman law. ine silver purchase
cause PROVIDED tnat certain num-
pei OF ounces OF silver must ne
pousnt oy tne treasury every year. II
was extremely dear 70 the silver
i producing western states, ana was
4 seeereiy crlticizeo IN me East. SEN
ator Alien was supported by num-
ner =, aoIner western senator's ne
took the ,hoor at O'Clock one atter-
nIvn sano neio y Until O'CLOCK tno
4 lolioWing morning., with the aid OF q
/ rev ron ca!is: inat was october II,
ana ne ana ms colleagues succeeded
!. IN SAVING ON vote until November
I, when the silver purchase clause
was defeeted.
II Senator Allen made his fourteen
hour speech with great deal Of case.
according to those who witnessed the
feat, and had himself served at short
intervals with TIA and toast.
Probably the longest continuous
filibuster maintained by a number
1 of senator's was that over the so
called force bill" in December and
1.-THE whole Of those two months, and
4 1t is said that the carpet between the
/ Senate chamber and the cloak room,