Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-22
Filibuster Against the Ship
Bill Will Continue to
the End.
ANTI-SHIP BILL DATA
Leaders of Minority An
nounce Determination
to Oppose Measure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.--Repub-
leans Of the senate at a formal con-
ference held late today determined to
nght the government ship purchase
bin with ali the resources they could
command and to continue the opposi-
! ton indehnitely-unt March or In
an extra session, should one be called.
Immediately following the confer
cuce called by Minority Leader Gal
fingered, tho Republicans began con-
ccrtcd action i'm the senate,
At the Republican caucus were
majority Of the minority senators, In
Guiding several of the Progressive
Republicans, among them Senators
Borah. Gronnn and Brlstow, on the
motion to adjourn, however, the hrst
Republican move against the ship bill,
Senators La Toilette. Clapp and Poin-
dexter voted with the Democrats,
1T was the concensus of opinion
among the Republican senator's" said
Senator Gallingcr, that we should
| keep up the fight against this ship
purchase bill We have thoroughly
canvassed the situation and find We
| have a vast amount of material and
plenty Of talent for continuing debate
! indefinitely. How long It will require
| 70 get our arguments against the
measure before the nation 1t Is impos-
sible TO predict
Warm Repartee.
Senator Williams asserted that SEN
atcr Townsend and Republicans gem
| Ually were attempting to appeal to
| 'burcN sectional feeling upon this
! side" the thought that such a pro-
gram could be successful he said, was
! founded in the arrogant assumption
of the average Republican that the
average Democrat is fool
Senator Gallinger objected TO the
| charge Of arrogance as a violation OF
senatorial propricty. Senator Williams
said he certainly was permitted to
style the Republican party as "ar-
rOgaut as the Republicans invariably
STYLED the Democrats as fools, He
said the statement from the Rcpub-
lican side that there was no tilibuster
in progress was laughable in view Of
what was happening.
| Democrat senators tonight held
their fourth caucus to perfect the snip
Dill, meeting soon after the senate had
recessed until IL o'clock tomorrow.
Senator Kern, the majority leader;
Senator Fletcher, in charge'of the bill,
and other administrator leaders We're
aroused by the action Of the Repub-
| mean conference. lFFNr luSASlcu llal
| the ship bill would be kept before the
senate regardless of consequences
None would say, however, that vital
amendments might not he agreed
upon in the party caucus.
Read At Length.
Most of the day was occupied by
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts in a
prolonged speech against the bill, The
| Massachusetts, senator read a score Of
| clippings from newspapers which he
said had supported the administra-
| tion, but which now opposed the pres
Idents shipping plan He said If he
road all the adverse comments avail
afhle he could not conclude his re-
marks before March 4.
The senator read various reports, in
Guiding lengthy one on the govern
ment-owned railways in Prussia, to
support his contention that govern
ment projects of every sort and in
every country were incapable of Oper-
alton as economically as the same
projects under private ownership.
Senator Weeks said he was con-
vinced advocates of the bill would in
the end conclude TO eliminate the pos
sibillty Of government operation Of
the shipping provided for in the bill
and make provision only for the pur-
chase and construction of the ships
by the government and their lease to
private operators