The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-31
4 DRAWN BATTLE
ON YA SHIP BILL
SENATE REcESsES Y AFTER
sesrIoURs STRENUOUS
DEBATE
WILL RENEW
FIGHT M0 0NDAY.
Measure WIN BE Kept Before
Senate Without Adiournment
s Until II Is Passed.
SENATE RECEssEs
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Q when the senate ended nearly 81 o
o hours Of continuous debate by o
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o day. 81 {.
a senator william Alden Smith, o
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10 tgrH1on, confessed ct III o'clock o
p Hat he was nearly exhausted d
80 AMI by & upaniniops consent the o
Q senate went into executive ses- d
Q sion 70 dispose OF some noHIna- 0
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.ysASHINGToN, Jan. 3O.-,-A drasyr.
Bottle ION the administration ship
purchase bill In the senate came to-
night after one sof the most strenu-
ous parliamentary struggles congress
has known in recent years From IL
q. M riday, all through last, night
and agsin today and tonight the con-
lest sproceeded with q spirtt OF deter
initiation little short 6f desperation
an both sideR e he gfeR 81 AK :. "a
hhai Fot Oh stl5e b q ii which Mould
break the senate deadicck and release
the blocklde OF legislation was Just
ahead. for the presiding officer had
ordered that the ayes and nays would
be- taken as soon as debate should
end. No further parliamentary de
Vice was available, and physical en.
ssss.tS;sSS ai0iie feInainedi to- hold back
the taking OF the vote. Sc
Although the Democrats agreed to
airecess at midnight at the end of 81
hours OF continuous debate, adminiS-
tration leaders insisted that such ac-
tion nleant no let-up In their deter
n,ination to- press the bill.
We agreed to the recess because of
Sunday, said Senator Simmons, "just
as we did the nI;hnster against si..e
rivers and harbofs appropriation bill
last fall. But Beginning, Monday at
10 o'clock 1t Is our purpose to press
the bill with all the force that Is In
our power
Late today Senator william Alden
Smith relieved his Republican coll
leagues who had been holding the
floor since early morning, he turned
his attention to a iftter arraignment
OF the administrations policy and
painted q gloomy! word picture OF the
business condition ok the country mn
der the Democratic tariff. An ..era
OF record-break aking business mortal-
ity had followed enactment OF that
tariR. he said, and he characterized
The shipping bill as the s.fifth admin.
istration follows,'' S
~ don't think we ever had presi-
dent who was so hopeful with so lit
I tie cause as the present Incumbent OF
the White house, he said. aFrom
tte day he signed the tariff bill ne las
not let q week go by without pro-
claiming that prosperity was here.
Senator Smith read many figures
which he declared showed the contii-
uons lie hRd recited and repeatstiiy
Challenged the Democrats to answer.
ilis statenea. Mai0riss i a1Ii bssT e
fused to De iray,i in tariff debate.
however accepting The Siniienee with
weary, anRthetlc silence.
Z Threhghotit the long day session
t.IFia 5IsuntI0H1 WAS tense. Many senR-
tors slept 10 their seats after the
long watches through last night 9th
ers - stretched on THE sofas cfrcling the
senate chamber: others formed tenn
relays, ofIensiye and defensive. fo
crowd the measure TO a vote. or to
hold It back. s
There was little aharp parilamen-
tnEy Fencing III the main, lt yas
steady sneechmnking, with here and
there q Hash or wit or bitterness 10
show the intense undercurrents Of the
debate. Senator Lodge again gave
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