The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-03
Administrators Machine
Clears Way for Big De-
ficiency Bill.
FINAL GRIND ON TODAY
100000 for Railroads
the Next Issue Up for
. Action.
NEW FIL1BUSTER Is SEEN
Sherman Will Talk on League
Of Nations in Last Few
Hours of-Gongress.
NEW FILIBUsTER Is SEEN
ScectaI Dsspatch 20 Tnr sur,

scectnI Dsspatch 70 TEE sur
WASHINGTON. March 2.-The Senate
passed the bin authorizing the Govern.
mcnt TO issue notes agsresating ST..
o0o,o0o.ooo to-day. but Senators had to
stay up all night to do II. The final
vote ON tho measure came shortly after
9 o'clock this morning:
Tho Republican filibuster feared by
all Democrats and a good many Re-
publicans did not assume serious pro-
portions. Some Senators talked what
seemed to be overlong. but their talks
were really about the bill Every at
tempt to amend the bill as drawn In
the Ways and Means Committee and
passed by the House failed.
The votes were merely the informal
kind. not roll call votes, because 1t was
30 evident That the Administration ma
chine was In working order and that
roll call votes would only delay final
passage Of the measure.
Final Grind Begins To-day.
When the weary. bedraggled. red
eyed Senators went home In the cold
gray dawn they managed to get the
first real rest they have had for quite
a while. The Senate did meet to-day
but only to hear eulogies, and no public
business whatever was transacted. Ex-
cept for, few, most Of the Senators
were not required to appear for their
regular tasks until 10 o'clock to-mor-
row morning, when the long and final
grind OF the session begins.
The Ssnate will mot adjourn tomorrow
at all. in ali probability. but will stay In
session Continuously untf noon Tuesday.
when by law the Si1ty-ffth Congress
dies. -
The programme now Is TO take up the
general deficiency bill when tho Senate
meets tomorrow morning. This appro-
priates about $500. 900. 900. and is almost
as important to get through as was tho
note authorization finally approved early
this morning
s7bo.OoO.OOO for Railroads.
The general deficiency bill includes AZ
an item the additional $3.50. 900. 900 re-
Nolving fund for the Railroad Admins
tration. This appropriation. is regarded
by the Republican leaders as in thersame
general class as the note bill Holding
1t up would cause such real trouble and
cause II SO quickly that the President,
despite his determination not to call
Congress together until long time from
now, would be forced to reconsider and
get Congress together quickly to keep the
railroads from going completely to d'sas-
ter.
However. the Republican leaders agree
that blocking this measure, while II
might be counted on to force an extra
session, would be shortsighted politics
in that the certain wreck Of the railroad
system. which would follow, might bs
blamed to the Republican party. As was
the case with the note bill, some Repub-
lican Senators are in favor OF stopping
all legislation and putting the onus upon
the President OF failing 10 call an extra
session OF Congress regardless OF the
chaos which might be expected from
failure of the railroad bill and the note
authorization.
Halt Army and Navy Bill.
Democrats under the White Hous.
lash may make an attempt 10 push the
army and navy appropriation bills
through tho Senate. II they do soma
OF the nnest examples OF long distance
oratory ever heard In the Senate will
be the response OF the Republicans
So far as tho army appropriation bilI
is concerned 1t is so full OF features
objecnpnahls To- 'hs Republicans that
1t has no ohxhc5 at all. The nayS.Sul
rRNA NIA .A.N A.
President to build or not to build. at his
own will. tremendous new feet OF
capital fighting ships and hundreds Of
other fighting craft. Carrying this pro-
vision in the bill was recently exposed
as nothing more or less than a club
to WELD over the head of Great Britain
to try to force her. through realizing
that tho United States was ready to
engage In an enormously expensive
battleBhip building race, into agreement
to limit national armaments. notably
British naval armament
If Senator Swanson (Va.), chairman
of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee,
tries TO get action on the naval ap-
preparation bill he may tie up the whols
Senate works so badly as 10 teopardize
the chances OF tho deficiency bill. which
carries the appropriation for a now
railroad revolving fund. However.
Senator Swanson was told plainly by
his Republican colleagues on the COM
mittee just what would happen II he
was insistent.
May start a FiIibuster,
Senator Sherman Gll) has served no-
tice on the Senate that hs will talk
about the Presidents League of Nations
to-roorrow. and this means the use Of
considerable time. Senator Sherman is
ore OF the violent objectors to the Re