Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-03-14
VICTORY loan Y
BILL PASSES
Senate Approves Seven Billion
Dollar Measure After Brief
+ FiIibuster.
WILSON CARRIES HIS POINT.
Employees Are Sent to Rouse Many
Statesmen From Their Beds and
Bring Them to the Capitol.
Early Session Move Lost.

Wasnington.-The senate passed
the bill authorizing the government to
issue notes aggregating S7,0O0,OOO, 600,
but senators had to stay up all night
to do it. The final vote on the meas
ure came shortly after 6 o'clock a. m.
The Republican filibuster feared by
all Democrats and 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 it was
so evident that the administration ma
chine was in working order and that
roll call votes would only delay final
passage of the measure.
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 met Sunday, but
only to hear eulogies, and no public
business whatever was transacted.
Passage by the senate Of the "Vic-
tory Loan" bill, authorizing sale by
the treasury of $7,000000,000 of new
short term notes and $1,000,000,0OO
for advances by the War Finance Cor.
poration in extending American for
eign commerce, came after a bitter
controversy, a threatened Republican
flibuster, which completely collapsed
and a tedious all-night session.
A weary group of senators, who
had remained through night of
speeches and delays in securing a quo
rum, witnessed final action on the bill.
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin,
Republican, made the principal speech
on the bill, holding the senate floor
from l o'clock until after 4.
He had expected to speak only an
hour, and disclaimed intending OBJ
struction.
When the Wisconsin senator con-
cluded Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania, Republican, sought to force an
adjournment without action on the
bill. A quorum was lacking, but the
leaders had the SER
geant-at-arms rounds, up absentees
and after a quorum was secured at 6
o'clock the bill was promptly put
through.
Several senators were brought from
their homes after 40 o'clock. Few
Of those remaining through the night
session stayed in the chamber, sleep
ing, dressed, on lounges in lobbies OF
committee rooms or outstretched on
couches in the senate chamber.
Many spectators remained in the
galleries until late hour, and small
group, including several women.
stayed until adjournment.
While Senator La Toilette was
speaking, Senator Sherman of Hi.
nois, Republican, who was among the
most active of the Republicans urging
a flibuster, canvassed the situation
He said he found only four other, Re-
publicans willing to cooperate in a
filibuster, so the attempt was aban'
doned.
Passage of the Loan bill without a
record vote and in the identical form
In which it came from the house def
initely marked the course of future
legislation.
1t gave assurance that President
Wilson would not find it necessary tc
change his plan of deferring a call OF
the new Congress until after his re-
turn from France, probably in June.
Most Republicans favored an ear,
Iier extra session, but after Republi
can senator's at a. conference failed to
reach any decision as to the advisable.
ity Of obstructing the Loan bill no
party filibuster was undertaken.