Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-02-23

dam FORCE ALL
NIGHT SESSION
Efforts or Supporters
To Secure Vote On
Measure Today Are
Unavailing

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 2S.-tH
After an MI night session. during
many hours of which less than half
the membership was present, qucr-
um was secured in the senate nc
9:O7 o'clock this morning. and tho
filibuster against the Boulder Cam.
yon Dam bill was resumed
When q quorum had assembled this
morning Senator Kendrick. Wyoming
began an address on the Importance
Of the Boulder Canyon dam legisla-
ton 40 the states In the upper Cole
rado basin. The senate quickly emp-
tied, but the galleries began TO fill
rapidly. During the early hours
there had been but one spectator In
the public gallery, Mrs. Johnson,
wife or the California senator. who
stayed throughout the night
An effort to displace the Boulder
Canyon bill before the senate was
made shortly after noon by the re-
publican floor leader, Senator Cur
lis Of Kansas
TO senate worndown by an all
night session, the Kansas senator
proposed "a unanimous consent agree
ment that the Boulder Canyon bill,
faced by a continuing filibustcr, BE-
laid aside, and the administrators
prohibition REORGANIZATION bill be
taken up i'm its stead.
Senator Edwards, Democrat. New
Jersey. objected and Curtis put his
proposal in the form of motion. A
debate followed with Senator Bruce,
democrat. Maryland. n wet leader.
first taking the floor against the
bill
Bruce attacked prohibition en-
forcement declaring IL had contamin-
ated those engaged in IL and 0ppOs-
cd substitution OF the re-organira-
tion on bill for the Boulder Dam
measure.
The Curtis notion also was 0p-
posed BY Senator Norris. republican,
Nebraska, who said he favored both
bills. but could not see that prohibi-
tion was more important than the
business before the senate.
After fifty minutes 0f debate. Sem
ator Curtis withdrew his motion, thus
keeping the Boulder Canyon Dam
bill before the senate.
Those who had remained In the
senate chamber IN the long night
virii, durirr which the sargennt-at-
arms sought vainly 10 bring nbBan-
tees 10 their desks, suffered good
naturedly the joking remarks Of the
blight-eyen crlleaNuHs wtn stroli-A
leisurely I'm one nv one with a good
night OF sleep behind them.
Although a blanket warrant had
been issued by the senate for the AIR.
rest OF Absentees, IN was not served
on any member.
When announcement was made
that quorum was present. Senator
Phipps, republican, Colorado. took
which Senators Ashurst, democrat.
and Cameron, republican. Arizona,
had carried on throughout the night.
Other opponents Of the bill were
prepared tO relieve the Colorado
senator. Senator Johnson, repub-
lican. California. author OF the bill,
is trying 10 force "a vote before nd-
journment tonight 20 prevent dis
placement OF the measure.
senator Phipps declared that he
would be willing t0 vote for thm bin.
although IL might react against
companies in which he was person
ally interested were he not opposed
20 the government going into tho
business Of producing and manufac-
turing.
Under questioning by Senator
johnson, the Colorado senator said
ne was stoekholder in the Nevada
Colorado Electric Company and IA
holding company interested in pro-
ducing electrical energy in south
western territory Since coming to
the senate he had taken n0 part in
the management of the business NV
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