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solelv on Inclusion Of provision
to build ! 9S7,6OO.0O0 dam at Cove
Creek In Tennessee, 100 miles above
Muscle Shoals. He charged the
bin took private property without
the states consent He sought m
vain to amend the report tO allow
the state to tar the property and
Is control its operation. All such
proposals were ruled out Of order
by vice President Dawes under the
Senate's rules.
Leaders Fight Jam
Administration leaders joined with.
the Boulder Dam advocates In help
Ing TO break the Muscle Shoals fili.
buster. because they feared the new
tax reduction bill might be killed
In the legislative deadlock. They
denied runfOrs that the adjourn.
nnent date would be postponed from
next Tuesday to Saturday. June 2,
declaring the fiIibuster would be.
stopped ii time to carry out the
legislative program.
A petition 70 invoke cloture on the
tax bill conference report was circu-
lated and signed by q score Of Sen.
ators during the forenoon. Admins
tration leaders drew up the petition
To secure a limitation of debate
should the filibuster be continued
against the tax bill. Some of the in
surgent group. who plan to attack
the action of the conference In aban.
doning the tax publicity feature,
signed the petition in the belief that
It applied to Muscle Shoals bill.
They later eliminated their names.
After Mcclellan quit, Senator
Tydings CD of Maryland, who held
the floor for three hours during the
night. and Senator King d. Of Utah
protested against the Senate's action.
The vote followed
Two score of Senator'S. vitally in.
terested in the Muscle Shoals ana
Boulder Dam bills. had spent the
night in the Senate chamber or its
cIoakrooms. They were haggard
ane drawn, some doing in their
chairs, others slept.
Another group slipped home to
sleep during the night and they ap-
peared fresh and bright. in sharp
contrast to their colleagues who had
carried on the q Iht for "a consecu-
tive hours.
some of the latter group were
hauled out of bed early today when
the Senate sent out its sergeant-at.
arms to arrest all missing Sen
ators.
For four hours before dawn the
Senate was a silent tomb as the
Senate's attaches secured the city
for Senators to fill the quorum"
necessary. to transact business.
Many OF those in attendance dur
ing the night stretched out on
lounges, snatching maps. There
were but a handful of friends and
foes of the bills on the floor, the
fight against the filibuster being leo
nv Senators Curtis CR) of Kansas,
Norris R3 of Nebraska, Johnson
R1 of California. and La Toilette
(R.) of Wisconsin.
Ashurst Holds Up Vote
The fight against the Boulder
Dam bill was directed by Senator
Ashurst CD of Arizona on the
ground 1t would confiscate Ari-
zona's rights to water from the
Colorado River. The Utah Senator'S
held a similar view In behalf OF
their state.
The bill would provide for the
building of a huge dam in the
Boulder Canyon on the Colorado
at a point between California and
Arizona It's proponents declared
it would provide flood relief protec-
ton for the whole Imperial Valley
of California, reclaim tens OF
thousands Of acres Of arid lands in
a half dozen States and provide
electric power for California and
Arizona.
It was the purpose of Admins
trak1on leaders to keep the Senate
continuously in session until the
filibuster Is broken or until It
appears that neither the Muscle
Shoals nor Boulder Dam bill can ne
finally enacted. "A decision may not
be reached before Sunday, and the
Senate. consequently, faced a con
tinuous session today, all through