Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-28
SENATE BEATS
MOTION FOR
ADJOURNMENT
Upsets Leaders AS 1t
Had Previously De-
feated z Attempts to
Prolong Session

WASHINGTON. May 25.-tP)-The
senate today defeated a motion to
adjourn congress tomorrow Mt 5
p. m.
The vote was 40 to 40. and Vice
President Dawes broke the tie by
voting against the resolution.
Previously the senate had defeat
ed two attempts by senator John
son Of California to prolo-- the ses-
sion in order to give more time for
action on the Boulder Canyon dam
bill.
This leaves Congress without any
adjournment hour for this session.
Attempts TO fix June fifth then
next Saturday as the adjournment
date were defeated in order.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-tPj-
Congress entered the last lap OF its
turbulent, hard-working session to-
day facing conditions similar to those
OF the closing days OF the sixty-ninth
the senate battling over Boulder
Canyon Dam and the house with
nothing but little bills to clean up
before adjournment.
The house already has voted to
close down for the summer and fall
at . p IN. tomorrow, but its adjourn
ment resolution faced a severe test
today in the senate, which was TO
vote upon il after the regular first
two hours Of business.
Confronted by a filibuster, propo-
nents Of the Colorado river develop
ment legislation were ready to delay
the end of the session until next Sat
urday at least, but whether they had
the strength to win in this maneuver
was doubtful.
Plan 10 Fight for Bill
As last resort to obtain a vote,
Boulder dam advocates were pre-
pared, in event their adjournment
postmonement attempts fail, to keep
the senate in continuous session until
whatever time is fixed for quitting.
Should this develop and the house
time Of p. m. tomorrow is approved,
an hour and half short OF the sit
filibuster against the Norris-Morin
government operation Muscle Shoals
bill.
The house, which cleaned up its i'm
portant bill calendar Saturday with
disposition of the tax reduction
measure, also ran into the possibility
Of meeting today that would carry
il well into the night.
Meeting at III a. M. il planned to
remain in session for twelve hours If
need be to dispose Of several hundred
uncontested measures. unless an ad-
iournment is taken out of respect to
Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania, who died here Saturday.
House Sets Record
With vote-delaying tactics mar
shalled against not only the Boulder
canyon dam measure, but against the
S274 100000 administration naval
building bill should BY any chance
the former legislation be disposed Of,
little hope is entertained for final en-
actment of the last flock of house
little bills.
The Boulder Dam and naval bills
are the only ones of the list Of
major tasks mapped out for the sew
entieth congress yet TO be passed BY
both houses. The house has ap-
proved both of these. however. and
established what leaders believe 10
be one Of the biggest legislative
achievements in any six months OF
congressional activity.
Looking back over the record Of
this session, one finds four important
proposals still awaiting President
Coolidge's signature-the Muscle
Shoals. tax reduction, postal rates
revision. and second deficiency an-
preparation measures. All were sent
TO the White House in two days OF
last weeks business rush.
Of four other big jobs completed,
three have been placed on the statute
books. They are the flood control,
merchant marine development and
alien property settlement acts. Farm
relief. the other major bill to meet
senate and house approval, fell by
the wayside when the senate sus-
tanned the presidents veto Of the Nc
Nary -Haugen proposal.