Evening star., 1941-03-25
Counter r-FiIibuster
Keeps MaryIand's
Senate Up All Night
Four Bottle Az Hours
To End Delaying Moves
Against Oyster Bill
b. the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, March 25,-An un-
precedented counter filibuster"
against an oyster filibuster COL
laped at dawn today in Maryland's S
Senate.
Four Senators battled four and a
half hours to end an old tilibuster
by Senator Philip H. Dorsey, Demo-
crat. of St. Marys, and his renewed
struggle to postpone measure to
open the Potomac River to oyster
hand scraperS.
But as dawn lighted the State
Capitol the deadlock was broken
with the counter hlibuster' Sena-
tors losing one vote to Mr.. Dorsey
and his l3 supporters.
Mr.. Dorsey, in his third delay"
move of the eight-hour session,
moved to make the bill a special
order of business for pm. We'd
nesday.
Counter ilibuster.
The counter -f1libuster came during
the roll call vote on that motion.
After approving Mr.. Dorsey's mo-
ton by 1911 vote, the Senate ad-
journed at 5:57 am. until this aft
ernoon.
The -hlibuSter. unheard of
by legislative authorities, started at
130 am.
Mr.. Dorsey, who had delayed Sem
ate business with an hour-long fill
buster lasting until 11:30 last night,
had no sooner made his motion than
Senator George Della. Democrat, of
Baltimore rose to explain" his vote
against the move BY reading from
conservation reports. he made his
''explanation" last two hours.
Mr.. Della lost the floor on a mo-
ton that he was out of order through
reading the same page for the last
hour" but Senator ElWood Die. Re-
publican, of Somerset, sponsor of the
oyster bill, took his place. He was
caught repeating himself after only
half an hour.
Lindsay Raps Assembly.
Then Senator James Lindsay,
Democrat, Of Baltimore County took
over threatening to lam this Legis
lature in way that has never been
experienced in Maryland" and hit
ting at the Senate in an eXcoriating
attack on politics in the General
Assembly"
Mr.. Lindsay asserted he was 'Serv-
ing notice will filibuster against the
Court of Appeals reorganization bill,
If necessary into ADril "
Mr.. Lindsay said Mr. Die had
"had a majority for months.
when the Senator from Somer-
set loses his oyster fight, it will be a
monument to the everlasting defeat
of the 1941 Senate Of Maryland" "
Mr.. Lindsay asserted. Il am going
to go down with him, Republican
though he is"
Mr.. Lindsay surrendered volun-
tariiy after an hour, and Senator
Cecil c. Squier, Democrat, of Cecil,
took over for nearly another hour.
The vote was completed afterward.
Senate Faces 6 Special Orders.
The fllibuSters dragged into a day
when the Senate faced no less than
six special orders, as well as other
important bills laid over.
The special orders include bills
30 reduce the length of service max
Ing judges eligible for pensions;
to permit horse racing at county
fairs. and to permit night clubs in
Baltimore to remain open until
B am.
In q hectic session often inter-
rupted by debate, the Senate killed
a bill to make Monday holidays"
out of Decoration Day in May, and
combined Washington-Lincoln
day in February, and first voted
down, reconsidered, and then passed
a measure permitting divorce on
grounds of incurable insanity.
Among the otner major bills of
48 passed by the upper chamber was
one creating a Law Revision Com
mittee to recommend procedure for
the Court of Appeals. 1t takes away
power previously granted to the
court itself.
Those That Died
Into the dead file by adoption
of unfavorable committee reports
went bills that would have created
g liquor appeals board, repealed the