STORMY SESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 7

STORMY SESSION.

AMERICAN CONGRESS. Huey Long Carries Five-Hour Stonewall. TUMULTUOUS CONFERENCES. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright; WASHINGTON, August 27. As Congress was on the verge of adjourning last evening Mr. Huey P. Long (Louisiana), rose in the Senate and commenced a stonewall in an effort to prevent the adjournment. Previously all obstacles had been overcome, including the inter-House conflict over two amendments to increase the Government's grants to cotton and wheat growers. The legislators had killed amendments after President Roosevelt had intimated that the agricultural administration would announce a more liberal loan policy. Mr. Long, angry over the rejection of the amendments, stated that he would stonewall until midnight, after which the Senate would have to adjourn until to-day. Shouting and waving his arms in characteristic fashion, Mr. Long castigated the Government and declared he would never surrender the floor. Congress adjourned at midnight after Mr. Long's stonewalling tactics had prevented the passing of the 100,000,000 dollars Third Deficiency Bill. This meant that Congress did not provide the money for many major "New Deal" projects. Tumultuous conferences during the day and compromises which had manoeuvred the Government into rewriting its cotton loan plans as the price for mollifying Southern members of the Senate and winning 70,000,000 dollars in cash for its social security programme, were nullified by Mr. Long's 5} hours' speech. Also contained in the Deficiency Bill was the money for the neutrality and arms embargo resolution. Opinions differ as to whether Mr. Roosevelt can provider the money from some other source, s.uch as work relief funds or by executive orders. The President signed the Utilities Bill.