SENATORS’ FILIBUSTER
$ TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS PREVENTED. (Rec. February 21, 8.55 p.m.) Washington, February 20. That interesting phenomenon in American legislative practice known as a filibuster, whereby a Senator can exert a traditional prerogative to talk endlessly until death cuts short his flow of words is occurring just now. Several members of the so-called agrl- - bloc opposed President Harding’s Ship Subsidy Bill, and have taken the floor in a determination to prevent tho measure coming to a. vote during the present sessio.i of Congress, which ends on March 4. Senator Sheppard has just ended a speech ofl eleven hours, opposing the measure. Senator McKellar will take the floor and promises to read a> speech fourteen hours long. Each Senator when weary grants the floo ronly to a colleague against the subsidy. The Sanete is now sitting in continuois session, but Lie Chamber is virtually deserted. No business can be transacted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 134, 22 February 1923, Page 7
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