SLEEPY SENATORS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 11

SLEEPY SENATORS

ALL-NIGHT SITTING "STONEWALLING" A BILL Australian Press Association. . . (■Received 30th May; 2 p.m.) ■ WASHINGTdK, 29th May. Weary and bedraggled Senators, who, physically exhausted after an allnight session maintaining a so-called "filibuster on tho Boulder Dam project, received somo hope of relief as noon approached, when the leaders woiked out anagreement for a possible adjournment before nightfall. In the' meantime, sleepy-eyed Senators held tho floor for hours at a time, during which periods many of them dozed while supposedly delivering addresses. A high point of the night session was reached when Senator Blease heralded the dawn by mimicking birds' cries and fluttering his hands. '. \ Others took 'short naps in the antechamber, and some tried to keep themselves awake drinking iced coffee. The object of the "filibuster" is to frustrate the passage of tho Bill by absorbing tho remaining time of tho sessions. ■ ■ Congress adjourned for tho summer late this, afternoon, after the Senate had. passed v resolution to that effect ending tli'e twenty-four hour "filibuster" on the Boulder Dam Bili. Tho House of Representatives passed a similar resolution shortly after the Senate... . ... ,