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Senator Long Holds Floor for 15 Hours / SECOND LONGEST FILIBUSTER 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). WASHINGTON, June 13. Relentlessly -waiting )iim out-, -the Seriate watched Senator Huey P. Long, the Louisiana Democrat, speak himself into a- collapse after 15.) hours of continuous talk in his attempt to block a vote on the National Recovery Administration extension resolution introduced by President Roosevelt. When he was no longer able to uttc-r anything above a whisper and was so weary that lie had to be helped from the Chamber, the Democratic leaders whipped through the N.R-.A. stopgap measure by 41 votes to 13. It was the second longest filibuster in the history of Congress. Senator La Follette in 1908 spoke for 18 hours. One group of Senators declared : ; ‘We were disposed to sit- hero indefinitely to stop Senator Long from controlling this body.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 June 1935, Page 6
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144NEW DEAL EXTENSION Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 June 1935, Page 6
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