CONGRESS FILIBUSTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18340, 5 March 1923, Page 7

CONGRESS FILIBUSTER.

EVE OF ADJOURNMENT. A SOUTHERN BLOCKADE. BOTH SENATE AND HOUSE. Br Telegraph— 'Association-— (Received 7.15 p.m.) * A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. March 3. With many important Bills awaiting action the closing hours of Congress, j which adjourns to-morrow at noon, were marked by a filibuster in the House of Representatives, engineered by Southern Democrats, who resented the Speaker's refusal to permit consideration of a Bill by tho Government for the purchase and sale of nitrates to formers at cost price. Long speech-making began, with the prospect of continuing all night unless the Opposition yielded. Upon learning the situation in the ! House. Mr.' Heflin began a. companion j filibuster in the Senate, in which other | Southern Senators joined earnestly. MeanI while the Republican leaders exerted vain ; efforts to placate and cajole the filibuster ! leaders in the House, Messrs. Campbell | and Mondell, both of whom will retire '. from Congress to-morrow, having failed !to obtain re-election by their constij tuencies. Indignant members declared I that it was a shame that two men so rejected should frustrate the apparent will of the House. Reason intervened long enough in the Senate and House to permit the passage of'two Bills in which both Democrats and Republicans were concerned. Afterwards the filibuster was resumed. Several members of the House suggested a recess in view of the manifest unlikelihood of any j business being transacted owing to the i obstruction. Meanwhile the Senate went ! into executive session to consider the j President's nominations.