ANTI-POLL TAX BILL
DEBATE IN UNITED STATES SENATE ATTEMPT TO END STALEMATE Rec. 9 p.m. WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. Attempts by the Republicans to break the stonewall going on in the Senate against the Anti-Poll Tax Bill failed to-day. The Republican leaders sought to stop the three-day-old stonewall by invoking a closure or limitation of the debate, but the Senate president. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, ruled them out of order Senator Vandenberg slated that the cln«'irr> rule could only be invoked to limit the debate on the measure whe s this debate was on the motion to brinv up the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. The stalemate brought a threat from Senator Taft (Republican, Ohio) that the Republicans might do something about the rules if they retain control of Congress and elect a President in November.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26841, 4 August 1948, Page 5
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