Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-17 | Page 7 | Filibuster Prevents Action in the House

FILIBUSTER PREVENTS ACTION IN THE HOUSE WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 6. A Republican Repub-lican filibuster prevented consideration of tho Indian appropriation bill In the hoise today anil forced an adjournment Representative Gardner of Massachusetts engineered tho move In an effort to advance ad-vance tho legislative standing of a bill to pension widows and orphans of Spanish Span-ish war veterans. Mnjorltv Leader Underwood himself took charge of the fight against thc filibuster, declaring tho appropriation bills must be hustened If congress were to adjourn bv June lf, as now proposed. After much" debate, however, the parliamentary parlia-mentary wrangle became so Involved that Mi". Underwood moved adjournment. Then tho Republicans Insisted on a roll call vote, which carried tho motion, 102 to 00.