Show MEASURES E 0 AT CLOSING SESSION PROLONGED filibuster PREVENTS ACTION ON IMPORTANT BILLS S BEFORE CONGRESS fall to get A action c tion on regular appropriation pria tion bills army gayy and merchant marine budgets and railroad fund IV Alling toll A hitter billet controversy between president ullon und find tile he ten bel nto over tile tho league of nations nation 4 find binl I 1 it filibuster by it a few Ite 1 11 sella MIKI tors seeking in force fill an inanod lilt extra session marked tile lie passing nt fit noon of on march ell 1 I 1 of file sixty fourtin or great war congress congiv sR called lit in april 1917 to lo throw americas weight into tile lie conflict oversell m eisens 4 tho congress held three I 1 I 1 and III historic partisanship iny dormant lorini tnt luring tho war but it broko broke forth in the list cislon to 0 o culminate in it fintel filibuster which successfully cess coss fully blocked passage of half of the lie fourteen figular appropriation 1 lulls 1118 including the railroad administration revolving fund and till huge annly navy and Ill erchant marine budgets although Althou sli in their efforts to record tile ho senate in III favor of amendment of tile lip constitution of the ae loncio ague of n nations UK am now drawn tile I 1 senators loft left lit in the hie I 1 word record e it approved liy by thirty neno 0 of f ahcin opposing acceptance of tile charter lit in its present form louder lodge till and other said tills was na notice to the lie president find the peace conference that lint the lio necessary two to majority in it tile ilio now senate for ratification of tile tho present plan could not be ol oil tallied democratic lenders privately expressed bellef belief that amendments would too ho ninale soon after tit ahti president ranched rod died carls im Is president wilson spent f nn an tit nt tile tho capitol before adjourn adjournment inen t later 0 lie o formally announced lint talat despite the tha death lit in tit the filibuster of the rall mil road nikl and other lie would adhere to ills I 1 efu sill to coil call tile now congress before its ills return front from france and criticized criticised a group of men for or their alic lr obstruction As a result of 0 the fill filibuster bus which 1100 tile senate in continuous session for twenty six the president till biad little to to do tit at tile alio cap call itol HOT except sign tile wheat guarantee bill and exchange leave members and rland i because oatho presidents decision on oil tile extra session inellie ars who crowded outgoing out going trains felt assured that congress would not again assemble much before juno june 1 |