Show VERY BUSY DAY IN LOWER LOVER HOUSE Twenty-one Twenty Bills Bis Passed UnI Under Under Un Un- I der Suspension of the Rules BILL NOW IN CONFER CONFERENCE NCE Democratic Leader Williams Persist In lii Filibustering Tactics hut luit Speaker Speak Speak- I er en I Council Cannon Outwits Him Tutu Washington May 21 Operating 21 Operating un under m a a suspension of oC the tile rules the house tola today disposed of or twenty-one twenty bills bis which have havo been hanging fire Cre for some seine days cas ca's and which I If tho ho tho Democrats Democrats' Democrats Democrats' Dem Dora filibuster ler on statehood was not In it Ir force would have been disposed of b by unanimous consent consent Before Defore Settling down to business the amended railroad rate bill bi was re received received received re- re from the senate It I went ent to the tile speakers speaker's table talle The Tile conference tonight of the tine members of the tho committee com coin on interstate an and foreign commerce commerce com corn merce of which Representative Hepburn Hepburn Hep hop burn Is chairman will wi decide the method of oC procedure Ue Lighthouse e BUI Bi The most Important bill bi passed toca tolay tolay to- to I ca lay was the tile Mann lann omnibus l bill bi which c carries les an appropriation of about S and authorizes lighthouse light light- Ight- Ight house I keepers keepers' dwellings for signals J lightships and other aids to lon tion ton Two bills bis of d a financial nature were favorably acte acted upon One authorizes the he secretary of oC the tile treasury to issue Isue I gold Jold certificates In the thc denomination or o f 5 Instead of twenty dollars as ms ashe the he law now provides The Thc other Increases ln- ln creases the amount of bullion bulon that can cnn be held in the tile reserve fund of the tte treasury from the value of fifty to toone ono one hundred million dollars Tho rhue Archaeological institute of America Americ was voted a fe federal eral charter Filibuster Cont Continued lii tied Democratic floor leader Williams persisted in his Ills filibuster today and many were the points of argument Speaker Cannon however was arGument in ill the tile best of humor and his witty vitty wity remarks and arid happy faculty of counting a quorum always awas prevented a 0 call cal of the house The speaker also algo made mado an amusing rule as to what could be bedone bedone bedone done on suspension day Well Vel have Ilave no rules he said sid and if It were ph physically possible we could pass an elephant by a two thirds vote One Ole Measure len Ie J Lost st st. Only one measure was defeated and that was a bill bi extending the time for the completion of oC the Alaskan Central railroad and giving giving more moro land to the company compan for Cor terminals and stations This measure was attacked b by the tue Democrats as class clas le legislation Among AmonS the most important of or the theother theother other othel bills bis passed was one providing severe ors penalties for shanghaiing sail sail- sai- sai m |