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Show rPES flFTfon1 1 AITS'" ITh H- P PPPt H& .- BS ' Gft pflwl- Ifisl ' b S U HAS BEGM Speaker Cannon lules That Today is Yesterday Yester-day in the House Washington, Feb IS. Speaker Cannon, Can-non, at 12.30 o'clock this afternoon, made the unique ruling that, Insofar as the national house of representatives represent-atives is concerned, today Is yesterday. yester-day. In other words, he sustained tho contention that Friday's session was still In progtess. Then came the speclaclo of a big majority of the house members, composed com-posed of practically all of tho Democrats Demo-crats and many of the Republicans, trying In vain to work their will against the virilo Republican majority valiantly led by Repiesentative Mann of Illinois. Mr. Mann filibustered all day yesterday against the passage of . the omnibus war claims bill. After he had failed in hls effort, to have , the session resumed at 11 o'clock this morning declared a new legislative day, Mr. Mann renewed his filibuster and began to demanjjroll call on every ' proposition put beforethe house. Indications In-dications were thattho filibuster would continue all day and Into the night |