WARRING SENATORS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 9

WARRING SENATORS

COMPROMISE REACHED NAVY BILL AND PACT (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 9.35 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thursday. After a filibuster lasting over two hours, the warring Senate factions agreed to delay consideration both of the Kellogg Treaty and the Naval Cruiser Bill until after the Christmas recess. Under the agreement, both measures will be made the unfinished business of the Senate on January 3, and the Senate then must vote on which it desires to take up first. The agreement was made only as a last resort to prevent the filibustering continuing until Saturday at the adjournment time and thus tying up all the Senate business. The settlement was proposed by Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who pledged that he would make a motion as soon as the Senate met on January 3 to proceed with consideration of the treaty in an open executive session. Senator Borah indicated that he hoped thereby to get the treaty passed before the Naval Bill. FIGHT AGAINST BILL

The fight against the Bill to provide for 15 cruisers started in the Senate at a late hour yesterday, when two advocates of the Kellogg Pact blocked a motion by Senator Hale, chairman of the Naval Committee of the Senate, that the Bill he discussed. Senator G. W. Norris and Senator W. H. King were upset, for a moment at least, at the suggestion that the Naval Bill be given precedence, for when Senator Hale moved that business on the Bill should proceed Sena tor Norris announced that he would debate the motion as long as possible in order to prevent a vote being taken on it.

Senator King attempted to move that Senate consider the Kellogg Treaty, instead of the Cruiser Bill, whereupon a general uproar arose. As a result it was moved that the session be closed.