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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
2
Long夜 filibuster highlight as Sen LaFollette and colleagues clash over quorum and currency bill. Stone reads documents at low voice while Aldrich presses procedural questions amid scattered cheers and interruptions.
May 30 report notes Senator LaFollette delivered a lengthy address surpassing ex Senator Allen of Nebraska who spoke against repealing the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Other senators read from documents to ease the strain on his voice.
Arkansas Senator Jefé Davis leaves Little Rock this afternoon to join Senator LaFollette in the filibuster mood. He plans to reach Washington and appear in the Senate Monday to speak for two days.
Representative Tawney of Minnesota condemns Senate filibuster for delaying June pension payments to widows and veterans and halting government printing office work. He argues the minority’s tactics threaten printing office jobs and urgent public service funding.
The Presbyterian general assembly adjourned at noon after a formal dissolution and a final hymn. The most notable action was the appointment of an executive commission to oversee finances, budgets, and methods, with fifteen members including ministers and elders from across the country. The assembly praised leaders, committees, and various groups, and approved catechism revisions for home and Sabbath schools before congratulating the U.S. President on arbitration efforts.
Society notes show William Hlatcher of Kansas City and Stella Grace Smith connected in a local engagement or ceremony with minimal readable details. Further context unavailable in the fragment.
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