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...Alben W. Barkley, leader of the U.S. Senate majority, was droning out terms of a humiliating surrender to a handful of Southern Senators. In seven days' filibuster they had tongue-lashed the leader and a majority of the Senate to defeat...
Under musty, dynastic Senate rules, there was no other course left to Alben Barkley. The cloture vote was perfunctory. Only four times in history had the Senate suspended the sacred right of Senate filibusterers to filibuster. This was not one of them. The vote was 37 for limitation of debate; 41 against. (A two-thirds majority is required to invoke cloture...
Next day, to save their voices, the Southern Senators changed their tactics: they stayed away in droves to prevent a quorum. Majority leader Alben W. Barkley, stubbornly determined to get action, got the Senate to order the arrest of eight missing members who were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone...
Then up rose Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley. He wanted to make a final attempt to get the Senate back into the war-minded, driving frame it was in a few days before...
...Perhaps General Marshall had made a mistake in taking his military training at the Virginia Military Institute and by spending his life since in the Army, instead of taking it in the Senate," shouted Alben Barkley. "But I am not going to substitute my experience as a United States Senator and as a military strategist and organizer within these four walls for the expert knowledge which he possesses...