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...Coffee. Innumerable plans for new laws had been proposed already. Senator Homer Ferguson had a plan. Senator Wayne Morse had a plan. Various witnesses had plans. On the other side of Congress, various Representatives had plans. New York's freshman Senator Irving Ives, a longtime student of labor relations, proposed that House and Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale...
...Varsity summary: Ferguson (Y) defeated Stevens (H) 3-0; Kerr (Y) defeated Foster (H) 3-1; Bayne (Y) defeated Wightman (H) 3-0; Philbin (Y) defeated Francis (H) 3-1; Badge (Y) defeated Sheperd (H) 30; Van Slyck (Y) defeated Stewart (H) 3-1; Ewald (Y) defeated Tufts (H) 3-0; Blair (Y) defeated McGovern (H) 3-0; Philip (Y) defeated Heath (H) 3-2; Drake (Y) defeated McKittrick...
Ultimatum. Ferguson raged; Taft grew grim. At last, Taft made himself heard long enough to call first for a recess until noon of the next day (Saturday). Then, he said in cold anger, he would wait until Monday. And then, "if those who are now blocking the organization of the Senate have not changed their minds, I propose to keep the Senate in session to break this. Use of the filibuster on such an occasion for such an inconsequential purpose is so unjustifiable that if you do not change your minds you are going to face a complete change...
Ellender Yields. Hour after hour, next day, the filibuster rolled on. Ellender and New Mexico's Carl Hatch, author of the act under which Bilbo stood accused, excoriated the Republicans. Taft and Ferguson waited. They had served notice that the Senate would be held in session Saturday night, Sunday, continuously thereafter until the filibuster collapsed...
...that red-smoky light, and in the darkness that fell black as a pall when the fuel was consumed, Hostess Ferguson and the other survivors worked in the mud and the scattered wreckage for two hours before rescuers reached them. The injured and the dead had to be carried through knee-deep muck to flat-bottomed swamp boats, then ferried across the estuary to ambulances. It took all night and all the next day before the grim and bloody work was done...