The Archive · 1930

SENATOR PLEASE'S FILIBUSTER

Washington, Mar. 18.

Senator Coleman Please of South Carolina to-day ended one-man! filibuster against the appointment of @ negro to be muni judge in Washington.

He said that he merely wanted the people of his own state to know that! he had never voted for a Negro.

However, he continued, "to the victor belongs the spoils."

"T have the honour of coming from a county where Herbert Hoover of get a single vote," Senator Please went on. "Why" should have anything to say" about Re eblican' appointments?"—Unit Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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