A long filibuster, Wash. D.C. A five and half hour filibuster by Sen. Long of Louisiana, caused the seventy-fourth congress, first session, to give up the ghost, without approval of the last of the President's "must" measures-the-third deficiency bill. Sen. Long, is shown as he left the floor of the Senate, and rested for the moment from his tireless efforts, 82735

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To be sure, the US Supreme Court let stand on grounds of mootness a highly dubious Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, handed down more than six weeks before the election, which allowed ballots filed after 8 p.m. on election day to be counted. I regard the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s action as a clear case of judicial usurpation of the legislative control of elections, which the Supreme Court should have heard before the election, but, by a 4–4 vote, did not.