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ow we tae Owe bee CIIO- T.0o oe erm te That same evening, twenty-three Democrats and one Republican at- =~ journment. tempted to force an all-night session in the House of Representatives. __ 109 nays, : Each speaker had previously been granted unanimous consent to ad-. House adjo: dress the House for one hour. The first of the antiwar advocates, — The next Andrew Jacobs, Jr., rose to speak at 7:30 P.M. Reading from a pre- An estimat: " pared text, Jacobs claimed that he believed Nixon was sincere in hia tions or pez views about the Vietnam War, but disagreed with the President's doors for th methods and urged the ending of hostilities. The Indiana Democrat _ ing for an « was followed by Ogden Reid (R., N.Y.), who related the Vietnam War ' DC., on No to the fact that “our air and water have become more polluted.” war machir Abner J. Mikva (D., Mll.), who spoke later, claimed that the Vietnam At one o! _ War had “diverted” the. United States from the urgent social-and audience a: : economic problems we face here at home and urged the application of — the Minne: war dollars to eliminate “hunger.” - I think : Representative Benjamin Rosenthal recommended an immediate. frst milit “massive withdrawal” of American troops and advocated the establish- ‘measure o ment of a coalition government in South Vietnam. His advice was immediately opposed by Edward J. Derwinski (R., IIl.), who called the In Boston £ New York Democrat’s attention to the failure of coalition govern- the World . ments in China, Rumania, Hungary, and other countries. Rosenthal irrevocable answered Derwinski’ $ comparisons with a claim that the mixed group- by the end ing in Laos was actually working.” withdrawal Representative William F. Ryan (D.,N. Y. )attacked American partic: Senator F ipation in the war and stated that .“in Vietnam the United States in Lewistor intervened in what was essentially a civil war.” Ryan later charged the Preside that America’s ambassador to South Vietnam, Elisworth Bunker, was rather thar. a champion of outdated policies. He also recommended that all fund- tions to the ing for military activities in South Vietnam be halted and the NLF be an orderly : allowed to participate in that country’s government. the Saigon At 10:05 p.m. a point of order was made that a quorum was not : Senator I present. The roll was called and only 210 Members responded, eight Federation short of the number-necessary to enact legislation. A parliamentary rium and i: _ discussion was held, and it was conceded that there were two alter- scribed Prez . natives—either a motion to adjourn, or to “instruct the Sergeant at in Vietnair Arms to produce the missing members.” Representative James H. _ Washingtor. Quillen (R., Tenn.) moved -to adjourn, further parliamentary inquiry “ensued, and finally the Members were polled on the question of ad- wonderlan. tion to an io bill of $12. ~ © The extent to which the coalition government was “working” in Lacs had been every con . demonstrated by the assassination of Colonel Ketsana Vong Souvan, a senior neutral © __ votes are + ist leader. A further illustration of the success of the mixed administration was shown , tures. (Co: when Communist forces chased neutralist tank units from positions they had been . guaranteed under the terms of the Peace ‘agreement. a — . a. a ® New York