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Legislation has also often been defeated or modified by the mere threat of a filibuster. All the bills listed above. however. except the force bill. the armed ship resolution. and the socalled civilrights bills. were eventually enacted. in some form. Legislation delayed or defeated by filibustersContinued BillsContinued Years Colombian Treaty (Panama Canal) - 1903 Ship subsidy bills (2) ---- 1907. 192223 Canadian reciprocity bill ----------- 1911 ArizonaNew Mexico statehood --- 1911 Ship purchase bill --------------- 1915 Armed ship resolution ------------- 1917 Oil and mineral leasing bill and several appropriation bills ------- 1919 Antilynch bills (3) .... 1922. 1935. 193738 Migratory bird bill ---------------- 1926 Campaign investigation resolution_- 1927 Colorado River bills (Boulder Dam project) (2) --------------- 1927. 1928 Legislation delayed or defeated by filibustersContinued BillsContinued Years Emergency officers retirement bill_. 1927 Washington public buildings bill-- 1927 Nationalorigins provisions in immigration laws. resolution to postpone ------------------------- 1929 Oil industry investigation --------- 1931 Supplemental deficiency bill ---- 1935 Work relief bill ("prevailing wage" amendment) -------------------1935 Floodcontrol bill ----------------1935 Coal conservation bill -------------1936 Antipoll tax bills (4) - 1942. 1944. 1946. 1948 Fair employment practices bills (2) ----------------------- 1946.1950 Numerous appropriation bills. (For a partial list of 82 such bills filed from 1876 to 1916. pp. 1015210153.) Of the 36 measures listed above. all but 11 eventually became law. in some cases after compromises had been made in their provisions following the failure of cloture. The table below. prepared at the direction of Senator HAYDEN. shows the later action on 35 filibustered bills. The 36th measure (the second FEPC bill) was filibustered in 1950. subsequent to the table that follows: Later action on 85 filibustered bills Not Not Bills Filibustered Passed passed Bills Filibustered Passed passed (10) (10) Reconstruction of Louisiana ----- 1865 ---------------- 1868 -------------.........