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→Floor showdown: the legislation is killed
====Floor showdown: the legislation is killed====
====Floor showdown: the legislation is killed====
Despite approval of the Dyer Bill by the Judiciary Committee already at the end of June, Republican senators hesitated to introduce the bill to the floor throughout August 1922 and the first half of September.<ref name=tarbert/> Procrastinating until the final full day of the congressional session prior to adjourning as the midterm elections approached, Shortridge in the afternoon of September 21, securing the floor, prepared to introduce the bill. However, upon yielding towards two party party colleagues, Mississippi Democratic senator Byron P. "Pat" Harrison invoked a point of order, interrupting for two hours. By the time Shortridge had the ability to regain the chamber, the absence of numerous senatorial colleagues, who departed for the evening, created the absence of a quorom.<ref name=tarbert/>
Shortridge's parliamentary skills proved unable to overcome that of Democratic opponents Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and Byron P. "Pat" Harrison of Mississippi,<ref name=greenidge/> who along with Borah successfully hindered the Dyer Bill's passage.
Shortridge's parliamentary skills proved unable to overcome that of Democratic opponents Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and Byron P. "Pat" Harrison of Mississippi,<ref name=greenidge/> who along with Borah successfully hindered the Dyer Bill's passage.