The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-12
THE PACIFIC CABLE BILL
The Senate Passes This With an APP :
preparation of Sc, 100000.
PORTO RlCAN BILL MAY Be A LAW TODAY
Nine Republicans Voted Against 1t. The House
Concurred in All the Senate Amend
ments. Closing Struggle Over Bill
Drew Immense Crowds.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, April little long
and bitter struggle over the Porto
Rican Tariff Bill ended today when
the House by vote\of 161 to 153 con-
Cured in all the Senate amendments.
The bill now requires only the sigma
ture of the Speaker of the House and
the President OF the Senate before
going to the President for his approx
al. These signatures will be attached
tomorrow and before nightfall the blll
probably will be a law.
AS the bill originally passed the
House it was simple. bill imposing
Is per cent of the Dingley rates on
goods going into Porto Rico from the
United States and coming from Porto
Rico into the United States. AS
amended by the Senate and today
agreed to by the House all restric-
tons on goods coming into the United
States from Porto Rico are eliminated
and certain food stuffs and other ar
ticles which heretofore have gone into
Porto Rico free by executive order
are excluded from the operations OF
the Is per cent duty imposed on goods
entering the island from the United
States. A complete scheme of civil
government for the. island is also at
tached to the measure. Upon the final
vote nine Republicans voted against
the bill, Messrs. Ileatwole, of MINES
ota, Crumpacker, of Indiana, Lane, OF
Iowa, Littlefeld, of Maine. Mccall. OF
Massachusetts, H G.. Smith, OF Mich
igan, Warner, of Illinois, Fletcher, OF
Maine. and Lorimer, of Illinois. Two
Democrats. MessIS. Davey and Meyer,
of Louisiana were paired with Demo-
Gratis IL favor of the bill and one DEM
ocrat. Mr.. Siblev. of Pennsylvania,
voted for it outright. Mr.. Devries, the
other Democrat who voted tor the
original bill, today voted against con-
currence. Mr.. Stallings, Democrat,
of Alabama. was the only member on
either side absent and impaired. The
vote came at five o'clock after very
interesting and at times exciting de-
bate of five hours. which covered not
only the bill, but the special order,un
der which the House acted. One OF
the most dramatic features OF the day
was the reading by Mr.. Richardson,
the minority leader, of the original
opinion of Charles Z. Magoon, the
legal adviser of the War Department,
in favor of the view that the constr
tuition extended over Porto Rico eX
proprie vigore. Mr.. Deliver, OF Iowa
in reply termed Mr.. Magoon Il clerk
who tried to over-rule the great law
yer at the head of the War Depart
lnent. Messrs. ii. c. Smith, o. Mich
igan, Warner, of Illinois, Crurnpacker,
of Indiana, Mccall, of Massachusetts,
and Lorimer, of Illinois, all Republi-
cans, made speeches against the mo-
ton to concur.
The closing struggle over the meas
ure extracted immense crowds 10 the
galleries and marked field day III
Congress.
AS soon as the reading of the jour
nal was concluded Mr.. Dalzell (Pa.),
one of the leaders of the majority and
Il member of the committee on rules
presented the special order under
which the House was to operate as
follows:
''Resolved. that Immediately upon
the adoption of this resolution the
committee of the whole House ON the
State of the Union shall be discharged
from the consideration OF II. i. S245
(the Porto Rican Bid, and the Sen
ate amendments thereto; that the
same shall be considered in the House
until p. m. Wednesday, April 18th,
1900, when, without delay or other mo-
ton vote shall be taken on the mo-
ton TO concur III the said Senate
amendments EN- gross. And al mem
bers shall have leave to speak on the
subject of said bill and amendments
for ten days from the adoption of
this rule"
Upon demand Of Mr.. Dalzell the
previous question on the adoption of
the rule was ordered. This gave TWEEN
ty minutes for debate on each side
under the rules. Mr.. Dalzell discussed
the rule briefly. 1T was the opinion
of the majority, he hid, that the Sen
ate Civil Government amendments
should be conculred in. What the
country desired was not debate in
but action.
Mr.. Richardson, the minority lead
er, called attention to the fact that
the rule would Permit the House 70
vote only upon d single proposition
If it had been possible for lie SEN
ate to add TO the iniquity of the origin
al bill levying Is per cent of the Ding
ley duties on goods going into Porto
Rico. he said. it had done SO in the
so-called civil government amend
ments. under which guise the Senate
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