Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-04-06
SENATE PASSES BILL
Porto Rican Tariff Measure Gees
Through Upper House.
VOTE WAS FORTY TO THIRTY.ONE
Republican Victory Was Anticipated
and There Were No
Surprises.

4uO IOtLO hlChu LAI1H Oil WAS
passed through the senate Tuesday as
was anticipated. The vote was 40 to
81. There were sixteen absentees. all
Of them paired. OF the Republicans,
all voted for the bill except Davis Of
Minnesota. Proctor of Vermont, We'll
lington of Maryland, Mason of Hi
nOis, Nelson of Minnesota, and Simon
Of Oregon. Senator Hoar was paired
against the bill. Mr.. McEuery, OF
Louisiana, was the only Democrat
paired for the bill.
The vote was approximately what
had been prophesied for it. With the
eight paired votes, the total would
have been the 48 which was Senator
| Foraker's es innate.
There was much excitement at the
capitol during the entire day.
The building was crowded with visi-
tors from early morning, and during
the speeches of different senators the
galleries were crowded to their limit,
ard hundreds who came for Q sight of
the scene were sent away disappoint
ed. 1t was an interesting and memors-
able scene. The fact that the ulti-
! mate result was certain seemed to
make no difference with the Washing
ton crowds, which were on hand in as
great force as if the vote of a single
senator would decide the result.
The debate was under the fifteen
minute rule and the speeches, we're,
therefore, short, but they were to the
point.
When the hour of o'clock was
reached the chairman announced that
the votes upon the pending amend
ments and upon the bill should be
taken.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Foraker,
the committee amendments which had
been passed over we're reverted to and
adopted without discussion.
Mr.. Davis OF Minnesota then offer
ed his amendment providing that no
duties of imports or exports shall, af-
ter the passage of this act. be levied or
collected on any articles imported from
the United States into Porto Rico or
from Porto Rico into the United
States. Mr.. Davis demanded the yeas
and nays. The amendment was lost
| 80 to 40.
Without division two other amend
ments offered by Mr.. Davis were de-
feated. Then Mr.. Nelson, Republi-
can, of Minnesota, offered his free
trade amendment. The ayes and noes
were ordered and this amendment, too,
was lost, 20 to Al.
After an amendment offered by Mr..
Spooner, Republican, of Wisconsin,
making a slight change in the meas
ure had been accepted by Mr. Foraker
and agreed to, two amendments offered
by Mr.. Bacon, Democrat, Of Georgia,
one being q substitute for the entire
bill, were defeated without division.
Following is the detailed vote upon
the measure:
Yeas-AllisoD, Baker, Bard, Carter,
Chandler, Clark of Wyoming, Cullom,
Deboe, Depew, Fairbanks, Foraker,
Foster, Frye. Gallinger, Gear, Hanna,
HansbrOugh, Hswley, Jones of Ne
vada, Keane, Kyle, Lodge, Mcbride,
McComas, Mcmillan, PenrOse, Per-
kins, PlGtt OF Connecticut, Plat Of
New York, Pritchard, Quarles, Ross,
Scott, Sewell, Shoup, Spooner, Stew
art, Thurston, Wetmore, WOlcott-4O.
Noes-AlleD, Bacon. Bates, Berry,
Clark of Montana, Clay, Cockrel, Cul-
berson. Daniels, Davis, (Rep.l Harris,
Heitfeld, Jones of Arkansas, Kenney,
Lindsay, McLaurin, Martin, Mason
(Rep.) J, Money, Morgan, Nelson Rep. J,
Pettus, Proctor (Rep.l. Simon rep J,
Sullivan, TellisferrO, Teller, Tillman,
Turley, Vest. Wellington, (Rep. al.
The only change in the pairs on the
final vote related to Mr.. Beveridge, Of
Indiana. Mr.. Clark, Of Montana, an
nouuced that he understood, If pres
emit, Mr.. Beveridge would vote for the
bill. He therefore transferred his
pair to Mr.. Rawlins, Democrat, Of
Utah. This permitted both Mr.. Clark
and Mr.. Hanna (Mr. Rawlin's pair) TO
vote. niN