Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-01
TARIFF FOR THE ISLE.
Porto Ricon Measure Went
Through the House.
PASSED BY A VOTE OF lel TO 17s.
Blk Republican,. BaIloted Against hin
and Four Democrats For It-Six Men
Brought From Beds of siekness--sib-
ley's Clash With Democrats.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The battle
royal over the Porto Ricon tariff bill
ended in the house in victory for the
Republicans. The bill, amended a:
agreed upon at the conference Of Repub
hcans on Monday night, so as to reduce
the tariff from 20 to 10 per cent Of tbs
American tariff, and limiting its life tC
two years, was passed by vote Of ~
yeas to lGl nays. Six Republicans
Messrs. Crumbacher (Ind.), Fletcher
Mimi, Heatwole Mimi, ik5lefield
(Me.), Lorimer Glls.), and Mccall
(Mass.), voted with the opposition
against the bill, and four Democrats
Messrs. Davey and Myer (La.), Dev.
ries Cali, aud Sibley Pa, voted with
the Republicans for the bill. n add.
ton, Mr.. Warner rep, Tlls.) was paired
against the bill with Mr.. Boutelle rep,
Me-, for it.
Two other Republicans. Mr.. Lane f1a.)
and Faris eInd.) were absent and I'M
paired They were understood to be
against the bill. Four Democrats who
NGIt QDI@bStAt w lAit Ditit AIt6ai =. n itiil-
ing, Gao, Small IN. ca, Smith ky }
and Stallings Ala. were absent and un.
paired Other pairs were Gibson
(Tenn.), Reeves Glls.), Boutelle (Me.1,
Hammer (Pa.), Bailey (Kan.), Sheldon
(Mich.), Wadsworth IN. ", all Re
publicans, for the bill, with Tate Gao J,
Parkman Fla.), Fox (Miss.), Bellamy
= AHFnYp \ y
Democrats, all against the bill. Hercu-
lean efforts had been made TO get out
the full vote and this led to some re-
markable incidents.
Six men were brought from beds OF
sickness; two of them from hospitals.
Mr.. Brownlow, of Tennessee, was
brought In carriage acc jmpanied by
his wife and physician. He sat bundled
up near the entrance until his vote was
given, and then withdrew 1t was felt
that the strain would be severe on him,
but when Mr.. Tawney, the Republican
whip, urged that Il g bill might be lost
by this one vote, Mr.. Brownlow said:
81 would rather lose my life than see
this bill defeated Mr. Tawney and
three assistants We're out in carriages
until midnight Tuesday night account
ing for every vote, and Mr.. Underwood,
the Democratic whip, was similarly ex-
erting every means to get out his vote.
Three Democrats were brought from
sick beds.
The first test was ON substitute of
fered by Mr. Mccall, ON behalf of the
opposition. It was the original Payne
bill for free trade with Porto Rico, and
was defeated, 160 to ia Only five Re
publicans voted for the substitute. Mr.
Fletcher (Rep., Mimi who suisse
quently voted to recommIt and against
the bill, voted against the substitute. :
motion to recommit it, which followe,.,
shared q similar fate, being lost, 100 .
172, There was great excitementth through
out the roll calls, which were followed
with eager interest by thousands
spectators, who packed the galleries %
suffocation. The Republicans INDUCED
in a demonstration of wild jubilation
when the final result was announced
Daring the debate Mr.. Sibley (Pa.)
announced his intention of voting for
the bill. While we were debating the
situation the people of Porto Rico were
starving.
"The emergency interrupted Mr..
Williams Qlls.), ''is not in Porto Rico,
but in the politics of the Republican
party Democratic applause.
Mr.. Sitley-You have located the
politics ON the wrong side. Republican
applause.
Mr.. Williams-It is pretty hard to To-
cate you. Laughter.
Mr.. Sibley replied that as he had said
before, his seat could be considered CON
struetively ON the Republican side.
Continuing, he said that if it was estab-
hshed that every foot of territory owned
by the United States was on absolute
equality, then he was opposed TO
the whole policy of expansion. If the
inhabitants of the Philippines could
compete with American production and
American labar, he was willing to give
the archipelago to Aguinaldo.
Mr.. Sibley concluded with a scathing
Characterization of his Democratic
critics