Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-12

Some Republicans Voting Against the Bill
and Some Democrats for It-An 1lysis of
the Vote and List of Pairs-Magoon's
Opinion That Porto Rico Is .-One of Us"
Read in the Debate-Its Origin Ex-
planned by MeIkIejohn.
Washington, April 12-The long and
bitter struggle over the Porto Rican
tariff bill ended yesterday when the
house 10y a vote of 1G1 to 1J3 concurred
in all the senate amendments. The
bill then required only the signature of
the speaker of the house and the presi-
dent of the senare before going TO the
president for his approval. These
signatures will be attached today, and
before nishtfalI the bill probably will
be law. AS the bill originally passed
the house il was a simple bill impos
ing II per cent. of the Dingley rates
on goods going to to Porto Rico from
the United States. As amended by the
senate and agreed TO by the house all
restrictions on goods coming into the
United States from Porto Rico are
eliminated and certain food Stuffs and
other articles which heretofore have
gone into Porto Rico free by executive
order are excluded from the operation
of the 10 per cent. duty imposed on
United States.
Scheme of Civil Government,
a complete scheme of civil govern
ment for the island is also attached to
the measure. Upon the final vote nine
Republicans voted against the bill
Heatwole of Minnesota. Crumpacker.
Lane of Iowa, Littlefield. Mccall of
Massachusetts, II. G. Smith of Mich
igan. Warne of Illinois. Fletcher of.
1t.
Denocrats-Davey and Meyer of Lou
isiana. were paired with Democrats in
favor of the bill. and one Democrat.
Sibley of Pennsylvania. voted for il
outright. DeNrieS. the other Demo
crat who voted for the original bill.
yesterday voted against concurrence.
Stallings of Alabama was the only
member on either side absent and un-
paired.
Legal Adviser Magoon's Opinion.
The vote came ut > o'clock, after a
very interesting and at times exciting
debate of five hours. which covered not
only the bill but the special order I'M
der which the house acted. One of the
most dramatic features of the day was
the reading by Richardson, the minor
ity leader. of the original opinion of
Charles T.. MagOOn. the legal adviser
of the war department. in favor of the
over Porto Rico ok proprie vigore Ma
gOOn later gave an opinion the other
way. Dolliver Of Iowa. in reply
termed MagoOn clerk who tried to
overrule ''the great lawyer at the head
of the war department" Warner of
Illinois, Crumpacker. Mccall of MasSa-
chusettS and LOrimer of Illinois. all
Republicans. made peeches against
the motion to concur.
Names oT Men Wbo Tara pa;raI
The pairs We're as follows. the first
named being in favor Of the bill Hull |
with Hay, Packer with Polk Barney
with Allen of Mississippi. Weymouth
with Broussard. Gillett of MasSachu- |
settS with Thayer. Hawley with Coop
er of Texas. Burkett with Burke of |
Texas. MahOn with Otey. Minor of |
Wisconsin with RiXey. Iybrand with |
CASTOR. Kerr with Carmack, Davey |
DEM with Crowley. Meyer Oem.I |
with Robinson of Louisiana. Often |
with Brenner. Wachter with Small. |
Stewart of New Jersey with Salmon |
Esch with Bailey of Texas, Boutelle |
with Cochran Of Missouri.