The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1900-03-01
NO SUBSTITUTE.
Attempt to Displace Amended
Ways and Means Committee
Measure s5. , @'.. p,
Defeated by a Vote Of 172. to 1852.
Move to Recommit Also Voted
Il .4 e Down.
80 WSEI ssS&fs, 55-EEs@s -: r..
Inthe End IOnlya Few Repub.
In5the End IOnlya Few Repub'
licans Vote With the DEM
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Ocf&LS.

J. WASHINGTON, March The last day
OF the struggle over the. Puerto Rico
tariff bill in the house opened at II
O'Clock, with almost every member in
his seat and large attendance in the
galleries. The leaders on both sides
We're actively engaged in rallying their
forces and making computations upon
the final vote. Immediately after the
reading of the journal, the clerk began
reading the bill for amendment under
the five minute rule. 49,. ..<.-s :
- When Section was read, Mr.. Payne,
chairman Of the ways and means COM
mnttee, offered substitute for that sec
ton, making the rate of duty Is per
cent OF the duties which are required to
be levied, collected and paid upon like
articles Of merchandise imported from
foreign countries.
Mr.. Berry (Ky.) said the amendment
proposed petty instead Of grand larceny
of the people Of Porto Rico. He rili-
culed the laborious debate over the ques.
ton Of what the ''Umted States'' meant
under the Constitution. If this country
had been called ''Columbia" instead Of
the ''United States" 1900 pages of the
Congressional Record could have been
eliminated No one would have had the
hardihood to contend then that the Con-
stitutiOn did not extend over every foot
of our soil
The bill was opposed in short speeches
by Mr.. De Almond (Mo.), Mr.. Fitzger-
aid (Mass.), and Mr.. Otey (Va.), and
defended by Mr.. Grow Pa.), Mr.. Graft
Qlls.), MIR. Cromwell (O.), who had
hitherto opposed the measure. and Mr..
Grosvenor CO.,. The Payne amend
ment was adopted without division.
Mr.. Payne offered the additional Sec
ton agreed upon at the conference of
Republicans on Monday night as fol-
lows:
''This act shall be taken and held to
be provisional in it's purpose and in
tended to meet a pressing, present need
for revenue for the island of Puerto
Rico, and shall not continue in force
after March /, 1902
Mr.. Powers (Vt.), Mr.. Sibley pa },
Mr.. Tomplzins IN. ", and Mr.. Hep.
burn Qa.) spoke in behalf Of the bill.
Mr.. Payne's amendment was agreed
to without division.
Mr.. Payne offered a preamble to the
bill reciting the serious condition of at.
fairs in the island and it was adopted
Oh a rising vote Of 1853 yeas to ISL nays.
At 3 o'clock, Mr.. Mccall (Mass) Oh
behalf Of the minority offered as sub
stitute the bill for free trade with Porto
Rico, originally introduced by Mr.
Payne and the yeas and nays We're OF
dered.
The substitute was defeated 1870 yeas
to IT'S nays.
The Republicans who voted with the
Democrats for the adoption of the sub
stitute were Heatwole (AIinn.), Little
field (Me.), Lorimer zGlls.), Mccall
(Mass.), Crumpacker Qnd.). The Dem
ocrats who voted with the Republicans
against the substitute were Davey an6
Meyer (La.), Sibley (Pa.), and Devrie:
| (Cal.).
| A motion was then made to recommi
the Porto Rican bill to the ways anl
means committee, but it was lost, IS:
to 172.