The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-04-22
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT
The Chair Overruled and the Amend.
ment Passed.
THE VOTE on THE BILL IS 247 AGAINST 81
The Ate mpted Republican Dicker Which the
Democrats Failed to Embrace Pro ,oked
From the Minority Side Some
Rather Hot Language.
(By the Associated Press.)

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Washington, D.. c., April 1S.-The Dem
ocrats and the Republican insurgents
rode rough shod over the House leaders
today when the voting began on the Gu
ban Reciprocity Bill. They overthrow
the ruling of the chair in committee OF
the whole on the question Of the ger
maneness of an amendment to remove
the differential from refined sugar dur
ing the existence Of the reciprocity agree
ment provided for in the bill. The vote
to over-rule the decision OF the chair,
made by Mr.. Sherman, of New York, was
III to 100, Republicans to the number Of
3! joining with a solid Democratic vote
to accomplish this result. Having won
this preliminary victory the amendment
was adopted in committee, 164-11l, and
later in the House by a still larger ma
jority, 199-1O5. On this occasion 81 Re-
publicans voted with the Democrats
Tor the amendment. The bill was then
passed by an overwhelming majority,
247-52.
An anlysis of the vote shows that IA
Republicans and 1923 Democrats voted for
the amended bill and AZ Republicans and
ten Democrats against it. Mr.. Grosve-
nor, of Ohio, was one of those who voted
against the bill.
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, the
Democdatic leader, was the first speaker
today. He stated frankly that he
doubted whether the enactment of the
bill would do much to bring about the
reciprocal trade relations between Cuba
and the United States, which were earn
estly TO be desired. But he had voted
for it in the hope that it might accom-
plish something. 1t would at least re-
duce by 20 per cent the outrageously
high rates of the Dingley law, SO far as
Cuba was concerned. Those high rates
could not stand and, he said, Mr.. Gros-
venor's speech a few days ago was a
warning of the coming storm. He
thought the time for a revision of the
tariff was at hand, and the fact that the
pending bill began it in a modest way
commended the measure to him.
Mr.. Richardson called attention to the
action of two counties in the district of
Mr.. Babcock (Wis.) endorsing the lat
ter's bill to remove the the duties from
steel and amid Democratic applause. said
that the Democrats proposed to give Mr..
Babcock an opportunity later on to vote
for the bill his constituents had endorsed.
RICHARDSON SAYS NO.
Just before Mr.. Richardson took his
seat, Mr.. Bromwell, Ohio, asked him this
question::
Does the gentleman from Tennessee
know anything of a reported bargain be-
tween the leaders on this side and the
Democrats, by which the Crumpacker
resolution is to be smothered in order to
aid the passage Of the pending bill?"
absolutely nothing replied Mr..
Richardson.
Mn InnhIrrp Tnuro ro,,c nOnCj1Crl-
bic excitement by bringing forward the
resolution made in the Democratic
caucus last night concerning the alleged
overtures made from the Republican side
to abandon the. C~rumpacker resolution
If the Democrats from the States threat
ened would vote against overruling the
chair. After reading the account of; the
caucus in a morning paper. he proceeded
with great emphasis to declare hat the
charge, If true, or the statement, if
made, was of a very serious character.
1t charges some members of this
House with attempting to traffic with the
legislation before this body" he said.
1t charges them with a Willingness to
shelve legislation which members here
consider very important in order to Sc
cure the ultimate triumph of this bill.
Il do not believe it. l think the gen.
tlenan from Alabama (Mr. Underwood
must have been mistaken or misinform-
ed, but nevertheless, l think it his duty
to this House to be more explicit and to
locate this offense where it properly be-
longs"
The remaining time after Mr.. Hepburn
concluded-two hours and twenty min
utes-was divided equally between Mr..
TaWney (Minn.) who closed the debate
against the bill. and Mr.. Dalzell (Pa.).
who concluded for the measure. Mr..
TaWney, at the outset defended the
course of those or the Republican side,
VINO had not surrendered their convic-
tions that thrift might follow fawning."
: Mr.. TaWney said that this was the first
time Republican leaders had proposed
TO depart from the protective theory.
The republican party was bound in
honor to keep faith with those whom it
had induced to enter the beet sugar in
dustry.
Mr.. Dalzell in closing the debate for
the friends of the bill. declared that it
was not an attack upon protection. "It
is not a revision of the existing tariff
law or it's schedules. It will not harm
a single American industry or deprive
an American workman of a single days
wage. 1t is a step toward the redemp-
ZION OF the pledge we made, not to Cuba,
but to ourselves when we volunteered to
intervene to right the wrongs which
she was suffering under the Spanish
regime"
At 3 o'clock the time for general de-
pate expired and the bill. which con-
sisted of but one section, was read and
opened to amendment under the five min
ute rule.
FIGHT ON Fl DIFFERENTIAL.
The reading proceeded amid a good
deal of excitement. AS soon as it was