Evening star., 1902-03-22
PASSED BY THE SEN ATE
BILL FOR THE PROTECTION OF
THE PRESIDENT.
The Vote Was SO to 15-Bill to Repeal
the War Taxes Went Through
Without a Division.

The bills for the repeal of the war rev.
enue taxes and lor the protection of the
President Of the United States were passed
by the Senate yesterday afternoon. The
revenue bill was passed without division
and after only one short speech, Mr.. Till
man embraced the opportunity afforded by
the BIS consideration to protest against
the repeal of the duty Of 10 cents a pound
upon tea.
Protection of the President.
The bill for the protection Of the Presi-
dent was passed by vote of 80 to Is. All
amendments offered to the measure were
rejected. The bill provides that any per-
son, within the United States. who shall
willfully and maliciously kill the President
or any officer on whom the duties of Presi
dent may devOlve, or any sovereign Of
foreign country, or shall attempt to kill any
Of the persons named. shall suffer death;
that any person who shall aid, abet advise
or counsel the killing of any of the persons
named or shall conSpire to accomplish
their death, shall be imprisoned not exceed
ing twenty years; that any person who
shall threaten to kill or advise or counsel
to kill the President, or any official on
whom the duties of President may devolve
shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years;
that any person who shall willfully aid in
the escape Of any person guilty Of any of
the Offenses mentioned shall be deemed an
accOmplice and shall be punished as prin-
cipal. The Secretary Of War is directed to
detail from the regular army a guard of
officers and men to protect the President,
without any unnecessary display" and the
Secretary is authorized to make regulations
as to the dress, arms and equipment and
duties of such guard.
The Dill to protect the President was
passed by the following vote:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Bard. Beveridge,
Burnham. Burrows. Burton, Clark (Mont),
Clark (Wyo.), Cockrell, Cullom, Deboe, De-
no 1Itv,rrI rI,ar
Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster Oa.), Foster
(Wn), Frye, Gallinger, Gamble, Gibson,
Hanna, Hansbrough, Harris, Hawley, Heit
field, Hoar Kearns, Kittredge, Lodge, Nc
Comas, Mcmillan, Martin, Mitchell, Nelson,
Perkins, Platt Comm, Pritchard. Proctor,
Quarles. Scott, Simmons, Spooner, Stewart,
Teller. Vest, Warren. Wetmore-52.
Nays-Bacon Bailey, Bate, Berry, Black
Patterson, Pettus Rawlins, Taliaferro, Till
man, Wellington-15.-
A bill appropriating s125OO0 for a marine
hospital at Buffalo, N Y, was passed by
the Senate.
On motion of Mr.. Proctor chairman of
the committee on agriculture, the oleomar-
garine bill was made the unfinished busi
ness.
Repeal of War Taxes.
The only speech on the war revenue re-
peal bill was made by Mr.. Tillman. He
argued in favor Of retaining the duty of
ten cents pound on tea.
The owners of teas, now in this country
in bond. he SAID. would get the benefit OF
the removal of duty to the amount of 3d.,
100000. Since the duty had been levied
upon tea the United States had been re-
ceiving better quality Of tea, which had
been supplied to the people at no increased
price. He said too, that the experiment of
tea culture was being made in South Caro-
lima and he believed 1t would be successful.
This was a baby industry" and really
needed the protection. The tea culture In
dustry gave occupation to many colored
children and might do much other good
At the conclusion of Mr.. Tillman's speech
the war revenue repeal bill was passed
without division or further comment.
+ At 4:55 the Senate went into executive
session; at $40 pm. adjourned uRtil Mon
day.