The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-09
PARTY LINES ARE BR0KIN
Split Also occurs in the Re-
 publican Ranks.
Test Vote Develops Large Nsjority for : Reduction of Tariff ia Favor of cuba-Ths
 Fight Opens.

W8enlnkton, ApR1i e.-Ou the utSte WY
 of the debate on the Cuban reciprocity
 bill which opened in the House today. tha vote on a motion to go into commtttee of the whole to consider the bill devetcp- cd the lines of cleavage and showed thsk the Democrats are quite as much dividfd on the question as Is the majority, n the division which is regarded as pr4c- ticaily a test vote on the bill. l14 RepuP- iicans and s3 Democrats voted for tue motion and fl Democrats and 90 RepupH- cans against it. The vote was in.realtty
 more embarrassing to the Democrats than
 to the Republicans. as the members q
 the minority had called a conferences for
 tonight. at which they desired to get to-
 gether on course of action, The vota
 forced the hands of the Democrats as h.
 viduals before the caucus.
 Mir Payne. the Republican leader. open-
 ed the debate for the bill today in q
 strong speech which commanded close ar
 tention from both sides of the House.
 Mir. Newlands, a Democrat from He-
 vada, took the position that the conceg-
 sion should not be made to Cuba unless
 it were invited at tho same time to b4-
 come part of the United States. MT. Mcclellan. a New York Democrat.
 favored 50 per cent reduction for the
 benefit of Cuba. but gave notice that n the rate of reduction was not increased. he would vote for the bill. There was much activity among the leaders on both sides before the House convened in anticipation of the coming battle, and the attendance on the huorI was unusually large.
 | MT. Lacey uowa) asked unanimous con- | Al. <~r tSx | protect game and fish in Alaska sThere | was no obpection and the biil was passed. | MT. Payne, chairman of the Ways and | Means Committee, and leader of the ma | toritx. then moved that tho House 70 | into committee of the whole for the con sideration of the Cuban reciprocity bill. k Mir. Tawney tMinn) demanded to know 1 why the bill was privileged.
 | Mir. Payne replied that 1t affected the revenue. and the Speaker sustained that view. Thereupon. Mir. Roberson ha1 raised the point of order that the bik did not come within the purvfew of the rule. His contention was that the bill proposed to authorize reciprocal trade relations with Cuba--that it was not q bill to ratss or reduce revenues, and not amendabls as such. The Speaker held that under a long line of precedents the bill was priv | ileged.
 proposition as to a length of general debate but MT Payne cut him of with a demand for the regular order. The first test of strength came upon the motion to go into committee Of the | whole.
 A Imaginable incident occurred upon the division. On the viva voce vote the chorus of ''Noes'' was louder than the "Ayes'' and the Speaker announced that .the Noes seemed to have 1t. He lifted his gavel and looked at Mr- Payne. the majority leader. expecting him to demand a division but MT. Payne. made no move.
 Speaker.
 simultaneously MT. Mcclellan (N. n
 saved tho day by shouting Division! I demand aedivfsion"
 The result of the rising vote was watch cd with great interest. It resulted. Ayes. 107: noes. 10z.
 l A dozen Republicans demanded tellers and Mir. Fordney (Rep.. Mich) and Mr- Underwood (Dem.. Ala) demanded ths ayes and noes.
 The roll call followed. Many of thess who had voted against the motion on the rising vote changed their attitude when | thev were placed on record and the l friends of reciprocity won an easy vic- | tory. the motion being carried, 1fl to s4> present but not voting. Is.
 The following is the detailed vote. YeasAAcheson, Adams. Adamson. Alex ander, Allen (Me.). Bsbcock. Ball. Bars
 tholdt. Bates. Bingham, Soutel,, so~ies Brantley. Brick Brownlow. Bull. Burke (Pa). Burke IS. D., Burkett. Bur- leigh, Burnett. Burton. Butler (Pa1s Caldwell Candler. Cannon. Clark. Cochran, Cornell. Conner. Cooper tWis.l.
 Cousins, Cromer. Crowley. Crumpseker, C,urrier, Curtis. DalzeIl. Davidson. DeAr-
 mond, Dinsmorc. Douglass. .Dovercrs
 Driscoll. Emerson. Evans. Finley. Fitz- gerald. Fleming. Foss. Foster (Vt,l. Fexs
 Gardner (N. J.). Gibson. Gill. Gillett tE- YD. Gillett CMass.). GoIdfogle. Gooch. Graf Graham, Green (Pa0. Greene (Mass.). Grow. Hanbury. HaugeH. Hay, Hedge Hemenway, Henry tConn.). Henry (Miss.), Hill Hit. Howard. Irwin. Jack Johnson Jones tyah, Ketcham. Klutt1. Knapp. Knox, Kyle. Lacey. Laudis. Las sitter. Latimer. Lawrence. Lester. Lever. Lewis (Pa.) Lindsay. Littsuer. Little, Livingston. Lloyd, Long. Loudenslager. Mccall Mcclellan. McLain, MaddcK. Mann. Martin. Mercer. Mickey. Milisr.
 Mondell. Moody (Mass.) Moody tN. cl. Moody (Ore.), Moon. Morgan. Morrell. Moss, Mudd. Olmstead, Otgen. Padgett Palmer, Park, Patterson (Pa) Patterson | CTenn). Payne, Pearre CMd.), Perkins. Pierce. Tenn.). Pou. Powers CMe.l, Pow
 CTS (Mass0. Pugsley, Ray. Reeder. Reeves. | Reid Rhea, Richardson( Tenn0. Rixey.
 Robb. Roberts, Robinson Qnd). Ruppert,
 Russell. Ryan. Salmon, Scott. Selby. sherman. Sibley. Sims. Small. smith Gowa) Snodgrass .Southwick. Sperry. Stewart (N. Y), storm, Subway. Sulzer. Swanson. Taylor (Ala), Thayer. Thomas Qa. }. Terrell. Tompkins tN. Y.l. Tongue, Underwood. Vandiver Vreeland, Wachtsr. Waasworth. Wanger. Watson. Williams UlsD. Williams (Miss). Wiison-lT Nays-Allen (KS). Alpln. Ball (Tex9. | Bankhead. Bartlett. Bell, Bishop. Bower sock, Rreasele. Broussard, Brown. Bur zcss. Burleson. Butler tMel, Clayton, Conroy. Combs, Corliss, Cushman, par- zach naVev HaO Davis (Fia.l Dzx-