The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-12-17
Reciprocity Bill Goes With
a Rush on Final Vote
in the Senate.
70 PER CENT LESS
Customs on Cuban Goods
Entering American
Ports Reduced.
ny ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Dec. I7.--By the decisive
vote OF 81 to I8, the senate yesterday
passed the bill carrying into effect the
reciprocity treaty with Cuba The prin-
cpal speeches were made by Mr. Spooner
for the bill and Mr.. Bailey against it.
The treaty provides for a reduction of
20 per cent from the rates under the Ding
ley law on all Cuban articles imported
into the United States and varying re-
duction from 20 to 40 per cent from the
established Cuban duty on articles into
Cuba from the United States After the
passage Of the Cuban bill the senate agreed
to the house resolution providing for
holiday recess from December 10 to jan
uary 4.
Vote at a :45.
At AS the vote on the final passage
of the bill was taken, President Pro Tenn
Frye, announcing the passage Of the bill
81 to IS.
ieas-Aldrich, Alger, Alec Allison,
Ankeny, Bacon, Ball. Beveridge Black
burn, Burnham. Burrows, Burton, Clapp,
Clark (Wyo.) Clay, Cockrell, Culom. De-
pew. Dillingham;, Dolliver, Dryden. Elkins,
Fairbanks, Foraker Foster (Wash.), Frye,
Fulton Gallinger, German, Hale. Hanna,
Hansbrough, Hepburn. Hoar, Hopkins,
Kcan, Lodge. Long McComas, McCreary,
McCumber, Mitchell, Nelson, Overman,
Penrose, Perkins. Platt Comm, Platt (N.
W, Proctor, Quarles, Scott Simmons,
Smoot, Spooner, Stewart, Stone, Wetmore
81.
Noes-Bailey, Bard, Bate, Berry, Car
mack, Culberson, Daniels, Dubois, Foster
Ua), McEnery, McLauron Mallory,
Martin, Newlands, Pettus, Talaferro, Tel
Ter. Tillman-IS.
Pairs were announced as follows: Haw-
ley with Clark (Mont) Millard with
Clark (Ark.o;' Kearns with Gibson; War
ren with Money Quay with Morgan, and
kittredgc with Patterson.
Copyright Laws.
The senate committee on patents today
directed favorable reports on two bills in
the interests OF literary, arts, composers
and other workers in the fine arts. In
one bill protection is afforded foreign ex-
hibtors OF the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position by giving them the sole right OF
producing and vending their literary or art
works for a term of two years under the
copyright law, upon payment of fee OF
$I.5o for each title or description recorded
at the library of congress.
The full term OF the copyright privilege
may be obtained by filing two copies of the
original text of any book or copies of any
work of art brought into this country for
the purpose Of exhibiting at the St. Louis
Exposition. Another bill increases the
protection given to authors or proprietors
OF books in foreign languages in obtaining
translations into the English language
for sale in this country.
Hoar on Panama.
Mr.. Hoar then addressed the senate on
his resolution calling upon the president
for such information as may be in his pos
session relative to the status of the re-
public of Panama when the treaty with
that country was negotiated.
Mr.. Hoar began by saying that he was
favorable to the isthn,an canal and de-
srous that the present president of the
United States should build the waterway
But, anxious as he was for the accomplish
mcnt of these ends, he was even more
anxious that the canal should be built
without taint or suspicion OF national dis
honor.
What we want to know" he said, "is
did this government, knowing that a revo-
lution whether peaceable or otherwise
should be permitted to go on without in
terruption, and whether our national au-
thorities took measureo to prevent Colom-
bla from stopping it,
At the beginning of todays session of
the senate Mr.. McComas of Maryland re-
ported bill from the committee on priv
ileges providing for the protection of ex-
hibitors of artistic musical and literary
works at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, and
at his request the bill was given immediate
consideration and passed.
In the House.
Central American affairs were dis
cussed in the house yesterday, and also
pensions, industrial and agricultural con-
ditions and labor.
Mr.. Hit said the president had been ac-
cused of being too slow, then with being
fast. The president had only done his
duty in preserving peace on the isthmus,
as he was charged to do under the treaty.
There was no other authority on the
isthmus with which to negotiate treaty
than that recognized.
Mr.. Parker (rep) of New Jersey re-
viewed the history of the isthmus of Pan
ANA and its. relations to Colombia.
Mr.. Birdsall (rep.) OF Iowa. who suc-
ceeded former Speaker Henderson, COM
pared industrial and agricultural condi-
tons under democratic and republican
administrations.
Labor Question.
He was followed by Mr.. Lvernash
(Cal.), who spoke on the labor question.
He said labor believed that some great
wrong principle existed which needs
semedying.
"Onc Of the greatest enemies of or- |