The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
All the Republicans and 29 Democrats Voted for
 the Measure
SUBSTITUTE DIFFERS FROM
 SENATE BILL MATERlALL,
Portion of the Bill Providing for a Bu- -eau of Insurance Was Stricken From the Measure-Rich-
 ardson Takes Hand.

Washington, January 11.-At the end or a struggle which prolonged the days ses-
 sion until after 6 o'clock, the house
 passed the substitute for the senate bill
 to establish a department of commerce and labor.
 The vote stood 137 to 40. All the re- publcans and twenty-nine democrats voted for the bill. In committee of the whole the democrats and a sprinlsling of republicans led by MT. Corliss, repub- llcan, of Michigan, struck out the DOT ton of the bill providing for bureau of insurance. The only other substantial amendment was one to authorize the President to transfer the interstate com merce commission to the new depart ment
 The substitute as passed by the house differs from the senate bill in impor- tant particulars. It leaves the life-sav- ing service. the marine hospital service, the steamboat inspection service, the bureau of navigation and the shipping commissioners under the control of the treasury department, but authorizes the President in his discretion to transfer oth- CT bureaus for the collection of statistics and the interstate commerce commission
 to the new department It places under the control of the new department the
 national bureau of standards, the coast
 and geodetic survey, the bureau of sta 1 tistics, the census bureau. the bureau of
 foreign commerce the bureau Of imnii-
 8 ,.lion. including hinisdiotipnl over ch'-
 nese immigration, and also creates the 1 bureau of manufactures and corporations. !
 The department of commerce bill was
 taken up soon after the house was called to order this morning, and the measure was read for amendment under the five minute rule, general debate having been closed MT. Richardson of Alabama moved
 to strike out the words and labor" In
 the title of the new department, "de-
 partment of commerce and labor" He
 said he was not individually opposed 70
 the creation of the department of com
 merce but objected to the incorpora- tion into 1t and the subordination Of the independent bureau of labor. It was de- feated.
 MT. Corliss of Michigan moved to strike from the bill the provision making IL the
 duty of the department to foster, promote | and develope the insurance business or l the United States"
 | The motion prevailed-70 to 65. MT Cowherd of Missouri moved to de- l crease the salary of the director of census | from s6000 to $4OO0, but the amendment
 was lost.
 MT. sulzer of New York offered as an amendment a comprehensive bill he had ! introduced to create bureau or cor
 porations, which would have extensive powers of compelling publicity or matters
 relating to corporations.
 Sulzer's Amendment crudely Drawn.
 MT. Mann of Illinois designed MT. Sul-
 gers amendment as ''crudely drawn
 section." which the house could not ac- 1 cept. II. C. Smith of Michigan and MT
 Thayer of Massachusetts favored the amendment MT. Sulzer denied that the l bill he had offered was crude. He said
 if had been drawn by one of the greatest 1 lawyers in the country. and was gen 1 erally supported by the labor organiza- | tons.
 The amendment was defeated-75 to 90. motion by MT. Corliss of Michigan to | strike out the provision for the creation 1 of a bureau of insurance led to pro1dc'- 1 ed discussion.
 The section relating to the bureau or
 corporations created no comment. It was | amended without debate to make the chief 1 of the bureau an appointee of the Pres | ident
 | An amendment offered by Overstreet or | Indiana to section 13, to allow the Pres | ident in his discretion to transfer by ex-
 ecutive order the interstate commerce | commission to the department or com
 merce was adopted. An amendment was | adopted providing that the transfer or the 1 old bureaus to the new department snali
 not take effect until July 1, 1903. When l tt ttea af ha vvh | amended house substitute of the senate l measure Mir Hepburn of Iowa, by parliamentary maneuver, succeeded m | bringing the house to a direct vote on the
 substitute with the original sections rela- ! tive to the bureau of insurance tncorpor-
 ated In 1t. Instead of moving the adop-
 ton of the amended substitute he moved
 the adoption of a substitute. which he
 offered and that substitute was the orig | inal with the insurance bureau sections
 restored. It also included MT. Overstreets
 amendment authorizing the transfer Of l the interstate commerce commission to | the new department
 | Mir Hepburn's motion was lost. | Mir Richardson of Alabama moved to | recommit the bill as agreed on in com | mittee of the whole with instructions to | report 1t back amended so as to create | two departments. one of commerce and | one of labor. and to incorporate MT. Sul-
 gers provision for a bureau of corpor- | ations In the former
 Upon his motion the roll was called. | The motion to recommit was lost-S5 to | 115, a party vote with the exception of
 Messrs Alpin of Michigan and Tompkins. Ohio republicans. who voted aye, and Messrs. Howard and Maddox of Georgia. | democrats, who voted no.
 | The vote then recurred upon Mir. Cor i liss motion, and on roll call the sub stitute was adopted and the bill passed : 137 to %.