The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-04
ID ESTABLISH BANK IN THE PHILIPPINES By Vote of 167 to 89 House
 Passes Bill WILLIAMS AND DeARM0ND Two Minority Leaders Split on Meas ure-WIIams Voting Squsrely Against it--Rucker Makes
 Charge.
WILLIAMS AND DeARM0ND

Washington, March 3.--By a vote of 16I
 to S9 the House today passed the Senate bill providing for the establishment ol an agricultural bank in the Philppm3
 islands.
 The passage of the bill developed diam- etrically opposite views on the part of the two leaders of the minority, Mir. De-
 Armond of Missouri, voting for the meas
 ure, while MT. Williams of Mississippi the minority leader, stood squarely
 against it. The following democrats voted for the bill; Aiken of South Carolina, Bankhead of Alabama, DeArmond of Mis-
 souri, Howard Of Georgia, Kline of Penn 1 sylVanla, LeGare of South Carloina, Ran
 dall of Louisiana, Ruppert of New York, sherley of Kentucky Small of North | Carolina, Taylor of Alabama, Wiley of l Alabama. But two republicans voted
 against it, vix: Darrah of Michigan and
 Mann of lllionis.
 N nile the Dlll was under discussion MT. Fucker Of Missouri made the direct charge that certain democrats who were 1 in favor of the bill who had been the guests of the secretary of war on his trip to the Philippines last year, which
 he said might account for the position taken by these gentlemen, who were De
 Armond, Sherley, Wiley and Howard.
 In reply, MT. Sheriey said that the
 ''slur' cast by MT. Tucker upon the
 democrats who voted for the measure were uncalled for, in view of the fact that men who had seen the Philippine situation was better able to legislate thai l the men who had vague ideas as to con 1 dtions
 The bill was called from the speaker l table by Mir. Crumpacker of Indiana who moved to suspend the rules and pass 1 the bill.
 1 Instantly a half dozen democrats wei on their feet demanding d second. MT Fucker was recognized as a mem Der of the committee. He wanted tc
 know if the bill could be passed without amendment The reply of the speaker was characteristic "rhe House can pass | an elephant under suspension if the party in charge of the measure was re- 1 cognized for that purpose MT. Crumpacker explained the need: of the bank and made a speech in sup. port of it. Mr. Sherley also advocated | the passage of the bill as in the line of | lending much needed assistance to the | Philippines.
 | MT. Grosvenor of Ohio, who advocated ! the bill, expressed the opinion that the United States had been guilty of more NioiSS lOWdfuS the fnlllpplneS than | Spain had been, and MT. Longworth l thought that the bank bill should be 1 passed as a crumb of comfort due in the
 face of the failure to pass the Philip l pine traiff bill.
 l It was here that Mir. Fucker made his
 charge that Secretary Taft had won the support of members while they were his guests on the Philippine trip. l Mr. Williams said the old populists | scheme of sub-treasury was an angel
 in white in comparison with the Philip
 pine bank scheme and that he would
 never vote to guarantee self-seeking profit hunting capitalists per cent on their capital.
 Wiley for Bank. | Representative Wiley of Alabama voted l in the House today, with several other l members who accompanied Secretary | Taft to the Philippines summer before | last. for the Philippine bank bill. | Nearly all the other democrats voted | against il, Representative Williams, the l democratic leader, making a particularly
 strong speech in opposition to the meas. | ure.
 | The Senate today concurred in the
 House Philippine agricultural bank bill.