The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-13
President Taft After Penning
Signature Issues State
ment in Defense.
THE VOTE Ii, THE SENATE $1,000 At 10 81
Congress Adopts Concurrent Reso-
luton Correcting Leather Joker
and Then Adjourns Sine Die.

Ol l. ieSlueEt w lllld1n IlONatu
Taft, is now the customs law of
the United States. The meas
ure was signed by the president
late last week and went into eff
feet Immediately. At 6 O'Clock
Thursday evening, August 6,
congress adjourned sine die,
thus ending the extra session.
Prior to adjournment both
houses of congress adopted the
concurrent resolution correcting
the leather joker,
The vote on the adoption Of
the report stood At to 81. Sew
en- Of the progressive republic
cans voted against the final
passage Of the bill. The other
three who voted against the Al
drich bill when it left the Sen
ate a month ago-Burkett and
Brown Of Nebraska and Craw-
ford of South Dakota-changed
to the majority side at the fin
ish. Following is the vote in
detail:
Yeas-Alrlch, Borah, Bourne,
Bradley, Brandegee, Brown,
Bulkley, Burkett, Burnham,
Burrows, Burton, Cater, Clark
| (Wy.), Crane, Crawford, Gull
lom, Depew, Dick, Dixon, Cur
tbs, Dupont, Elkins, Flint Frye,
Gamble, Guggenheim, Hale,
Hepburn, johnson, Jones,
Kean, Lodge, Lorimer, McCum-
Der, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Per-
kins, Piles, Root, Scott, Smith
mich. Smoot, Stephenson,
Sutherland, Warner, Wetmore
At.
Nays-Bacon, Bailey, Bank
head, Beveridge, Brist W,
Chamberlain, Chpp, Clay, Cul-
berson, Cummins, Cummins,
Daniel, Dollver, Fletcher, Eos
ter, Frazier, Gore, Hughes, La
Toilette, McLaurin, Martin,
Nelson, Newlands, Overman,
Paynter, Rayner, Shively, Sim
mons, Smith (Md.), Smith IS.
C.), Stone, Taliaferre-3l
PRESIDENT TAFT's STATEMENT.
After he had signed the
Payne bill President Taft made
the following statement:
81 have signed the Payne
| tariff bill because / believe it to
be the result Of sincere effort on
the part of the republican party
| to make downward revision and
to comply with the promises Of
the platform as they have been
generally understood and as
interpreted them in the cam.
paign before election,
''This is not a perfect tariff
/ bill nor a complete compliance
with the promises made strictly
interpreted, but a fulfillmen
free from criticism in respect tx
asubject matter involving man.
schedules and thousands of al
ticles could not be expected. |
suffices to say that except witt
regard to whisky, liquors AM
wines, and in regard to silk
and as to some high classes 0
cottons-all Of which may b
treated as Injuries and prope
subjects Of a revenue tariff
there have been few increase
| in rates.
| There have been a great nun
| Der Of. real decreases in rates
! and they constitute a sufficier
/ amountto justify the statemer
+! that this bill is a substantit
| downward revision and a redut
!! ton Of excessive rates.
/ "This is not a free trade BID
!: 1t was not intended to be. II
+ republican party did not prom
! Use to make free trade bill.
1 at promised to make Il
| rates protective, but to redu'
| them when they exceeded Il
!; difference between the cost
| production abroad and her
i making allowances for Il