Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10
Tariff fight
BACK IN HOUSE !.
promptly Disagreed to Senate
Amendments and Conference
Requested Granted.
INSURGENTS in EVIDENCE.
INSURGENTS IN EVIDENCE E:
,,,,ori,y Leader Clark Said Bill Was
Bud When it Left House, Al
drich-smoot Bill Worse.

at;rorjty Icndcr Clark Sutu i'ill was
mad When it Left House, Al
drich-slnoot Bill Worse.
washington, July 9.--Thc tariff aues-
,,on has been shifted from both
no,ses Of Congress to a conference
committee. After one hour and hall
~ debate, the house today By q vote
as17S to 151 made a rule whereby
the SAT amendments of the senate
we're disagreed to and the conference
renested blythe senate granted, Eigh-
tefn Republicans voted against the
rnle and one Democratic for it
When the house met at noon IN
,erest was at fever heat. The leaders
IN 10th sides had notified their re-
snective forces to be oh hand, in ans
+icipation that the tariff bill would
crnc over from tho senate. Ihc5
snn,monses were responded to almost
without exception.
DEBATE WAS WARM.
The debate at times waXed warm,
ond disclosed the fact that there We're
snme Republicans. in addition to the
& so.called 5.'insurgents, who were yet
10 be pacified before they would glVe
their votes on the final passage. OIL inc
bill. The Democrats hcld up .iie 'lia.
8 in,ity marty to scorn for having. as
fbev charged. violated its ante-election
hedges. feature OF the discussion
was an appeal by Chairman PAYNE 10
his colleagues to send the conferees %
tho senate unhampered by Instructions
He promised to rigidly exact an eS-.
planation of every amendment rnaae
by the senate. in order. that tle ,'o iii,1
conferees might report back D .,
which would meet the approval OF the.
majority and the country at large,
His appeal. was granted.
At 3:26 p m. adjournment was
taken until Monday. noon. Wnen tn u
Joint resolution providing Tor the, sun w
mission to the several states Or thc
income tax amendment TO the Sotiiss'ti-
tuition will be considered.
When the house met today it's mem.
hers were in possession of CONES OF
the tariff bill as it had been amended
and passed the senate. The members
of the house displayed an eagerness
TO get to work, in the hope ot making
All early disposition of the plli, OF oul
~ mere curiosity. as ono member sug-
rested ito see Just what the senate
had done to it,"
Tho committee on rules met after
the house took a recess OF an hour aiius5
decided TO bring in an order LOT tne
reference of the bill TO g committee on
conference, as requested by the sel'a,e.
the house meantime disasreeins W LIE lo
senate amendments.
When the recess had expired MT
.Dalzell lPennsylvania) of the commit
tee on rules was at once recognized to
offer the rule providing for monsoon,
.currcnce in all the amendemnts anu
agreeing to the conference requested
by the senate. He supplemented the
rule with motion for one hour ana
a half for debate.
This suggestion was not entirely ac-
rcptable to Mr.. Townsend (MtchlganD,s
who wanted the time extended TO three
hours but Mr. DalzelFs motion was
adopted.
was condemned by Mr.. Townsend
lMichigan).
HARDLY RECOGNIZES BILL.
AS it left the house, he said il COM
nled, for the most part, with the ke-
publican pledges, but now. he declared,
you would hardly recognize it II you
met 1t In the road He did not PC
lieyc it was ever intended that the
senate should Introduce brand-new pro-
discussed. Mr.. Townsend created stir
when he declared that in the course
of the debate IN the senate the mousse
and the WAYS and means committee
had been insulted, He insisted tfat
the bill ought to be controlled by the
house. subject to such recommcnda-
tons as the senate rightfuily could
make, and not by conference commit
tee.
The bill, in the opinion OF Mr.. ritz
gerald, was about as bad apiece OF lie e
islation as 1t would be possible to make
in any legislative body. He hoped there
would be aroused Throughout the coun-
try a resentment}su such as}would make u
impossible to put some OF the senate
amendments into effect. The first open
evidence of an intended revolt on the.
Republican side was made manifest
when Mr.. Mann Qllinois) protested We
hemently against the amendments fix
Ing tie duties on wood pulp and print
paper.
There were but two states which
would benefit by such professions de-
clared Mr.. Mann. give notice (
now he exclaimed, amid Democratic
and some Republican applause. that
If these two states write the provision
In the conference report on print paper
and on wood pulp in the interests of
their states and against the interests
of the consumers of paper and the man
ufactlirers of paper in the rest OF the
nation, SO far as am concerned, l
shall swallow my desire to stand with
the organization of The house. my de-
sire to prove that Republicans are able
to write tariff bill, and vote against
the conference report.
In pleading for the opportunity to
vote separately on the various amend
ments. Representative Bartlett 0;eer-
ria. Dcm.) declared the corporation tax
was "a subterfuge. q pretext and a
sham placed in the. bill to defeat the
income tax.
CLARK'S COMMENT.
Great God Almighty, eight hundred
and forty-seven amendments" was the
exclamation OF Mr.. Clark, the minor
lily leader. as he closed the debate on
his side. He proposed the idea of vot-
ing on every amendment without de-
bate. which, he said, would take ohiS
% hnurs.
'ghe bill. Mr. Clark said. when 1T left