The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-08-20
PRESIDENT SIGNS REGULAR AND
PHILIPPINES MEASURE At
CAPITOL.
SEVEN INSURGENTS HOLD OUT
MoCumber Fails In Last Stand before
Bill Passes Senate-Taft Explains
Course by Stating Revision Has
Been Downward.

WaShingtOn.-The new ldrlli plli
became a law at five minutes past .
o'clock Thursday afternoon. In the
presence Of distinguished BODY or
public officials. members of senate and
house, cabinet officers and newspaper
men. the president attached his sig
nature to the bill in the small room
adjoining the senate chamber and
then signifed to the waiting commit
tees of the two houses that he had no
further business to ask Of congress.
The bill passed the senate at 2:lO
O'Clock by vote of AZ TO 81. Seven
Republican votes were cast against
it, those of Senators Clapp and Mel
son, of Minnesota; Cummns and Dol
liver, OF Iowa; La Toilette. or WIS
consin; Bristow, Of Kansas, and Bev-
eridge, of Indiana.
Senators Crawford. Of South Dako-
ia, and Brown and Burkett, OF Ne
braska. who had voted against it on
its first passage, voted with the ma
jorty. SO did Senators Gamble, of
South Dakota, and McCumber and
Johnson of North Dakota. who had
voted similarly on the first passage
Of the bill
A final attempt by Senator McCum-
Der to amend the new bill on the lin
seed oil matter, and the mllllng-in-
bond matter, failed because Of Chair
man Payne's opposition in the house.
1t was we'll understood that Senator
McCumber would not succeed in get
ting these changes made, notwith-
standing the willingness. of the senate
to adopt his resolutions.
President Signs Bill.
President Taft arrived at the CAPT
tol at 4 45 p. m. His appearance
there, the first since his incumbency
as president, caused members of con-
gress to desert the two chambers and
form in line to be received by him.
There was a constant procession Of
handshaking statesmen through the
presidents room from the time of his
arrival until his departure at $50
| o'clock.
Just as the hands Of the gold clock
! in the presidents room reached six
| minutes past five the Payne tariff bill,
rs the measure will be known, was
laid before the president. He picked
up pen supplied by Chairman Payne
of the house ways and means com
mittee and which had been used by
| nd hn II
er in signing the bill and attached his
! signature. After writing civilian II
Taft" the president added Signed
five minutes after five o'clock, Aug
5, l9O9-W H. T."
| Immediately after attaching his
name to the general tariff BILL the
president signed the Philippine tariff
measure.
Six o'clock was agreed upon by the
two houses as the time for 6nal ad
journment The usual formality oil
notifying the president was gone
through with. after2 which Speake:
Cannon of the house and Vice Pres
dent Sherman in the senate declared
the respective bodies adjourned with
out day"
President Taft gave out state
ment embodying his views of the new
tariff act, which he 1esienates Off
cially as the Payne bill" in accord
ance with past custom Of giving first
recognition to the framer of the mea
sure in the house of representatives
Il have signed the Piyne tariff be
cause | believe it TO be the result o
sincere effort on the pat OF the Re
publican party to make downward
revision and to comply with the prom
!ses of the platform as they have beer
generally understood, ant interpret
ed them in the campaign before elec
ton.