The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-10
TARIFF FIGHT NOW
IS IN COMMITTEE
House Disagrees to Senate's Big
Bunch of Amendments, and
Grants Conference.
FEELING OF C0NGRESSMEN
APPEARS AT FEVER HEAT
Dissatisfaction Expressed Even
by Republicans Who Are Not
Linked With Insurgents.

Linked With Insurgents.
WASHINGTON, July o.-The tariff
question has been shifted from both
houses of congress to a conference com,
mittee. After one hour and half OF
debate, the house today by vote Of lis
to 151 made a rule whereby the Sii
amendments Of the senate were dis.
agreed to and the conference requested
by the senate granted. Eighteen Re-
publlcans voted against the rule and
one Democrat for it
When the house met at noon interest
was at fever heat. The leaders on both
sides had notified their respective forces
to be on hand, in anticipation that the
tariff bill would come over from the
senate. The summonses were responded
to almost without exception.
The debate at times waxed warm,
and disclosed the fact that there were
some Republicans, in addition to the
so-called 50 Insurgents. who were yet
to be pacifed before they would give
their votes on the final passage of the
| bill The Democrats held mp the ma
lority party TO scorn for having. as
they charged, violated its aute.election
| pledges. y feature of the discussion
was an appeal by Chairman Pavne TO
his colleagues 10 send the conferees TO
the senate unhampered by instructions.
| He promised TO rigidly exact an ex-
planatiou of every amendment made by
| the senate, in order that the house con
ferees might report back bill which
would meet the approval of the ma
lorIty and of the country at large. His
appeal was granted.
AT 1926 p, M. adjournment was taken
until Monday noon, when the Joint reso-
luton providing for the submission 10
the several states Of the income tax
amendment 10 the constitution will be
! considered.
House Roasts Senate.
When the house met today its NOM
! bers were IN possession Of copies Of the
tariff bill as it had been amended aud
passed the senate. The members Of
The house displayed an eagerness to get
10 work, in the hope OF making an
carly disposition of the BILL or out Of
mere curiosity, as one member suggest
ed, ''to see just what the senate had
done to IT, -
The committee on rules met after
the house took recess of an hour and
decided to bring in an order for the
reference of the bill TO committee ou
conference, as requested by the senate,
| the mouse meantime ulsdpreelHS 10 tHS
senate amendments.
When the recess had expired Mr..
! Dalzell (Pennsylvania) of the commit
tee on rules was 1T once recognized tG
offer the rule providing for non-concur'
renee in all the amendments and agree
! ing to the conference requested by the
senate. He supplemented the rule with
a motion for one hour and half for
debate.
This suggestion was not entirely ac-
ceptable to Mr.. Townsend (Michigan),
who wanted the time extended TO three
hours, but Mr Dalzell's motion was
adopted.
senate's Work Condemned.
! The bill as it came from the senate
was condemned by Mr.. Townsend
(Michiganl.
AS it left the house, he said, it com
piled. for the most part, with the Rc'
"you would hardly recognize 1t II YOU
met it in the road He did not be-
lieve it was ever intended that the
senate should introduce brand-new
propositions which the house had never
discussed Mr.. Townsend created a stir
when he declared that in the course
of the debate in the senate senate
means committee had been insult
ed. lie insisted that the bill ought
10 he controlled by the house, subject
to such recommendations as the senate
rightfullv could make, and not by
conference committee.
The bill in the opinion of Mr.. fltz
gerald. was about as bad n piece of leg
islatiou as it would be possible TO mako
in any legislative body. lie hoped there
would he aroused throughout the coun-
trv n resentment such as would make 1T
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.. Manu- Qllinois) protested
yehemently against the amendments
fixing the duties on wood pulp and
print paper
Both Sides Applaud.
There were but two states which
would benefit by such a protection, de-
clarcd Mr.. Mann. 81 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 or
their states and against the interests
of the consumers OF paper and inc
manufacturers of paper IN the rest OF
the nation. so far as ! am concerned'
shall swallow my desire to stand WIN
the organization of the house, my de-
sire to prove that Republicans are able
to write tariff bill, and vote against
the conference report.
.'Pretext and Sham
In pleading for the opportunity &c
vote separately on the various amend'
ments, Representative Bartlett (Geor-
gia, Dem) declared the corporation tax
was ga subterfuge, preteSt and
sham placed in the bill to defeat the
income tax. -,
"Great God Almighty, eight hundred
md forty.seven amendments was the
exclamation Of Mr.. Clark, the minority
leader. as he closed the debate on his
side. He proposed the idea of voting
on every amendment without denate'
which, he said, would take only twenty
six hours. .. ,..
The bill, Mr.. Clark said, when 1t left