Evening star., 1909-07-07
MAY PASS BILL TODAY
Senate Making Rapid Prog
resS With the Tariff.
FEW ROLL CALLS ASKED
Seventy Amendments Reserved for
Separate Votes.
HOUSE MEMBERS SUMMONED
Desired to Be in Their Seats Tomor-
row to Receive Measure if It Is
Ready for Their Action.

Without wasting any time the Senate
this morning got down to the business
Of voting in the open Senate upon the
amendments made to the new Tariff bill
in committee OF the whole. Without a
roll call all of these amendments were
adopted in bulk except about seventy
that were especially reserved for separ-
ate votes at the request of various sena-
tors.
The work of disposing finally of these
reserved paragraphs was then begun i'm
mediately following a short speech by
Senator Newlands of Nevada, criticising
in a general way the method by which
Congress is making the new bill An alb
stract of his remarks will be found in
another column.
Speculation as to Passage.
No disposition to discuss at any length
the reserved paragraphs was shown dur
ing the early hours of the session and
ii was freely predicted by many senator's
this afternoon that the close of the day
would see the bill passed by the Senate.
1t is not unlikely. however. that the last
lap in the long tariff debate in the upper
branch of Congress will extend until to-
morrow
That il will he all over and the bill
ready for the conferees before the end of
the week seems to be a certainty.
Some of the important subjects that are
being voted on again in the open Senate
are the corporation tax amendment. to
which Senator Bailey of Texas and other
senators have amendments to offer: the
general income tax, which Senator Cum
minis of Iowa will present as new propo-
sition: the sugar schedule. in which Sen
ators Bristow of Kansas and Clay of
Georgia are interested: the various ad-
rniniStration features of the bill, which
have aroused the opposition of q. number
of senators on both sides of the cham
ber: the steel and iron schedule; the
Philippine Island provisi1l. and the glass,
earthenware, zinc, wool and paper sched-
ules.
Under previous agreement the conf
mittee substitute for the Beveridge in
ternal revenue tax on tobacco will also
be voted upon in the open Senate.
The House to Be Ready.
General calls have been sent out by the
republican and democratic leaders of the
House for all members to be in their
seats at noon tomorrow. This has been
done i'm order that the House may be
ready to receive the bill from the Senate,
if it should pass that body today.
Steps will probably be taken by the re-
bate. The method of procedure will be
for the House to vote to disagree to the
amendments made by the Senate and ask
for conference with the Senate upon the
disa greeing votes of the two houses.
This action will then be reported to
the Senate and that body will agree to
the conference and appoint conferees to
meet the conferees on the part of the
House.
Progress With Reserved Amend
ments.
The progress made in disposing of
the reserved amendments was so rapid
that by / o'clock pm. more than half
of them had been adopted as reported
by the committee. Up to that time but
two roll calls were demanded. The
Bristow amendment to restore the Ding
ley rates on writing paper was lost.
81 to 80. and the Bacon amendment for
free farming machinery and implements
was lost. IS TO 80. Amendments by
Senator Stone for free hides and leather,
by Senator Cummins TO prevent central
izing of power in the president of the
board of general appraisers, by Senator
Mcl.aurin to pat hard and fancy woods
on the dutiable list and a number of
other minor proposals, were voted down
viva Voce.
Denounced by Dolliver.
The smooth sailing was interrupted
when the section establishing a customs
court of appeals was reached. Senator
Cummins moved to strike out the entire
provision on the ground that it was a
specialized court that was entirely un-
necessary and would tend to give the
importers with claims against the gov
ernment no chance 70 win their suits
The circuit courts were able to handle
these cases in the future. he said, as
they have done in the past.
The new court was also vigorously at.
lacked by Senators Borah. Dolliver anC
Ciapp. Mr.. Dolliyer said the amend
meat appropriated nearly as much money
as II costs TO run the United States Su.
prcme Court. He called that an out.
rage against the American people