Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10
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lIRIF| fight
BACK IN HOUSE i:
Promptly Disagreed to Senate
amendments and Conference
Requested Granted.
INSURGENTS IN EVIDENCE.
,,inorlty Leader Clark Said Bill Was
(. Bad When it Left House, AL
drich-smoot Bill Worse.

washington, July 9--The tariff ques-
,,on has been shifted from both
,,onses of Congress to a conference
committee. After one hour and hall
- debate, the house today by a vote
or@17S to 151 made a rule whereby
40 S47 amendments of the senate
,,.ore disagreed to and the conference
reouestcd by the senate granted, Elgh-
teen Republicans voted against the
,n,e and one Democratic for it
when the house met at noon in,
terest was at fever heat. The leaders
m both sides had notified their re-
ercctivc forces to be on hand, in an.
+ic;pation that the tariff bill would.
ccmc over from the senate inc,
snmmonses We're responded to almost
8 without exception.
DEBATE WAS WARM.
The debate at times waxed warm.
and disclosed the fact that there We're
some Republicans. In addition to the
so.called insurgents, who were YET
u be pacified before they would give
their votes on the final passage or the
bill The Democrats held up the MI ~
iorty party to scorn for having, as
ihev charged, violated it's ante-election
hedges. A feature of the discussion
4 WAS an appeal by Chairman PAYNE to
his colleagues to send the confefees 10
# the senate unhampered by lnstruclioniis4
s. He promised to rigidly exact an eX-
I,lanation of every amendment maze
I Nv the senate, in order that the house
cnnferees might report back a Dill
which would meet the approval ol the
majority and the country at large.
His appeal was granted.
At s:26 p. m. adjournment WAS
Z taken until Monday noon. W i .f,e
mission to the several states q tne
income tax amendment to the consul
tuition will be considered.
When the house met today Its mem.
bers We're in possession OF copies OF
the tariff bill as it had been amended
and passed the senate The members
or the house displayed an eagerneSs
to get to work, in the hope of making
MI early disposition of the bili or OUT
o; mere curiosity as one member SUE
sested, "to see just what the senate
had done to 1t"
The committee on rules met allcr
The house took a5recess of an hour ana
decided to bring in an order for the
reference of the bill to a committee on
conference, as requested by the senate
tho house meantime sdisagreelng to the
senate amendments.
When the recess had expired. Mr.
Dalzell (PcnnsylVania) of the commit
lee on rules was at once recognized TO
offer tho rule providing for non-con-
8rurrence in all the nmendemnts and
agreeing to the conference requested
br the senate. He supplemented the
rule with motion for'on hour and
a hair for debate.
This suggestion was not entirely ac-
acptable to Mr.. townsend (Michigan).
who wanted the time extended to three
hours, but Mr. Dalzell's motion was
adopted. s
The bill as 1T came from the senate
was condemned by Mr.. Townsend
5tMichigan).
HARDLY RECOGNIZES BILL.
As ii left the house, he said, it COM
piied, for the most part, with the Re
publican pledges, but now. he declared,
s'vou would hardly recognize it If you i
met it in the road, @ He did not PC
slievc 1t was ever intended that the
senate should introduce brand-new pro-
positions which the house had never
discussed. Mr.. Townsend created stir
when he declared that III the course
of the debate in the senate the house
and the ways and means committee
had been insulted He insisted tnat
the bill ought to be controlled by the
house. subject to such recomnenda-
tons as the senate rightfully could
make. and not by a conference commits
tee
The BILL in the opinion of MIR. Fitz-s
gerald WAS about as bad a piece of leg
islation as it would be possible to make
In any legislative body. He hoped there
would be aroused throughout the coun-
try a resentment such as would makeslt
impossible to put some of the senate
amendments into effect The first open
of nYt inf nIpl revolt tho. |
Republican side was made manifest
when Mr.. Mann Qllinois) protested We
hementy against the amendments FIX
ing the duties on wood pulp and print
paper.
There were but two states which
would benefit by such protection. de-
claretl Mr. Mann II give notice |
now" he exclaimed amid Democratic
and some Republican applause, that
IL 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-
ufacturers 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 a tariff bill, and vote against |
the conference report.
In pleading for the opportunity TO
vote separately on the various amend
ments, Representative Bartlett (Gcor-
gia Demo declared the corporation tax |
was "a subterfuge, a IrcteNt and
SHAM, placed in the bill to defeat the
income tax.
CLARN'S COMMENT.
Great God Almighty, eight hundred
and forty-seven amendments" was the
exclamation of M Clark, the minor
ity leader, as he closed the debate Oh |
his side. He proposed the idea of vot- !
ing on every amendment without de-
bate, which, he said, would take only
26 hours.
Tho DILL MI. Clark said, when it left |
the house was bad; the Aldrich-Snoot !
bill rs worse, and. judging the future
by the past, thc result of the lahors of I
the conference committee will be worse
than ALL"
Mr.. Payne. In closing for his Side,
pleaded with his colleagues to send the
conferees to the senate unhampered by.
any vote of instructions. MI. Payne
discussed the Democratic contention |
for separate votes, and astonishel his
hearers when he asserted that he was
unable to tell whether some OF the
raised sor lowered the
Dlngley rates.
Wouldn't it be all right for you to
give yourself the bcreft5of the doubt
and vote against those you don't un-
derstand 2" interpreted Mr. Clark, amid
f 81 snrnnoea ,.oS,,npded tho ma inrit " Il