Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-12
Senate Passes Conference Report by Vote
of AZ to 81 and Then Adopts Reso-
luton Correcting The Joker"
THE HOUSE QUICKLY APPROVES THE ENACTMENT
Measure Then Went to the President and the Battle Over Re-
vision, Which Has Been On for More Than Four
Months, Is observation-disclosures
Are Voted Down.

House to notify the president of their
decision.
Both Houses Adopt "Jcker" Schedule.
The concurrent resolution making
reductions in the leather schedules
then was taken up by the senate and
adopted unanimously. The resolu-
ton was then sent to the house.
Almost every member of the lower
body was in his seat and the debate
was short. The resolution received
an almost unanimous viye voce vote
and Immediately was sent to President
Taft for his signature.
The house showed the clock ahead
and adjourned sine die at 5:38.
Cannon Reduces Insurgent Chairman.
Speaker Cannon announced the
membership of the committee for the
Sixty-first Congress. In the changes
Of chairman two insurgents were re-
duced in rank. Cooper, Wisconsin, is
succeeded by Olmsted of Pennsylvania
as chairman of insular affairs. Gard
! ner of Massachusetts,, who is chair
man of industrials, arts and exposi-
lions, is succeeded by Rodenberg of
Illinois.
The house referred the McCumber
joint resolution, amending the draw
back provision of the tariff bill to the
committee on ways and means, where
it will sleep until next winter.
I w.. f.l.aA ~ -
Bailey Says Law Robs Consumers.
Senator Bailey Of Texas made the
final speech on the tariff bill on be-
half of the Democrats. He ascribed
the defeats of the Democracy in 1894
and 1896 to misrepresentation of the
Wilson tariff bill.
He declared Aldrich would not deny
the average rates Of the pending bill
were higher than those of the Dingley
law. Aldrich did deny it, whereupon
Bailey said there was not time to
argue out the contradiction, but he
would reiterate that the average
duties were higher in the Payne
Aldrich bill than in the Dingley law.
In closing Bailey advised the Repub-
licans to suggest to the beneficiaries
of the law to revel in its benefits
while they could. For" he said, 1T
Is the last license the American con
gress will ever extend to them to rob
the American consumers
BY this time, with the clock point
ing 10. minutes to the time set for the
taking of the vote, the galleries were
crowded.
, A majority of the spectators were
I, women. Every senator able to be ir
, town was in his seat. Back to the
: hall representatives and clerks stood
in rows four deep.
Conferees Reduced ITO Articles.
: 1t vas in this impressive setting
J, that Senator Aldrich arose in his sea
to make the last argument in favor O.
the bill which will bear his name, to
gether with that of Chairman Payn'
J, OF the house ways and means com
mittee. He declared the measure wa
:, the most important act that had eve
been passed by the American cor
gress.
He regretted the bill would not re
ceive the unanimous approval OF tn
l. Republicans. He challenged any sena
tor to point, out anything in the sched
ules subject to a protective duty upol
which any monopoly had been o
l. could be established. He submitted
y statement showing that the serlt
Il conferees had reduced senate rates O
f. ITO articles.
Q Aldrich concluded by saying Their
had never been a bill SO certain t
a produce prosperity.
Sherman Orders Vote Called.
Immediately after the Rhode Islam
e. senator sat down Vice President She
,r man put the question on the adoptio
s. Of the conference report and ordere
Is the vote to be called. The vote wa
O. At to 81.
Then the senate took up considers
Or ton of the concurrent resolutio
q changing the rates on boots, shoes an
leather, Immediately after the tart
6 bill vote. Senator Culberson Of Texs
ID offered an amendment to place cotto
bagging on the free list, It has bee
to made free in the senate bill. he sal
Judne Rethea Buried.