The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-08-13
Senate Passes Conference Report by Vote
of AZ o 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 "Joker" 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 vive voce vote
and Immediately was sent to President
Taft for his signature.
The house showed the clock ahead
and adjourned sine die at 5:3S.
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-
tions, 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.
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 it's benefits
while they could. For" he said, at
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
women. Every senator able to be in
town was in his seat. Back to the
hall representatives and clerks stood
in rows four deep.
Conferees Reduced 40 Articles.
1t was in this impressive setting
that Senator Aldrich arose in his seat
to make the last argument in favor of
the bill which will bear his name, to-
gether with that of Chairman Payne
Of the house ways and means COM
mittee. He declared the measure was
the most important act that had aver
been passed by the American con-
! gress.
He regretted the bill would not re-
ceive the unanimous approval of the
Republicans. He challenged any sena-
tor to point out anything in the sched-
ules subject to a protective duty upon
which any monopoly had been or
could be established. He submitted q
statement showing that the senare
conferees had reduced senate rates on
10 articles.
Aldrich concluded by saying there
had never been a bill SO certain to
produce prosperity.
Sherman Orders Vote Called.
Immediately after the Rhode Island
senator sat down Vice President Sher-
man put the question on the adoption
of the conference report and ordered
the vote to be called. The vote was
AZ to 81.
Then the senate took up considera-
ton of the concurrent resolution
changing the rates on boots, shoes and
leather, Immediately after the tariff
bill vote. Senator Culberson of Texas
offered an amendment to place cotton
bagging on the free list. 1t has been
made free in the senate bill, he said.