Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-08-11
TARIFF BILL IS Law
PRESIDENT SIGNS REGULAR AND
PHILIPPINES MEASURE At
CAPITOL.
SEVEN INSURGENTS HOLD OUT
Mccumber Fails In Last Stand Before
Bill Passes Senate-Taft Explains
Course by Stating Revision Has
Been Downward.

Washington.-The new tariff bill
became law at five minutes past
O'Clock Thursday afternoon. In the
presence of a distinguished body of
public officials, members Of senate and
house. cabinet officers and newspaper
men. the president attached his sig
nature to the bill in the small room
adjoining the senate chamber and
then signified to the waiting commit
tees Of the two houses that he had no
further business to ask of congress.
The bill passed the senate at 2:l0
o'clock by vote of Al to 81. Seven
Republican votes were cast against
1t, those of Senators Clapp and Mel
son. of Minnesota; Cummins and Dol
liver, of Iowa: La Toilette. Of Wis
consfn; Bristow, of Kansas, and Bev.
eridge, of Indiana.
Senators Crawford, of South Dako.
ia. and Brown and Burkett, of Ne.
braska. who had voted against it on
Its first passage, voted with the ma
jortty. So did Senators Gamble, of
South Dakota. and McCumber and
Johnson of North Dakota, who had
voted similarly on the first passage
OF the bill.
A final attempt by Senator McCum.
Der to amend the new bill on the lin
seed oil matter, and the milling-in.
bond matter, failed because of Chair.
po in, h1
1t was we'll understood that Senator
McCumber would not succeed in get.
ting these changes made, notwith-
standing the willingness of the senate
to adopt his resolutions.
President Signs Bill.
President Taft arrived at the capt.
toll at 4:45 p. m. His appearance
there, the first since his incumbency
as president. caused members of con-
gress to desert the two chambers and
form in line to be received by him.
There was a constant procession Of
handshaking statesmen through the
presidents room from the time of his
arrival until his departure at $50
o'clock.
Just as the hands of the gold clock
in the presidents room reached six
minutes past five the Payne tariff bill,
as the measure will be known, was
laid before the president. He picked
up a pen supplied by Chairman Payne
of the house ways and means com.
mittee and which had been used by
both the vice president and the speak
err in signing the bill and attached his
signature. After writing civilian H.
Taft" the president added Signed
five minutes after five o'clock, Aug.
5, 1909-W H. T."
Immediately after attaching his
name to the general tariff bill, the
president signed the Philippine tariff
measure.
Six o'clock was agreed upon by the
two hoi,ses as the time for final ad-
journment. The usual Formally of
notifying the president was gone
through with, after2 which Speaker
Cannon of the house and Vice Presi-
dent Sherman in the senate declared
the respective bodies adjourned with
out day."
Taft Defends Himself.
President Taft gave out state.
ment embodying his views of the new
tariff act, which he designates Off.
cially as the Payne BILL" in accord.
ance with past custom o: giving first
recognition to the Trainer of the mea.
sure in the house of representatives.
II have signed the Payne tariff be-
cause believe it to be the result of
sincere effort on the part of the Re-
publican party ts make downward
revision and to comply with the prom
ises of the platform as they have been
generally understood, and I interpret
ed them in the campaign before elec-
ton.