The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-09
TARIFF BILL
PASSED THE
UPPER HOUSE
Final Vote As to "a in Favor
of the Finance Committee
Schedules
WILL Be RAPIDLY PUSHED TO
- conference IN The HOUSE

Western Republicans at the Close
US to Which Was the Real Republi.
can Doctrine of Tariff Legislation.
Washington, July 9.-The scene Of
the great battle over the tariff bill
shifts now from the senate to the
house. Bearing 847 amendments,
placed there by the senate. the Payne
tariff bill today found its way back to
the house, exactly three months from
the time it was put through by that
body. Its reception was hailed with
mingled feelings of joy and disap-
pointment by the members on bots
sires, who in response to the summons
from their respective leaders, turned
out in great force.
Chairman Payne of the ways and
means committee, was prepared to
again take charge of the momentous
piece of legislation. 1t was precise
ly 1902 o'clock when Clerk Croc-
kett Of the senate appeared in front
of the speakers rostrum and announc-
ed that the senate had passed the tar
iff bill. He had the bulky document
with him and turned it over to one
of the house officials. Two minutes
later, on motion of Representative
Payne, the house took recess until /
o'clock in order to permit the COM
mittee on rules to meet with a view to
deciding on nthe course of procedure
in reference to the bill being recon-
nlended. The final vote In the sem
ate, passing the bill by vote 45 to
"a, was announced after protracted
debate which was almost devoid Of
animation until within ten minutes be-
fore the closing there arose sharp
controversy over the party standing
OF the insurgent Republican senator's
Several of them hotly resented being
read out of the party" by Senator
Aldrich. He however disclaimed any
such intention.
After explaining the parliamentary
situation affecting the bill, nalzell de-
clared his belief that he voiced the
sentiment of every member of the
house on both sides and of the entire
sitizenship of the country when he
sal dthat what is needed now was a
speedy disposition of the measure.
The method suggested by the COM
mittee on rules, he said, was in ac-
cordance with that idea. While ex-
pressing the view that the members
and the country were anxious to dis
pose of the bill at the earliest posai-
BILE moment, Underwood of Alabama
rontended he did not believe it was
their desire to do this without care
full and fair consideration. One by
one of the various amendments to the
bill as it came from the senate was
commended by Townsend of Michi-
gan. AS it left the house, he said, It
complied for the most part with the
Republican pledge but now, he de-
clared, you would hardly recognize it
If you met it in the road" He did
not believe it was ever intended that
the senate should introduce a brand
new proposition which the house had
never discussed. "It seems to me-"
he exclaimed with eanestnes, I'VE
have reached the point when our re-
spect for this house demands that our
friends shall at least know how we
feel about this" He thought that in
sofar as the house was concerned
there had been undue haste from the
start to the finish.
Mr. Townsend created a stir when
he declared that in the course of the
debates in the senate the ways and
means committee had been insulted.
The first opening evidence of an
intended revolt on the Republican side
was made manifest when Mann of IL
linois protested vehemently against
the amendments fixing the duties on
wood pulp and print paper. There
were but two states which would bene-
fit by such protection, declared Mr..
Mann. II give notice now," he ex-
claimed amid Democratic and some
Republican applause. "that II those
two states write the provision in the
conference report on print paper and
on wood pulp in the interest of the
states and against the interest of the
consumers Of paper and the manufac-
turers of paper in the rest of the ma
tion, So far as am concerned, shall
swallow my desire to stand with the
organization of the house, my desire
to prove that the Republicans are able
to write tariff bill and shall vote
against the conference report"
The ice having thus been broken.
Davidson of Wisconsin and Douglass
of Ohio, two other Republicans, were
II anything, even more outspoken in
opposition than was Mann.
The discussion throughout the even
ing had been chiefly by Senators La
toilette and Gore, both of whom
criticised the bill, but neither of whom
aroused much enthusiasm in the thor
oughly wearied senate, when 1t ap-
peared that a vote could be taken.
Senator Beveridge announced his de-
termination of the so-called progress
siys Republicans to cast their votes