The Washington herald., 1909-04-06

/ The Republican organization o. the
House Of Representatives put throuzh a
special cIotuTe rule yesterday. unds-
which the House VIII vote finally on the
pending tartG bnI az O'Clock next Fri-
day afternoon
II was only after much counting Of
noses and making some promises 70 IN
rsly Republicans that the leaders OF The
organization fes confident enough 10
bring II the rule. Sunday night they had
expected 20 have the rule ready 70 report
% the House by noon yesterday. bit Il
was 2-S0 O'Clock in the afternoon Be-
fore they were able to eazry oct their
desire
As things turned ont, ne rule va.
adopted BY q safe vote. although the
Republican majority dwindIed consider
ably n the vote on the rule There were
really two votes. both on roll calls. In
the first, which was on a demand for the
previous question on the adoption % the
rule. the ayes were Iss and the noes .1zo
a majority OF sixteen. as against the
regular Republican majority OF forty
seven The fnaI vote was on the adop-
tion OF the rule itself. and the result VAS
Ayes. 1s4; noes. Us. showing a loss OF two
votes on each side OF the question.
On The vote on the demand for rba
previous question. twenty-one Reoubl-
cans voted IN The negative with trA
Democrats. I've Democrats voted in tae
affirmative with the Republicans, ard
one Republican voted a nonconmitraI
present"
General Debate Cut on.
The SPECIAL ruis provides thar general
r dehate ca the tari1 Efu shouls ens -
! once bUt thar commirtee anendms7-s
should be in order az any time uo ID
Friday a. 3 O'Clock, when the bill should
Be placed upon It's passage. Il was pro
vided also that the House should vote on
: certain amendments specified n the rule.
but that al other amendments should bs
voted on n bulk
IN the vote on the demand for ths
previous question On the adoption OF the
rule, which was The real test OF sea.i-
3 ment in the House. these Republicans Iefr
the party camp and voted In the mesa
tive WIKI the Democrats. Austin O.
Tennessee; kapp. HaEge1. Cary. Cooper.
| lenrOOl. Morse. and Nelson. OF Wiscon-
SIN. Dawson. Good Hubbard, Kendall
. Pickett, and Woods. Of Iowa. Lindbsrgh-
% Minnesota; Hlnshsw and Norris. OF
Nebraska; MurdOck. Of Kansas: Parsons.
Of New York: Poindexte-. Of Washington.
p and Wilson. Of Illinois Total q
, Thaea Tln---o-ro~e v-0faT -.-s~t-
publicans-B Broussard. Estspinal. Pujo.
! Wicklihe. OF louisiana and Ri0rdan. O.
New York
Andrus. OF New York. Republican.
voted present
Fitzgerald Votes with Party.
Fitzgerald. of New York. Who has
shown an independent attitude and re-
fused on several occasions 70 follow
Champ Clark. OF Missouri. the chosen
leader OF the Democrats. voted with his
oVn party. So did Clark. Of Florida.
who. shortly before the rule was brought
n. had made a red-hot speech n de-
nunciation OF William Jennings Bryan
and appeared 10 be preparing 10 jump
over into the Republican camp
While FIVE Democrats did vote with the
lRepubIicans. the organization leaders said
that they could have had AZ least double
that number OF Democratic votes II ths
necessity had appeared
b To dsplete rhe ranks OF the Republican
J insurgents. some OF whom wanted lower
! rates Of duty on certain articles than the
- PAYNE bin provided others OF whom
. waoted higher rates. and others OF whom
} did not want any amendments al al. the
: Republican leaders had 10 promise thar
The rule would provide for voting on GER
tain schedules in which most OF the IL
So me ---- i-t-7ted
he .-.e shows the leaders
were compel % 10 provide fer a vote on
Z oil hides. barley. lumber. and certain
other provisions OF the bill L looked for
I a time early in the day as Il the leaders
, would find Il necessary 20 abandon the
. iplan TO pass al yesterdays session q rule
fixing a date for the passage OF the bill
lThe high tariff insurgent held a meeting
T. al 2 O'Clock yesterday morning. and they
b insisted that protective rates would have
e 10 be imposed on lumber and coal before
d thev would Weld acQUissCenCe 70 Chs
8 adoption OF cloture rule They were
: finally convinced that while the situation
J. IN The House rendered Il tnexpedient 20
s make any concessions as TO these tWO
schedules of the measure, coal and lgra-
her would be properly protected IN the
Commlttee on Finance. This satisfied the
= high tariE insurgents and they agreed
r 70 support the rule
ol No Vote on Hosiery and Gloves.
e There was. and IS. a lot OF dissatlsfae-
S ton among Republicans in the House
Z over the schedule increasing the rates of
= duty on gloves. hosiery, and millinery.
shortly before the rule was reported 4
provision was inserted in II authorizing
separate vote on the schedule bearing
D on gloves. hosiery. and millinery. After
Q Il became certain that the high tariff
e insurgents had been won over to the
; rule. the leaders decided 70 strike out the
: proviso permitting a vote On gloves
ihosiery. and millinery
The cloturs rule was reported 70 tia
House By Representative Dalzei. ranking
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