The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-12
Senate Passes Conference Report by Vote of 47 to 31 and Then Adopts Reso-
 lution Correcting The Joker
THE HOUSE QUICKLY APPROVES THE ENACTMENT
Measure Then Went the President and the Battle Over Re- vision, Which Has Been On for More Than Four Months, Is Ended-Amendments
 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- | tion 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 yive 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-frst Congress. In the changes of chairman two insurgents were re- dueed in rank Cooper, Wisconsin, is succeeded by Olmsted of Pennsylvania as chairman of insular affairs. Gard i her 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 misrepresentations 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 beneiciaries of the law to revel in its benefits 1 is the last license the American con- gress will ever extend to them to rob the American consumers" 1 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 110 Articles. It 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 ever been passed by the American con- !, gross.
 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 a l statement showing that the senate conferees had reduced senate rates on no articles.
 Aldrich concluded by saying there had never been 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 AT to 31.
 Then the senate took up considera- tion 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. It has been made free in the senate bill, he said,