The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-15
VOTING PROGRAMME IS FINALLY AGREED
 UPON IN THE SENATE
Reciprocity Bill Is Given Precedence, July P
 Being Chosen

Washington, July 14.-The Senate will
 vote on the Canadian reciprocity bill
 July 22; on the wool tarifs revision bill
 July 27 on the free list bill August l.
 congressional reapportionment bill August
 Mexico on the legislative day of August T. and will adjourn quickly thereafter. This voting programme, decided npon
 after prolonged conference today, and resulting from conferences that have covered many days, was agreed to by l the Senate.
 | The bill cortaiIed no specific provision for adjournment, but it Is understood generally that adjournment will follow , immediately after the disposition of the
 statehood bill.
 [ All the bills mentioned have passed the
 House. President Taft was quickly ac-
 quainted with the Senate's action and
 expressed his qualification, especially over the precedence to be given the reciprocity bill
 Senator Cummins of Iowa, insurgent,
 after adjournment today expressed con- viction that despite the programme there would be general tariff revision before the close. He based his belief on the
 fact that the democrats and insurgents would stand together and force amend
 ments to the free list bill adding wool, | sugar, steel, cotton, etc.. to that meas ure. At least, we shall have legislative re- vision before we adjourn, he said. T do not know what the President will do,
 but we will give him chance to speak for himself
 No agreement was reached on the cam paign publicity bill. Senator Penrose, republican leader, announced 1t had been found impossible to include In the deh- nite agreement any more subjects than those named. Senator Martin, democrat. assured Senator Kenyon, republican in surgent that the democrats would make every effort to get vote on the pub licity measure, which would require pub licity of campaign funds before cleo tion.
 Direct Election Matter Senator Borah, determined to press the joint resolution providing for the. election of senators by direct vote, will lose no chance to bring about an agreement be- tween the conferees in that measure He so has notified them and they have agreed to have their first meeting within the
 next day or two. He protested in the
 Senate today that Congress apparently
 must settle momentous question before
 it could have an agreement, namely,
 whether the Senate conferees should ap-
 pear at the door of the House, or the
 House conferees at the door of the Sen
 ate, to ask for the final conference. Sen
 ator Reed of Missouri explained that de-
 lay was due to the absence from the city
 of Chairman Fucker of the House con-
 ferees.
 The Bristow amendment to the Canadia m
 reciprocity bill, proposing reduction Of
 the sugar tariff and the aboishment of
 the Dutch, standard basis of assessing
 tariff on imported sugar. was defeated
 this afternoons 3S to &, after Senator Bris-
 tow had made an exhaustive speech on the subject Senator's Bourne. Bfistow
 Brown, Cummins, Clapp, Dixon, Gronna and Nelson voted in support of it.. Senator Cummins introduced additional amendments to the bill, one providing for Q reduction of the duty on steel beamr girders and like products, and the other for a reduction of tEe duty on oil cloth
 and lineoleum.
 Tariff Now Chief Feature With the fate of reciprocity predeier- mined in favor of the measure senators already are specializing on the possible result of the promised votes on the two tariff bills-wool and free dst-included In Itodays agreement No one would under take to predict the outcome, but all agreed on the point that the success or failure of the measures depended entirely upon whether the democrats and insur- gents republicans can get tosether on any line of action. The insurgents have no tiden of accepting the heyge bills and some of the democrats arc<tl sinclined to permit them to dictate the terms of leg islation There have been no formal con ference and already it is apparent that much effort will be necessary to bring about an understanding.
 It has heen intimated that 't should pass 1 and the president veto the wcol and free | list bills, the democrats wouid insist upon continuation of the session for further ...:ff legislation. The republican 'eao- ets fear no such result, however. because lhey say the democratic senators are quite
 as anxious to end the session as are the Republicans.