Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-07-28
RECIPROCITY BILL FINALLY PASSED

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the senate without amendment by a
vote of So to 81. With the signature
of the president, the agreement will
become law and the legislation for
which the extra session of congress
was convened, will be completed.
1t was just 1856 p. m. when the bill
passed the senate. The final vote
came at the close of a lively session
begun shortly after IL a. m. There
were numerous roll calls on the vari-
GUS amendments, but no attempt at
any time to delay final action. The
senate chamber was we'll filled, many
members of the house having gathered
in the rear of the hall. The galleries
were crowded.
All Amendments Defeated.
The senate took up the Canadian
reciprocity as soon as a quorum was
obtained at Ills a. M, the call show
ing seventy-eight senators present.
The amendment of Senator McCumber
of North Dakota, reducing duties on
many necessaries of life and increas-
ing the free list, was first taken up
and defeated 16 to Ga.
The Nelson amendment restoring
half of the duty on grains and farm
produce made free in the reciprocity
bill was then defeated, % to So.
An amendment by Senator Simmons
of North Carolina putting fresh meats
and meat products on the free list in
the reciprocity bill was defeated 16
to g.
Senator Simmons then offered his
amendment to put flour and cereal
products on the reciprocity free list
and it was defeated II to 60.
The Cummins amendments then
were taken up. The first, reducing the
duty on various steel products, was
defeated II to 81. That reducing the
duty On oil cloth and linoleum was de-
feated by viva voce vote.
Senator La Toilette then called up
his amendment comprising a general
revision of the wooden tariff. 1t also
was defeated by 16 to Ga.
Votes La Toilette Drew.
Republicans voting for the La Fol
| lette amendment were:
Borah, Idaho; Bourne, Oregon; Bris-
| tow, Kansas; Brown, Nebraska; Clapp,
Mimi; Crawford. South Dakota; Cum
minis, Iowa; Dixon, Montana; Gronna,
North Dakota; Kenyon, Iowa; La Fol
lette, Wisconsin,; McCumber, North
Dakota; Nelson, Minnesota.
This same group of republicans
stood together on nearly all of the
amendments proposed by the progress
sives.
La Follette's amendment for the re-
duction of duties on cotton goods was
defeated on the seventh roll call, Is
to IS.
Another La Toilette amendment for
free wood pulp and print paper, effec-
tive January, 1912, was defeated, II
to 81.
An amendment by Bailey democrat,
Tex, to place on the free list agricul-
tural implements, shoes and other
leather goods, cotton bagging and ties,
wire suitable for fencing, sewing ma
chimes, lumber, rough or dressed and
salt, was defeated on the ninth roll
amendment by McCumber putting har-
ness and saddlery ON the free list, was
defeated Is to Ga.
An = amendment to require articles
now in bond to pay present rates of
duty, even if they are included in the
free list, proposed by McCumber, was
voted down, 81 to "a.
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duty of IL cents a pound on the
lead in type metal and Is per cent ad
valorem on new types went out on
the twelfth roll call, 16 to 81.
Bailey's amendment to place cotton
bagging and ties on the free list was
defeated II to g..
The passage of the bill by the SEN
ate in precisely the form it emerged
from the house will bring to an end
President Taft's long fight for the
measure, but during the debate which
led up to today's final action party
lines were swept away and vigorous
fight was waged to saddle the meas
ure with riders that friends of the
measure claimed would have meant
the defeat of the whole proposition.
How Senators Voted.
Three democrats and twenty-four
republicans voted against the bill,
which passed the senate, SO to 27.
The roll call was as follows:
Republicans voting for: Bradley,
Ky; Brandege, Conn; Briggs, N. j.;
Brown, Neb.; Burton, Ohio; Crane,
Mass; Cullom, ILL.,; Guggenheim, Col;
Jones, Wash; Lodge, Mass; Mclean,
Conn; Nixon, New; Penrose, Pa;
Perkins, Cal; Poindexter, Wash;
Richardson, Del; Root, N. Y; Stephen
son, Wis; Townsend, Mich; Wetmore,
r. l.; Works, Cal.
Democrats opposing: Bailey, Tex;
Clarke, Ark; Simmons, N. G.
Republicans opposing: Borah, Ida
| no; Bourne, Ore; Bristow, Kan;
Burnham, N. H.; Clapp, Mimi; Clark,
Wyo.; Crawford, S. D.; Cummins, Ia;
Curtis, Kan; Dixon, Mont; Gamble,
| S. D.; Gronna, N. D.; Hepburn, Idaho;
Kenyon, Iowa; La Toilette, Wis; Lip
nett r r.: IOrimer Ill: McCumber