The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-24

President Congratulated for Veto
ing Wooden Bill and Farmers Free
List Bill.
Special to The Caucasian.)
Washington, D. c., Aug. %, 1911.
The extraordinary session OF the
Sixty-second Congress came TO an end !
this afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
The reciprocity bill, campaign pub
licity bill and the re-apportionment
bill and the admission Of Arizona and
New Mexico as new States, were the
only measures Of importance that
were finally enacted into law. The
President vetoed the wooden bill, far
mers' free list bill, and the cotton
schedule.
President Taft, who had just We
toed the cotton bill, the last of three
revision bills, adversely acted on. was
present with members of his Cabinet
when the special session came to
close.
The efforts on the part Of the DEM
ocrats and insurgent Republicans to
put the President ''in hole" ended
in a miserable fiasco.
President Accomplished What He Set
Out to Do.
An analysis of the work done
shows that he achieved practically
everything of Importance which he
set out to do. The results he at
tanned are positive, and ought to last.
While the Senate refused to ratify
his arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France, he really did not
anticipate immediate favorable ac-
ton. but now will appeal to the
country to sustain him and to bring
the Senate into frame Of mind
where these pacts can be approved
without serious emasculation.
Democratic Bluff Game.
It is no secret that many Demo
Gratis are just as we'll satisfied thai
the President rendered abortive the
work of the "unholy alliance" be
cause, after all. they are franz
enough to admit, though, they ar'
} not proclaiming it publicly, tina
-. there was merit in the reasons citet
bv the President in his veto mes
sages.
Williams Gets Cold Feet.
4 John Sharp Williams, one of tn
t Democratic leaders in the Senate go
e cold feet and was forced to oppos
d some of the amendments offered b.
8 his party members. When tn
l. House bill re-drafting the cotto
schedule, was under consideration
e and amendments were being offered
is Senator Williams said:
y s'Mr. President, think we are o
5 the eve of doing some very danger
d Gus things without due consideration
10 I do not believe that any one ma
is can give due consideration to an
Ig great schedule of the tariff bill, u
)f matter how able he is. I have ha
some experience serving upon con
re mittees dealing with tariff question
he and have, for the most part, foun
I'd that my own opinion became mod
ID fed very much by the informatie
RS and suggestions I obtained from
r or IA other men serving upon cor
ge mittees.
y. Amendments ubiquitous"
id
he Speaking for myself, therefore,
ar am not willing to be put on reco
of as indorsing amendments containfl
as page after page of tariff schedule
when 1 know that they neither ha
in been considered at the other end
,ss the Capitol nor can be considered
is the time the amendment reach
,x- there. The rubber schedule is We
,th iniduitous in many regards. [
sugar schedule, especially that p;
of it which deals with differentia
is very obnoxious to me. But for n
self. I shall not vote to put UP
this bill anything except things tt
have been considered in some co
mittee somewhere, especially at
other end of the Capitol, or ST
iIthings as we know would be cons
cred by the time the amendm'
dealing with the subject reaches
II House.
eOf course, when a man here
fers to put coal on the free list, t
requires no committee considerati
know what it is; everybody can
derstand 1t; it is simple plain pr
osition, and it requires no investi
ton of schedules or comparison
schedules or any nice distinction