The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-02-10
RECIPROCITY
FAVORABLE ACTION IN HOUSE
ASSURED BY PLEDGES
III CAUCUS.
MAKERS OBJECT
Bill Establishing Punishment for Spies
Passes House-Homestead Meas
ure is Ready for
Taft.

Washington. =. c. Favorable ac
ton of the house on the Canadian ~eci-
procity agreement was assured when
the caucus OF Democratic Representa-
tiyes formally pledged the party TO
vote for the agreement The Iesolu-
ton indOrsing the Canadian agreement
was carried 90 70 - on motion OF
Mr.. Clark Of Missouri. rhy action OF
the caucus was made unanimous.
Anti reciprocity Democrats were Civ
en- free reins at the caucus Of the house
Democrats at the capitol. Most OF
those opposed 10 the Canadian agree
ment submitted BY President Taft eX-
pressed their views and a number
dwe,' on The fact that the bill jncOr-
porat!ng the agreement should not pass
without amendment. Amendments. of
course, would in~vslidate the ~nJire
agreement.
COn~spicuOusly hung in the ,Obby
back Of the house was A plaCard bear
ing a quotation from a speech by Min.
GRITTY Leader Clark. on June : las. the
plaCard having been placed there by
a Republican TO call attention to Mr..
Clark's opposition to any amendment
OF the reciprocity bill. The placard
read:
Il do not know how long We shall
be here, but as long as | am here I
intend TO fight for the right TO amend
every section of every great bill which
zones into this house and | do not care
a straw whether the Democrats control
the house or the Republicans
More than 100 attended the caucus.
Champ Clark, of Missouri. the minority
leader, and Mr.. Underwood, of Ala
bama, who will be chairman of the
ways and means committee of the next
congress, and who will begin work on
schedule by schedule revision of the
tariff as 500 as this congress adjourns,
the movement to indorse the recipro-
city agreement, both Of them declaring
for il unequivocally.
Messrs. Hammond of Minnesota,
Brantley of Georgia, Webb of North
Carolina, Leagre of South Carolina
and others spoke ia opposition. Mr..
Brantley urged postponing all such leg
islation until the next congress rather
than put on the statute books a meas,
ure that will be used by the Republic.
cans as campaign material. Mr..
Brantley objected also on the broad
ground of the disadvantage that such
legislation would impose upon the
raw materials of the producer and he
expressed the belief that there is no
occasion to rush through any such
plans, because of the painstaking work
that soon will be undertaken by a
tariff making body of a Democratic
congress.
The reciprocity agreement was I'M.
bodied in the Mccall bill, which was
the measure directly before the eau
nj To this bill Mr.. Brantley offer
ed ar amendment to refer the whole
matter TO the ways and means com.
mittee for action at the next con-
gress, but this was defeated. 81 to SO.
The 20 who voted against the .reso-
luton, 1t was explained later, were
those who had voted for free lumber,
ETC., and their action in caucus was to
make their position consistent. 1t
was stated that they would vote with
the party.
Manufacturers of print paper faced
q fire of questions when they appeared
before the ways and means COMMITTEES
of the house to argue in favor Of the
retention of the present duty imposed
upon their product by the Payne-Ald.
rich tariff act rather than the reduc.
ton that ia contemplated in the pro-
posed reciprocity agreement with
Canada.
Spy Bill 10 Passed.
The house passed the so-called spy
bill Introduced by Representative
Hobson of Alabama. This bill makes
It unlawful for any person to make
photographs or drawings on board
b~attleships or on navy yards or forts
without proper authority. For such
offense the penalty is a fine not to ex.
coed $1,000 or II year in prison. II
the person attempts to sell the infor.
nation to a foreign government, the
penalty is fixed at 10 years in prison.
Mr.. Hobson explained that the bill
would not prohibit tourists from TAX.
ing harmless snap shots.
Payne and DaIzeli III.
Representatives Payne of New York
chairman of the house committee on
ways and means. and Dalzell OF Penn.
sylyania. second member OF that
committee. az well as chairman Of
the rules committee. are III In bed
with la grippe. In their absence Mr..
Mccall of Massachusetts conducted
the hearing OF the ways and means
committee on the Canadian recipro
city agreement.