The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-08-25
EFFORT TO PASS WOOL BILL
OVER PRESIDENTS VETO FAILS

Washington, Aug 19.-In Z sue
cession Of dramatic events. the Dem
ocratic house of representatives met
defeat yesterday in its supreme eff
fort to pass the wool bill and free
list bills over the presidents veto
and virtually fixed upon adjournment
Of congress early next week.
The house will agree on Monday
to the cotton tariff revision bill, as
amended in the senate, but viii not
hold congress in session to await the
certain veto of that measure. The
senate cleared away all its business
and adjournment is assured In both
houses by next Wednesday at the
latest.
II believe he continued, that
your efforts to revise the tariff have
cost the people more money that
would have been saved in a decade -
Speaker Clark was cheered from
both sides of the house when he left
the chair and took the floor to end
the discussion. The climax Of his
address was reached when he said:
"The president has right to veto
the bill if he wishes. I am not quar-
reling with him. l am lamenting his
lack of wisdom as his personal
friend He has raised an issue that
will rage with undated fury until
the close of the polls in November,
1912"
This was the signal for such an
outburst as seldom has been known
in congress. Again and again as he
continued the Democrats applauded,
cheered and ponded their desks, un-
| til Democratic Leader Underwood,
who occupied the chair, almost des-
paired of maintaining order.
Continuing Speaker Clark said:
"Mr. Underwood and myself never
advocated this tariff board. We
never voted for it. will tell you
what we did advocate and what we
did vote for, and that was to make
that board responsible to the house
of representatives in general and to
the ways and means committee in
particular.
II am not going to say anything
derogatory of this tariff board, but
am going to say what I think
that any member of the ways and
means committee knows more about
the tariff than that entire tariff
board rolled together.
"The president made speech at
Winona The only part of that
speech that was any good was that
part in which he said the wool sched-
ule was too high and ought to be
reduced. !.
81 was so certain that the presi-
dent would sign the bill cutting down
the wool tariff that l lost the best
hat that can be made in the United
States on that proposition. I took
him at his word. l never believed
he would veto it until the last two
or three days"
Then the roll was called. The
twenty-five insurgents who stood on
their former record and voted to
pass the wool bill over the veto were
Anderson, Davis, Lindbergh, Miller,
Stennerson and Volstead, of Mime
sofa: Hanna and Helgesen. of North
Dakota; Haugen, Hubbard and
Woods, of Iowa; Kent, of California:
Norris. of Nebraska; Jackson, Mad
ison, Murdoch and Young, of Kan
sas; La Toilette and Warburton, of
Washington; Lenroot, Morse and
Nelson, of Wisconsin.
Akin, of New York, independent
republican, also voted to override the
veto.
The eight insurgent Republicans
WHO voted with their colleagues for
the conference report last Monday,
but deserted them to support the
veto, were:
Nye, of Minnesota; Esch. Kopp
and Davidson, of Wisconsin; Rees, OF
Kansas; Stephens, of California;
Sloan and Kinkaid, Of Nebraska.