The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-02-10
FOR RECIPROCITY
FAVORABLE ACTION IN HOUSE
ASSURED ~ PLEDGES
IT. CAUCUS.
PAPER MAKERS OBJECT
Bill Establishing Punishment for Spies
Passes House--homestead Meas
ure is Ready for
Taft.

Washington, ID. c. Favorable &C.
ton of the house on the Canadian reci-
procity agreement was assured when
the caucus of Democratic representa-
tives formally pledged the party to
vote for the agreement. The resoll-
Was carried 90 to -. On motion of
MIR. Clark of Missouri, the action Of
the caucus was made unanimous.
Anti-reciproclty Democrats We're CIV
en- free reins at the caucus of the house
Democrats at the capitol. Most of
those opposed to the Canadian agree.
lnent submitted by President Taft eX-
pressed their views and a number
dwelt on the fact that the bill incor-
porating the agreement should not pass
without amendment. Amendments. of
course, would invalidate the entire
agreement.
Conspicuously hung in the lobby
back of the house was a placard bear
ing a quotation from a speech by Min
ority Leader Clark. on June Z last, the
placard having been placed there by
a Republican to call attention to Mr..
C1ark'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 l
intend TO fight for the right to amend
every section of every great bill which
comes 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 soon as this congress adjourns,
the movement to indorse the recipro-
city agreement, both of them declaring
for it unequivocally.
Messrs. Hammond of Minnesota,
Brantley of Georgia, Webb of North
Carolina, Leagre of South Carolina
n Others spoke in 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 Republi-
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 EN-
bodied in the Mccall bill, which was
the directly before the eau
Gus. To this bill Mr.. Brantley offer
ed an amendment to refer the whole
matter to the ways and NEAR com.
mittee for. action at the mex con-
gress, but this was defeated. 81 to 80.
The % 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. It
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 committee
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 is contemplated in the pro-
posed reciprocity agreement with
Canada.
Spy Bill is 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
~battleships or on navy yards or forts
without proper authority. For such
offense the penalty is a fine not to ex-
coed 81 900 or one ear in prison. II
the person attempts to sell the infor.
nation to q foreign government, the
penalty is fixed at 10 years in prison.
Mr.. Hobson exp1ain>l that the bill
would not prohibit tourists from TAX.
ing harmless snap shots.
Payne and Oaixeli Ut.
Representatives Payne of New York
chairman Of the house committee on
ways and means, and Dalzell of Penn
~sylvania. second member of that
committee, as we'll as chairman OF
the rules committee, are ill in bed
with la grippe. In their absence Mr..
Mccall of Massachusetts conducted
the hearing of the ways and mea
committee on the Canadian recipro.
city agreement.