The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-02
TARIFF REVISION
 PLANS ARE MOVED
 CLOSER ID TAFT
Another ''Unholy Alliance" Passes a Farmers Free
 List Measure
DIFFERS BUT LITTLE
 FROM ORIGINAL BILL
Had One More Democrat Been Pres- ent House Bill Would Have Passed-Underwoo Says
 Bill Will Go to Taft

Bill VIII GO to laft
 Washington, August 1.-The demo- cratic tariff programme was moved up closer to President Taft today when the Senate. by another remarkable coalition of democrats and republican insurgents, passed a farmers free list bill after voting down the original House measure so closely that one more ldemocratic senator would have changed the result and left the entire revision issue squarely before the President to- night.
 The 'unholy al1iance," as the com bination of the republican wing and the democratic party has been called. massed in almost unbroken alignment, swept aside a host of amendments, voted down by tie vote the original House measure, according to pro- gramme for political purposes, and then carried by a surprising concen- | tration of strength a measure differing l from the House. bill only in compara- | lively unimportant particulars. Now the bill goes back to the House and Democratic Leader Underwood of | that body tonight confidently asserted | that it will be finally agreed to in con- ference between the two houses and sent to President Taft
 It is not certain that the House will insist on conference, for many prom inent democratic representatives. be- lieving that the bill has not been ma terially changed, are urging that the
 
 controversy and rush the first of the tariff measures up to the President for veto or approval.
 q think the bill will go to President Taft" Leader Underwood said. q am not sure 1t will be sent to conference; I certainly see nothing to prevent the two houses reaching an agreement upon it's final form"
 Needed Just One More
 Had Senator Bailey of Texas voted wlth his dsrneeeastc egsociates or he'd Gov Hoke Smith Of Georeia. as the new sena tor-e elect from that state, been on hand and voted with his party, the | free list bill would have passed the Senate unchanged and could have been 1 in the hands of President Taft tonight. l One vote was all that stood in the way of placing the entire issue of demo-
 cratic insurgent tariff reform immedi-
 ately before him.
 MT. Bailey announced last night that he | hoped the privilege of casting the deciding | vote would fall to him in order to show his opposition. Governor Smith has in- sisted all along that he would not leave 1 Georgia at this time to assume his seat | in the Senate.
 l The House free list bill was beaten on tie vote of 39 to 3s; was then recon sidered, changed by a compromise amend ment offered by Senator Kern of Indiana, and with democratic-republican insurgent support, finally passed as amended by AS to 30.
 Originally the bill provided that meat products, flour and cereal products from all countries should be admitted free of tariff duty into the United States The Kern amendment provided that this free admission shall apply only to meats, flour and cereal products coming from any foreign country with which the United States has a reciprocity trade agreement and which shall admit from the Usited States free of duty cotton, corn, wheat. oats horses. cattle and hogs"
 It is admitted that this provision ap- plies only to Canada, after the new reci- procity agreement shall have become ef- fective. Senators Bailey. Clapp and in surgents who voted for the free list bill after the Kern compromise amendment had been adopted, said tonight that the amendment accomplishes what they tried offered as amendlpents to the original bill. bill.
 Several other amendments were adopted after they had been first defeated when offered as amndmnts to the original bill One of these, by Mir. Gronna of North Dakota, insurgent republican, extends the free admission of shoes 10 cover all kinds of footwear, whether leather or not. An other, by the same author, admits free Roman, Portland and other hydraulic ce- ments. An amendment hy MT shivley os Indiana democrat. adds binders to the list of agricultural machinery that 1 is to be admitted free
 All Depends on Taft | If President Taft vetoes the bill and | the wool tariff bill both or whien, It | is asserted. will be sent to him. the dem | ocratic managers of the House will make
 no further attempt at tariff revision this | session hut will continue the prepara- | tion of tariff bills for the regular session | next December. If he signs either meas
 ire the whole tariff programme of the
 democrats will be opened up and Con- 1 sress will remain in session. l Democratic Leader Underwood made this announcement today. | The Kern compromise takes fresh meat nroducts out of the free list bill. except such as come from countries that admit certain American farm products duty | free.
 Tn effect 1t admits meats free only | rom countries having reciprocal agree ments with the United states and it is l understood will apply only to Canada | The Kern amendment represented the attempt to reconcile the democratic in- terests with the nsurgent-repubicans who believed some further concessions should be obtained for agricultural pro- ducts. | The democrats and insurgents were ready for the defeat of the measure While several of them had voted it was apparently acknowledged if it was de- feated 1t would be resurrected. amended by compromise and again brougN to a vote. Senator ,LaFollette. republican in- sargent, who had voted against the pas sage of the bill, made the motion to re- consider the vote. It carried without . roll call
 With the bill restored to life Senator Kern of Indiana, came forward with thu compromise agreement The vote on the
 Kern compromise amendment was as fol-
 lows:
 1 For amendment, republicans-Represent atives Borah. Bourne, Bristow, Brown. (CONTiNUED ON PAGE p