The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-06-28
Brings Abeuta Coalition BeIwees lssst.
gedts and Democrats.
now DEMAND REVISION
The Republicans of the West Declare
that If Reciprocity With Canada Is
Adopted There Must Be General
Changes in the Tariff Law Now II
Force
Force.

The throwing Of the Democratic
wool revision bill into the senate On
Wednesday drove the insurgent Re-
publicans Of that body into an open
coalition with the Democrats In
demand for a general revision Of the
tariff, and brought about the threat
ened crisis in the finance committee
in the control Of the senate. At tks
end of a bitter fight the resolution
by Senator Gore requiring the finance
committee to report back the wool
bill before July 10 was passed by q
vote of SO 10 1S. 100
Western Republicans who have
fought the reciprocity measure, tax
ing up challenges thrown down By
the Democratic leader, followed each
other in rapid succession In thsa
ultimatums to the senate leaders
These uItimatums were inVariaMT
, that before the reciprocity bill Is
permitted to pass Republican sen-
ate will be forced to undertake. q
revision of other schedules Of th6
tariff, including much more than tsSs
wooden resivion bill and the free list,
which have gone through the house
Of representatives.
OF the affirmative votes cast for
! The Gore motion overthrowing the
finance committee, sixteen were Re
publicans. Trey were Senators Bor-
ak, Bourne, Bristow. Brown, Clapps
Crawford. Cummins, Dixon, Gronna
Jones, Kendon, LaFollette, Nelson
Poindexter, Townsend and Works.
This included the full insurgant
strength Of 13 and In addition sena-
tors Jones, Nelson and Townsend
Senator Myers was the only DEMO-
crat voting with the Republicans
against the motion.
Notable speeches on reciprocafT
were made in both branches Of con-
gress. Senator Root, announcing
that he favored the amendment, a6-
yocated and explained his amend
ment to the wood pulp and paper.
provision Of the bill around which
amendment the reciprocity fight has
centered and which amendment Pres
ident Taft opposes on the ground
that it might jeopardize the whole
agreement. Republican leader Mann
in the house attacked the Root
amendment as a violation Of the Ca
madam reciprocity agreement.
Wednesdays fight began the In
slant that the wool revision bill ap-
peared from the course Of representa-
tives. Senator Gore, apparently with
the approval Of Democratic leaders.
moved that the finance committee be
instructed to report the bill back to
the senate on or before July 10.
His admitted purpose was to prevent
the finance committee from holding
the bill indefinitely or from failing to
report it at all.
The result Of the Gore motion was
to disrupt so completely the lines
that have formed in the senate that It
can not be foretold now when vote
can be reached on the reciprocity Dill
or whether enough votes can be mus
tererd to pass it without amendment.
Senators Cummings, Nelson, Crsw-
ford, La Toilette, Jones and other :
Republican insurgents from North
western States, who have opposed the
reciprocity bill because Of alleged dis
elimination against the agricultural
interest, declared that before a vote
would be permitted on the reciprocity
bill they would demand that the other
schedules of the tariff be taken up
and would insist on an attempt to
tack many of them on the reciprocity
measure.