The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-02
PASS FREE LIST BILL |SENATE'S ~zW COALITION PUTS TARIFF QUESTION UP TO
 PRESIDENT. "unholy Alliance" Adopts Farmers Free List Bill After Voting
 Down House Measure by One Vote.

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 democratic tariff program was moved up closer to President Taft today when the senate by another remark ably coalition of democrats and re-
 publican insurgents passed a farm ers' free list bill after voting down
 the original house measure so close
 ly that one more democratic senator
 would have changed the result and
 left the entire revision issue square | ly before the president tonight. The "unholy alliance" as the combi-
 nation of the republican wing and
 the democratic party has been called
 massed in almost unbroken align meDt, swept aside a host of amend ments, voted down by tie vote the original house measure, according to program, for political purposes ahd then carried by a surprising con- centration of stfength a measure dlf- lfering from the house bill only ia comparatively unimportant particu- lars.
 Now the bill goes back to the house and democratic leader Underwood oI that body tonight confidently assert
 ed that it will be finally agreed to In conference betwen the two houses and sent to President Taft. 
 It is not certain that the house
 will insist on d. conference for many prominent democratic representatives believing that the bill nas not been materially changed, are urging rat
 the house accept the senate bill with out controversy and rush the first
 of the tariff measure up to the pTtrTs--
 ident for veto or approval.
 ~I Think the bill will go to Pres ldent Taft, Leader Underwood said
 n am not sure it will not be sent to
 conference; certainly see nothing
 to prevent the two houses from lreaczfng in agreement upon it's final form.
 Had Senator Bailey of Texas, vot- cd with his democratic associates or had Governor Hoke Smith of Geor- gia, as the new senator elect from that state been on hand and voted
 with his party, the free list bill
 would have passed the senate un- changed and could have been in the hands of President Iaft tonight. One ycts was all that stood in the way of placing the entire issue of demo- Icratic-insurgent tariff reform imme- diately before him.
 MT. Bailey announced last night that he hoped the privilege of cast ing the deciding vote would fall to him in order to show his opposition. Governor Smith has insisted all along that he would not leave Georgia al this time to assume his seat in the senate.
 The house free list bill was beaten on tie vote of 39 to S9, was then lreconsidered, changed by a compro- mise amendment offered by Senator Kern of Indiana, former democratic candidate for vice president and with
 Democratic -ttepublican insurgent SUD- port, finally passed as amended by
 vote of AS 70 80.
 OHginnlly the bill provided that meat products. flour and cereal pro- ducts from all countgies should be admitted free of tariff duty into the United States. The Kern amendment provides that this free admission snail apply only to meats, flour anu cereal products" coming from any foreign country ~ith which the Unit
 ed States has. reciprocal trade agreement and which shall admit from the United States tree of duty cotton, corn. wheat. oats, horses
 cattle and hogs"
 1t is admitted that ahis provision lapplies only % Canada. after the
 new reciprocity agreement shall have become effective. Senator Bailey
 Senator Clapp and other insurgents
 who voted for the free list bill af-
 ter the Kern compromise amend.
 mcst had been adopted, said tonight
 that the amendment accomplishes
 what they tried to effect by amend.
 ments to the reciprocity bill.
 Several other amendments were
 adopted after they had been first de.
 feated when offered as amendment:
 to tn original bill. One of these. by
 Mr. Gronna. of North Dakota. lnsur-
 gent republican, extends tiio Tree ass