The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-19
HIS VETOES GOOD
Democrats Fail to Muster Votes
Enough to Override
Taft's Objections to Wool and
Free List Bills.
INSURGENTS DESERT
Although % of Them Stood
Firm to the Last.
These Included jackson, Madi-
son, Murdoch and Young.

Washington. Aug 19.=In a sue
cession of dramatic events. the Dem
ocratic house of representatives met
defeat in its supreme effort to pass
the wool and free list bills over the
presidents veto, and virtually fixed
upon adjournment of congress early
next week.
The house on Monday will agree to
the cotton tariff revision bill as
amended in the senate but will not
hold congress in session to await the
certain veto of that measure. The
and adjournment is assured in the
view of leaders of both parties in
both houses, by next Wednesday at
the latest.
The Democratic house majority
with great dem onstration of enthu-
siasm, marshalled its ranks for the
great battle to override the president
and went down with flying colors.
The party leaders failed to muster
enough inSurgent Republican support
for the two-thirds majority necessary
to pass the tariff legislation over the
presidents head.
The Democratic members of the
ways and means committee deter
mined to end the long session. Mon
day the house will pass the cotton
bill, as amended in the senate, con-
tanning the iron and steel, chemical
and cotton machinery schedules and
the reciprocal provision for bitumin-
Gus coal crossing the Canadian Dor
der, and will send it to the president
Tuesday.
Congress will not be held in ses-
sion to await his veto, which the
house leaders concede is certain to
follow.
Congress will adjourn on We'd
nesday at the latest" was the de-
claration of Majority Leader Under
wood, after the ways and means COM
put our tariff bills over the presi-
dents head and have failed twice.
There is no use fighting it out any
longer"
Clark Takes the Floor.
Failure of the attempt of the Dem
ocratic house to override the vetOes
came in a day filled with stirring in
cidents. The close of the debate on
the motion of Mr.. Underwood to pass
the wool bill over the veto found
Speaker Champ Clark, an aspirant
for the presidency, pleading the cause
of his fellow Democrats from the
| floor surrounded by thrOng OF his
| COLLEAGUES, who cheered him vigor-
| ously The galleries were filled to
/ overlooking, and to the speaker, as
he concluded, was accorded a demon
stratiOn that for several minutes de-
! layed the rOllcal.
On the motion to pass the wool
| measure over the veto, there were
/ 227 affirmative votes, y of them IN
surgent Republicans, and one lnde-
pendent Republican, while the mega
| tive votes were 1873. The motion to
/ override the veto on the free list
failed of a two-thirds majority also,
the voting being 226 to 1877.
| 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;
1.-THE president has a right to veto
the bill, if he wants to. am not
quarreling with him. I am lamenting
his lack of wisdom 9as his personal
friend. He has raised an issue that
! will rage with unabated fury until the
| close of the polls in November, 1872
This was the signal for such an out
burst as seldom has been known in the
| halls of congress- 1t was a genuine
demonstration from his fellow Demo-
| Gratis Again and again as he con-
tinued the Democrats applauded,
cheered and pounded their desks until
Democratic Leader Underwood, VINO
occupied the chair for the first time
this session, almost despaired of main
tanning order.
Then the roll was called. The %
insurgents who stood on their. former
record and voted to pass the wool bill
derson, Davis. Lindbegh, Miller, Steen-
erson and Volstead Minnesota; Hanna
and Halgeson, North Dakota; Hagen,
Hubbard and Woods, Iowa; Kent, Cal
ifornia; Norris, Nebraska; Jackson,
Madison, Murdoch and Young, Kansas;
La Toilette and Warburton, Washing
ton; Lenroot. Morse and Nelson, Wis
consin.
Akin IN. ". Independent Republic
can, also voted to pass the bin over the
veto.
Insurgents Deserted.
The eight insurgent Republicans who
voted with their colleagues for the con-
ference report last Monday, but VINO
deserted them to support the veto Of
the president, were: Nye, Minnesota,
Esch, Kopp and Davidson Wisconsin;
Rees. Kansas; Stephens. California
Sloan and Kinkaid, Nebraska.
No sooner had the results been an
nounced than the assistant secretary
from the White House arrived with
the presidents veto of the free list BIZ
After it had been read, Mr.. Under
wood moved that it be passed, not
withstanding the veto. Following %
minutes discussion, led by Mr.. Payne
and Mr. Underwood, the roll was
called, the vote being 226 ayes and 127
nays. much less than the necessary
( two-thirds majority.
On the free list bill the Republicans
who voted to overrule the veto. who did
not so vote on the WOOL Dill, were
4 French, Idaho; Kinkaid, Nebras ka;
Lafferty, Washington, and Morgan
+ Oklahoma.
The Republicans who voted to over
j rule the wool bill veto, but not the
free list veto, were: Miller, Mime
sofa, and Young, Kansas.
Statehood Passes Senate.
Statehood for New Mexico and Ar
iona on a basis acceptable to Presiden
Taft was approved by the senat
through the passage of the Flood-Smit
resolution presented by Senator VII
= liam Alden Smith, chairman OF The com
mittee on territories