The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-24
REQUIRING FINANCE COMMITTEE
TO REPORT WOOL BILL BE.
FORE JULY 10TH.
RECIPROCITY IN DOUBT
OTHER MATTERS MUST COME BE
FORE CANADIAN BILL is
CONSIDERED.

Washington.-The throwing of the
Democratic wool revision bill into the
Senate drove the insurgent Republi-
cans of that body into an open coali-
tion with the Democrats In a demand
for a general revision of the tariff and
brought about the threatened crisis in
the finance committees control of the
Senate.
At the end of bitter fight the reso-
luton by Senator Gore requiring the
finance committee to report back the
by a vote of 80 to 1S.
The fate of the Canadian reciprocity
bill is in doubt as a result of the re-
markable developments of the days
session of the Senate.
Western Republicans who have
fought the reciprocity measure, taking
up challenges thrown down by the
Democratic leaders, followed each
other in rapid succession in their ulti-
matums to the Senate leaders.
These ultimatums were invariably
to the effect that before the recipro-
city bill is permitted to pass. Re
publican Senate will be forced to un-
dertake a revision of other schedules
of the tariff, including much more
than the wooden revision bill and the
free list bill, which have gone through
the House.
OF the affirmative vote cast for the
Gore motion, overthrowing the fl
nance committee, sixteen were Repub-
licans.
AS the result of the Senate's action,
Senator Penrose, before adjournment,
called meeting of the finance COM
mittee, of which he is chairman, and
he and other regular Republicans pre-
dicted that when the Senate convenes
the wool measure, together with the
free list bill, will be reported ad-
versely.
Notable speeches on reciprocity
were made in both branches of Con-
gress, Senator Root, announcing that
he favored the agreement, advocated
and explained his amendment to the
wood pulp and paper provision OF the
bill, around which the reciprocity has
centered and which President Taft op-
ardize the whole agreement.
Republican Leader Mann in the
House attacked the Root amendment
as a violation of the Canadian recip-
rocity agreement.
The fight began the instant that the
wool revision bill appeared from the
House of Representatives. Senator
Gore, apparently with the approval OF
Democratic leaders, rioved that the
finance committee be instructed to re-
port the bill back to the Senate on or
before July 10th. The admitted pur-
pose of the motion was to prevent the
finance committee from holding the
bill indefinitely or from failing to re-
port at all
The result of the Gore motion was
to disrupt so completely the lines that
have formed in the Senate that 1t can
not be foretold now when vote can
be reached on the reciprocity bill or
whether enough votes can be mus
tered to pass it without amendment.
Senators Cummins, Nelson, Craw-
ford, La Follette,' Jones and other Re-
publican insurgents from Northwest
ern states who have opposed the reclp'
rocity bill because of alleged discrimi-
nation against agricultural interests,
declared that before vote would be
permitted on the reciprocity bill, they
would demand that the other sched'
ules of the tariff be taken up, ana
would insist upon an attempt TO tack
many of them upon the reciprocity
measure.