The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

Washington, July 22.-(Special )- Every element of nature and grace smiled today upon the fnal passage of reciprocity.
 After the storms of yesterday, fierce and vivid as the. debates upon the bill followed the calm of the tranquil morn of consummation. The breeze came from the north-Caradaward. The atmosphere was glowing IS with the warmth of international good will, and the sky, so recently overcast with clouds, was as clear and as tender a blue as ever the sunshine of prosperity came shimmering through.
 It was 10:5s by ths postoffice clock. 10.59 by the clock in tse press gal lery and II o'clock sharp hy the, piece of machinery facing the vice president when James sherman called the Sem ate to order.
 McCumber First Victim
 At 11:2O demand for quorum mus tered the tagging senators to their seats At 11:25 McCumber. the blond giant of North Dak ota, offered his first "a free list amendment-and at 11:So McCumbe CT had been voted down by 6i to l6. At 113l Knute Nelson of Min nesota marched into the open amend ment field for grains and farm products and at I1:40 58 senators had assisted in the obsequies of Senator Nelson.
 Little Simmons of North Carolina, with side glance at Bailey, sailed in with his plea for fresh meats and flour and cereals at HAP. We buried little Simmons softly at 11:50 by the usual organ chant of Is to 64.
 Then Cummins smilingly presented J Jv,,o y1f An a nJ cfa another Oh oil cloth and linoieum. Somebody in the Senate gave Cummins an extra vote for his winning smile but the usual epitaph of IF to 64 was written upon the general insurgents smile.
 LaFoIlette Opens Fire
 Then LaFollette, the Leviathan of anti-reciprncity, with dramatic inten- sity of quiet,. sent forward those far famed amendments on the wool and cotton schedules, for which the Ser ate has waited and the people have wilted for. weeks. And with unruffie1 serenity the Senate sat upon him, GA to 15, and. 63 to 15.
 LAFollette then offered strange and apparently propitiatory amendment, making wood pulp and print paper frec with all the world. But the time was not ripe for this tender concession and 1t only won II. votes.
 Now, Bailey, with his amendments shelved, like his oratory. always to. a climax, offered the free list as q handicap to the bill. Fifteen to ss was the an swer.
 Then Bailey, with dramatic defiance to his democratic colleagues of the cot ton states, played his master stroke.
 s'I offer as an amendment to put cot ton bngging and ties upon the free list" was his appeal to the cotton interests of Dixie. There was an enormous stir among the senators who represent the realm where cotton is king But the line never wavered.
 Alabama fell in with Bailey, giving him + votes to @ The solid south was solid still for reciprocity.
 One dramatic incident of the Bailey attachments was significant. When the roll was called, Dillingham; of Vermont stose to explain that he was paired with s the senior senator from South Carolina, Who, if he were present. would vote no. With almost suggestion of pain in his wonderful. voice. Bailey deinandea:
 May I ask through what source the senator from Vermont was authorized to make this statement?" - ..
 To which Dillingham; responded:
 Through Senator Bacon of Georgia. to whom Senator Tillrnan referred mo.
 Tillman Still in Race
 Which means, to those who know. tlia, the brave old radical from South Caro. hna. who in his broken health of mind and body. followed Bailey almost blndly in his last attendance of the former ses- son, has recovered at home some of the splendid incredulity of his progressive democracy and comes back to his own place in the ranks of the party.
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