The Washington herald., 1911-02-01
SENATE MAY KILL
TARIFF BOARD BILL
Measure Is Referred to the
Finance Committee.
BAILEY OPENS FIGHT ON IT
Texan Anxious to Keep Senate from
Voting on the Measure-Threatens
to Resort to Filibuster if Neces-
sary-Democrats See Republican
Scheme to Evade Issue.

The bill providing for a permanent tar
III board, which was passed by the House
Monday night, went to the Senate yester-
day and was referred to the finance COM
mittee Senator Bailey and other Demo-
Gratis made it apparent that they intend
to do everything possible to prevent the
passage of this bill and they are now
engaged in making plans for its defeat
Senator Burton, of Ohio, was speaking
on the river and harbor bill when the
tariff board bill was brought over from
the House. Senator Beveridge. Of In
diana, asked that the tariff board bill be
laid on the table, subject to the call of
any members of the Senate. Senator
Bailey was Immediately on his feet de-
manding the regular order.
THE Senator from Ohio" said MIR.
Bailey, cannot yield the floor for any
such request as this. The bill must go
to the Finance Committee, where it be-
longs
Report by BeveridEe.
1T may go there" snapped Senator
Beveridge. 1T will go wherever the SEN
ate says it shall go
We'll, 1 can tell the Senator from In
diana now said Senator Bailey. that
II VIII go to the committee
The Texas Senator seemed to be con-
siderably wrought up over the tariff bill
and he apparently was more determined
than ever to accomplish its death.
Administration leaders in the Senate
say that the bill will be passed If it is
ever brought to vote but this seems
unlikely now as the Democrats stand
ready to resort to a filibuster if necessary.
II is said that Senator Bailey in his fight
against this bill will have the support
of all but two of the Democrats in the
Senate. Senators Newlands, of Nevada,
and Owen of Oklahoma, are the two
who are in favor of the bill.
Embarrassing TO House Leaders.
The opposition of the Democratic Sen
ators to this measure will accentuate the
embarrassing position that Champ Clark
and other Democratic House leaders who
voted for the bill are now in. Speaker-to-
be Clark and the other Democratic lead
ers who voted with the Republicans on
this measure are being criticised by Sen
ate Democrats because they failed TO con-
suit the rank and file of the party in the
House before committing themselves on
the proposition. The Senate Democrats
will find justification for their opposition
to the bill in the fact that more than
ninety Democrats in the House voted
against it. as compared with thirty for it
The Democrats in the Senate will take
the position that the Republicans, in pre-
senting this tariff board measure, are
merely trying to get away from the rec
ord that they have made in passing the
Payne Aldrich tariff law. They will point
out that some of the principal advocates
of the bill the very men who only
a few months ago Were declaring that the
Payne-Aldrich law was the most perfect
tariff measure ever enacted.
The Democrats will contend that the
creation of a permanent tariff board is
designed chiefly to throw dust in the
air and to share in the credit of the tar
iff revision which the Democrats are to
make. The Senate Democrats declare that
they will insist upon holding the Repub-
lican party to its record on the Payne
Aidrich tariff bill. and that they will not
under any circumstances permit the en-
actment of the tariff board bill at this
session of Congress.