Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-19
PRESIDENT SUSTAINED.
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OF Majority Tseasfe- Underwood. aftei
tire ways and means committee con-
ference. We have tried IL put our tar
if hills over the Presidents head and
have failed twice There is no use
lighting it out any longer. AS soon as
we pess the cotton bill and amend
nents we will he ready 10 go. The
President may then veto the measure
We viii not he here 10 discuss it,"
strenuous efforts were made by Son
ate Democratic and Republican lad
ers in conference with Mr.. Under
wood, Speaker Clark and other Dem
ocrats TO bring the session 70 close
tomorrow night. but owing to the de
sire Of the members of the ways and
means committee To study the features
OF the Senate iron and steel and elem
ical schedules before concurring in
them, il was agreed to dispose of the
final business carly next week.
Failure of the attempt of the Dem
ocratic House to override the vetoes
came in n day filled with stirring in
cidents. The close of the debate on
the motion of Mr.. Underwood To pass
the wool bin over tho veto found
Champ Clark, Speaker of the House,
and an aspirant for the Presidency.
pleading the cause Of his fellow Dem
ocrats from the floor, surrounded by
throng Of his colleagues, who cheer
ed him vigorously. The galleries
were filled To overlooking and the
Speaker, as he concluded, was given
demonstration that lasted for some
minutes.
There were 227 affirmative votes, %
nd
one Independent, while the negative
votes were l29.
The motion to override the veto on
the free list failed of a two-thirds ma
jority also. The vote was 226 to 127.
During the three hours of debate on
the WOOL bill the corridors of the Cap
itol reverberated time and again with
shouts of approval and derision from
the floor. Spirited discussions between
members We're frequent Republican
Leader Mann and Rep. Clayton Of AL
ALBANIA had a wordy encounter. which
for a moment had a threatening as
pect. The incident was precpitated
when the minority leader objected to
the Alabama members request TO have
a newspaper editorial printed in the
Congressional Record.
That the administration was keenly
watching developments was evidence
ed in the presence on the floor of the
House of Messrs. Wickersham, Hitch
cock Nagel and Stimson of the Pres
idents cabinet. All of them Kept q
close tally on the roll call when it was
apparent that the Democrats could not
rally the necessary two-thirdS ma
tcrity.
Speaker Clark was given an ovation
from both SIDES of the House when he
left the chair and took the floor to
join in the discussion. The climax Of
his address was reached when he said:
THE President has a right to veto
this bill if he wants to- | am not quar-
reling with him. | am lamenting his
lack of wisdom as his personal friend
He has raised an issue that will rage
with undated fury until the close Of
the polls in November 1872
This was the signal for such M out
burst IS seldom has been known in the
halls Of Congress. II Was q genuine
demonstrate ten from his fellow Demo-
Gratis. Again and again as he proceed
ed the Democrats applique cheered
and pounded their desks, until Demo
cratic Leader Underwood. who ooca
pied the chair for the first time of the
session, almost desraired OF maintain
ing order.
Then the roll was called. The % In
surgents who stood on their former
record and voted to pass the will bill
over the Presidents head, were An
derson. Davis, Lindeherg, Miller
Steener and Volstead. Mimi; Hanna
and Helgeson. y. s.: Haughen, HUI
bard and Woods, Iowa; Kent. Cal;
Norris, Neb.: Jackson, Madison Muir
dock and Young. Kan; Lafferty and
Warburton. Wash. Lenroot. Morse
and Nelson. Wis.
Akin, ". Y. Ind Rep. also voted to
pass the bill over the veto
The eight Insurgent Republicans
who voted for their colleagues for
the conference report last Monday
but who deserted them TO support Tho
veto of the President were Nve.
Mimi; Esch and Davidson. Wis.
Reese, Kan; Stephens. Cal; Sloan
and Kinkaid, Neb.
No sooner had the result been an
nounced than the assistant secretary
from the White House arrived with
the Presidents veto of the free list
bill.
The Free List Bill Veto.
In his message vetoing the farmers
free list bill, President Taft. after an
extended review of the measure, de-
clares that the 'same reasons which
impellcd me to decline to sign the
wool bill, control me in this case"
The President summarizes his OBJ
jetions to the bill in these terms:
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