Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-11
FARMERS FREE LIST
PASSED BY Sc mate
BY LARGE MAJORITY
Insurgents and Democrats Put
Through Measure Of Tariff
Revision by Coalition.

in the same alliance that resulted
in the passage of a compromise
wool revision bill in the Senate
last week, the democrats and re-
publican insurgents Of that body
today passed a compromise far.
mers' free list bill. The original
House bill first was defeated and
then reoffered in modified form by
Senator Kern, Of Indiana.
AS amended and finally adopted
the bill differed but little from
the original. The Kern compro-
mise takes fresh meat products
out of the free list bill except such
as come from countries which adj
nit certain American farm pro-
ducts duty free. The Senate
earlier had defeated Senator
Bailey's amendment, taking all
meats out of the free list bill.
The Kern amendment represent
ed the attempt to reconcile the
democrats interests with the in
surgent republicans, who believed
some further concessions should
be obtained for agricultural prod
ucts. X, ~ ssst &rs
In effect it admits meats free
only from countries having reci-
procity agreements with the Unit
ed States, and it is understood it
will apply only to Canada.
What the Bill Provides.
Following is a list of articles which
the bill puts on the free list, coupled
with a statement of the duties or them
under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law:
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb and pork,
~ cents per pound.
Ham and bacon, 4 cents per pound.
Other meats, prepared n preserved,
25 per cent ad valorem.
Lard, ~ cents per pound.
Buckwheat flour, 20 per cent ad va
loren.
Cornmeal, 40 cents per 100 pounds.
Wheat -four, 25 per cent ad valorem.
Rye flour, ~ cents per pound.
Oatmeal and rolled oats, / cent per
pound.
Biscuits, bread, waters, ETC., not
sweetened, 20 per cen ad valorem.
Timber, hewn, sided or squared. and
round timber, one-half of / per cent per
cubic foot.
Shingles, so cents per 1000.
Laths, 20 cents per 1000 pieces.
Sawed boards, planks and deals, SO
cents per 1000, board measure.
Sewing machines, 80 per cent ad va
loren.
Salt, in bags, sacks or barrels, IL
cents per 100 pounds.
Salt, In bulk, Z cents per 100 pounds.
Flows n other agricultural imple-
ments, 10 per cent ad yalorem.
Bagging for cotton, siX-tenths of /
cent per square yard.
Burlap, for covering agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS, e -eighths OF / cent per
square yard.
Hoops of band iron for baling cotton,
three-tenths of / cent per pound.
Leather, grain, buff and split, 7h
per cent ad valorem.
Leather, rough and sole, 5 per cent
ad valorcm.
Boots and shoes. 10 per cent ad va
loren.
Harness, saddlery, etc, 20 per cent
ad valorem.
Barbed fence wire. / to 1& cents per
pound.
Bailey Bolts Democrats.
The adoption OF the compromise
measure came after a narrow failure
of democratic efforts to pass the bill In
Its original form. But for the fact
that Senator Bailey, of Texas, refused
to support the bill IN the shape il had
have been passed unchanged by the
Senate. AS 1t was, it was beaten by
a tie vote, 80 to SO, Senator Bailey
being the only democrat to vote
against it.
The democrats and insurgents were
reGdy for the defeat of the measure.
While several Of them had voted for 1t,
II was apparently understood that il 1t
was defeated II would be resurrected
amended by a compromise agreement
and again brought to a vote. Senator
La Toilette, Of Wisconsin, who had
voted against the passage of the bill,
made the motion to reconsider the vote.
Il carried without O. roll all. With
the bill restored to life, Senator Kern,
Of Indiana, came forward with the COM
promise amendment. The vote on the
Kern compromise amendment was as
follows:
For the Amendment.
Republicans-Borah, Bourne, Bris-
tow, Brown, Clapp. Nelson. Crawford.
Gamble, Cummins, Kenyon, Dixon,
Gronna, McCumber, Jones, La Toilette
Townsend, Works.
Democrats-Bacon, Bailey, Bank
head, Johnson (Ala-), Bryan, Fletcher
Chamberlain, Chiffon, Watson, Clarke
(Ark.), Davis, Foster, Thornton, Hitch
cock. Johnson (Maine), Kern. Shively,
Martin (Va-), Swanson, MARITIME IN. -,
Myers, Newlands, O'Gorman. Overman,
Owen, Paynter, Pomerene, Reed, Stone,
Simmons, Smith (Md.), Taylor.
Against the Amendment.
Republicans - Bradley, Brandegee.
Mclean, Briggs, Burnham. Burton.
Clark (Wyo.), Crane, Lodge, Cullom.
Lorimer, Curtis, Guggenheim. Hepburn,
Lippitt, Wetmore. Nixon, Oliver, Page,
Perkins. Poindexter, Richardson, Root.
Smith (Mich-). Smoot, Stephenson,
Warren.
Democrats-Gore. Smith (S. CO.
Absent or Paired with Absentees-
Culberson, Dillingham;, Dupont, Frye,
G~allinger, Lea, Penrose, Percy, Rayner,
Sutherland. Tillman, Williams,
The Senate began its final struggle