Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-15
Reciprocity Ratified by House
of Representatives.
RECEIVES MAJORITY OF 12s
Republican Party About Evenly Di-
vided on the Measure.
RIGID CLOTURE RULE INVOKED
Democrats Almost Solid for Presi-
dents Recommendation-Champ
Clark Predicts Annexation.

Clark Predicts Annexation.
Reciprocity Is up to the Senate. The
Mccall bill to carry into effect the tenta-
tive reciprocal agreement between the
United States and the Dominion Of Cam
ada was passed by the House Of Repre-
sentatives last evening by vote OF 221
to o. One vote In the negative was added
today, bringing that total up to 90.
OF the 215 republican members Of the
House 165 voted yesterday on the final
passage Of the Mccall bill. OF these 50
voted against the reciprocity measure
and IS for It.
OF the sixty-seven members Of the
House who did not vote at all. forty three
were republicans and twensy-four were
democrats. OF tine forty-ttrsa republic
cans only twenty-nine were Dared while
twenty-five cf the twenty -four demo-
Gratis registered their views on the re-
ciprocity question by this method
Absent and Paired.
Representatives Tawney OF Minnesota,
McMorran of Michigan. Allen OF Maine
and Barclay of Pennsylvania were alb
sent and paired for the occasion against
the Mccall bill. The other republicans
absent and paired were by means Of the
general pair or special pair agreement
registered in favor of the Mccall bill.
The republican members who were abb
sent and not paired on the reciprocity
bill were Representatives Ccudrey OF Mis-
souri,. Grow Of Missouri. Diekama of Wis
consin, NJ. E. Driscol Of New York. Fow-
Ter of New Jersey. Hamilton OF Michigan.
Huff Of Pennsylvania, Howell OF New
Jersey. Mudd Of Maryland, Murphy OF
Missouri. W. H. Palmer ..o ct pennsyivan'a
The vote In favor Of the bill still stands
ut pol.
Speaker Cannon at the assembling Of
the House Of Representatives today said
he had discovered that his vote was not
recorded on the reciprocity bill yester-
III the Speaker had been asked If he
had voted against the bill he would un-
hesitatingly have answered yes" said
M. Cannon.
81 heard you vote against it," said Rep
resentative Mann of Illinois.
The Speakers name was thereupon re-
corded with those who voted against the
measure, making the total SO.
Goes to Senate Today.
The Mccall bill as passed by the House
was transmitted to the Senate today.
There was little indication In the House
today of the lively scenes that marked
the progress OF the measure in the last
few hours of the contest. in which an
almost solid democracy Joined with q
portion of the republican representation
for the bill The disposition of the meas
ure helps to relieve the legislative con-
gestion on the House side Of Congress.
1t was the democratic party in the
House that upheld the Presidents hands
and made possible the passage Of this
measure, the enactment of which the
executive SO ardently desires. OF the 81
votes against the bill, 81 were republican.
Only IS republicans stuck by the Presi-
dent and voted for the Mccall bill, whtie
143 democrats voted in the affirmative.
The democratic leaders In the House
made 1t plain that from their point OF
view President Taft was following them
in this matter OF reciprocity, and that
those republicans who voted for the Nc
Call measure were simply trailing be-
hind the democratic host. 4
Measure Once In Peril.
Had not the democrats voted soIidly
against the apparently innocent motion
of Representative -Dalzell last night to
recommit the reciprocity treaty bill with
the free meats amendment, the death
knell of the treaty would have been
sounded then and there. This interest
ing fact developed today when il was
learned that negotiations between this
government and Lanaoa had been under
taken with view to admitting and cx-
porting 1resn meats free and that Canada
had refused. Therefore, had the bill been
r.eommitted and amended in the seem
lngiy innocent particular suggested by
the crafty DaiZeli Ii would have been the
end OF the MCCALL bill.
The democrats In their caucus on reci-
pToclty considered the fresh meats
ainenument, wnlcn Representative Serene
tayne and others had In interviews de-
ciared TO be harmless and necessary
amendment. Payne and Dalzeli had citeu
the TACT that without free meats the
trade agreement was open to the criti-
cism that It's meat specifications heiped
the packers and the cattle barons, out
did nothing for the consumer When
this point vas reached In the caucus, and
II was suggested that the democrats
might properly support such a motion to
Iecommit representative Oscar Under
wood stated that the President had in
1oiAea ann TINS matter had been taken
up with tanaua already and that Can
ada had refused.
az can Ieauliy De seen what would have
happened 10 the treaty had the demo-
Treaty been amended in this form.
Cloture Rule Adopted.
There were many interesting develop
lncnts following the two days Of debate
On the reciprocity proposition and imme-
diately preceding the three roll calls that
were demanded on important steps lead
Ing up 10 final passage. For one thing,
The debate would have been going on vet
had ii not been for the adoption of the
chokiest kind OF a gag rule which put
the bill to an immediate vote without any
possibility OF amendment. In fact, the
measure was not even read from the
clerks desk. 1t was remarked repeat
cdiy as extremely interesting to observe
the joy with which the democratic a1de,
which SO recently spent most Of its time
denouncfng gags not half as bad as this
embraced the opportunity to vote for this
particular rule. They were positively
enthusiastic about it.
But they did not esqape scot-free. Rep
iesentative Gardner of Massachusetts.
one of the leaders of the insurgent re-
publican revolt Of a year ago, denounced
his late republican allies, lambastin
Them oratortcally for swallowing their
own words and declaring that hereafter
everything they said would be under sus-
picion.
Then there was the unusual spectacle pre-
scented of Representative Dalzell OF Penn.
sylvania. chairman Of the rules committee.
stand-patter and reactionary. whose de-
light 1t used to be in happier days to ride
rough 1hOd a hAln1e4a mi orttx a.