The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04
Magazine Rate Clause of Measure Is Stricken
 Out By Penr0se
TARIFF BOARD BILL COMES TO VOTE TODAY
After All-Night Session of Filibus- tering Order Was Brought Out of Chaos and Three More
 Supply Bills Pass

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 . Washington. March 3.-With the :
 % virtual certainty of an early ex- <
 ' tra session of Congress beclouding <
 . their horizon, both houses of Con '
 . gress were in session at a late hour ' tonight
 ' From the White House came late < in the day the admission that the .
 ' President had abandoned all hope '
 ' of the passage of the Canadian .
 ' reciprocity agreement.
 \ Shortly after o'clock the Senate <
 ' refused by vote of 23 to 24 to go .
 ' into executive session in order to >
 ' take up the resolution approving >
 ' the constitution of the proposed Y -< state of Mexico.
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 Washington. March s.-The Senate | this evening passed the postoffice ap propriation bill carrying about s25e,- 100000 after striking from 1t the provision increasing to four cents a pound the postal rate on the adver- Using sections of the large magazines. Postmaster General Hitchcock staid in the chamber while the bill was under consideration and witnessed the defea. Of the plan he had recommended.
 Senator Penrose. chairman of the postonice committee. recognized the futllity of attempting to secure tho passage of the bill with the magazine rate feature embodied. It was clear enough that senators who opposed it would so impede the progress of the | measure as to defeat, If not that, oth- l CT legislation that offered promise of | enactment.
 Though withdra wing the provision. Mir. Penrose yet hoped for it's ultimate | success. He secured the unanimous adoption of substitute authorizing the President to appoint a commission of three members to make thorough investigation of the whole cost Of handling second class matter. It is provided that one of the commissioners ahaIl be a judicial officer of the eoy-- ernrnent and tile other two shall .AS~ persons who hold no office and have no connection whatever with the post office department or with any mag azine or newspaper.
 Before passing the postoffice bill the Senate passed the sundrv civil and the national bill, two more of the great supply measures for administration Of the government
 Order Out of Chaos
 Order out of chaos was brought at | 3.05 o'clock this morning when the Senate, after many hours of flibuster- Ing. reached an agreement that at S:30 o'clock Saturday morning vote would be taken on the bill to create per manent tariff board.
 It was like snatching a brand from | tba hnrpfpp when friends Of the measure accomplished that result. l What had been supposed to be the deathknell for this measure had been | sounded several hours before. The Sen- ate at 1 o'clock adjourned until 10 l o'clock today. Unfamiliarity with the rules of the Senate on the part of the men engineering the obstructive | tactics was responsible for the crumb- ling of the oppositoin.
 The naval bill took more time than was expected and after nearly an hour had been devoted to it MT. Stone pro- | tested that 1t was evident that 1t could not be finished without keeping the Senate too long and he moved an ad- journment. The motion was rejected, | whereupon he raised point of no quorum Rather than rout the tired senators from their beds, Senator Per kins moved to adjourn. An even score of waary-eyed senators faced Vice President sherman at 10 o'clock | tnlS morning when ne called the upper | house to order. Adjournment had been taken at 4 o'clock this morning. Among the solons who braved the loss | of sleep were Senators Hale and Stone | They greeted each other pleasantly and engaged in brief chat before beginning the days work. MT. Hale was anxious to begin the consideration of the general sundry civil bill and to this end sought to have the formal reading of yesterdays | journal dispensed with.
 Hale Talks Reciprocity | Mir Stone asked how long a time would | be required to complete consideration of | the sundry civil bill and when MT. Hale replied that he hoped to do so by noon, MT. Stone said;
 'T ask unanimous consent that at that | time a vote be taken on the bill known as the Canadian reciprocity bill.' "Oh oh. ha, ha!' responded MT Hale, apparently amused
 l The Senate agreed to the House pro vision of ss.0O0.0oO in the sundry civil l bill for beginning the work of fortify- | ing the Panama canal. M The Senate adopted amendment of- | fered by Senator Culberson, cutting down the House appropriation of s40o.ooo to con I tinue the work of the temporary tariff board to s20oo0o, and making the amount available only for the fiscal year 1912 | An amendment making conditional ap-
 
 board in the event of it's establishment by law was offered by Senator Cummins and adopted
 The Senate defeated by vote of 4S to 70 an amendment to the sundry bill of fered by Senator Culberson providing that the tariff bureau must report to Con gress hy the first Monday in Decembe'. 1911, on iron and steel, cotton and cot ton manufactures and wool and woolcn manufactures
 Debate Magazine Question
 Despite the fact that Senator Penrose l repeated time and again his statement that he intended to withdraw the objec- tionable clause on increasing the rates on | magazines. tho debate continued in the | Senate for several lours. 1 Senators Owen and Bristow roundly de- | nounced the proposed increases on the \ | magazines. The latter, turning to where | Postmaster General Hitchcock was seat ed in the chamber said the Senate had a right to know whether the deficit in | the postoffice department is due to sec | ond-class matter or 'inefficiency and mis- 1 mana cement in the department.' Senator Jones of Arkansas took the | magazines sharply to task for attempt- |
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