The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-22
INSIST ON FULL
TARIFF REVISION
Finance Committee Is Over
Thrown and Woo Bill and
/ Farmers Free List Must Be
Reported, Thus Making Sue
cess Of Reciprocity Al
most Impossible.

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throwing OF the Democratic WOOL re-
vision bill into the senate to-day
drove the Insurgent Republicans or
that body into an open coalition Win
the Democrats in a demand for gen
eral revision OF the tariff, and brought
ABOUT the threatened crisis In the
FINANCE Committees control or the
Senate. At the end of a bitter ngh,
the resolution by Senator Gore. requir-
ins the Finance Committee to report
back the wool bill before July 10. was
passed by vote of 80 to IS.
Western Republicans, who have
fought the reciprocity measure tax
Ing up challenges thrown down b. tho
Democratic leaders, followed cacn
other In rapid succession in their ul-
timatums to the Senate leaders.
These ultimatums were lnvaria piy
that before the reciprocity bill Is per-
mitted to pass Republican Senate
Will be forced TO undertake revision
OF other schedules OF the tariff, in :
Guiding much more than the WOODEN
revision bill and the free lis, b,l.
which have gone through the House
Full Insursent Strength.
OF the affirmative votes cast for the
Gore motion ovcrthrowing the Finance
Committee sixteen were Republicans.
They were Senator'S Borah, Bourne,
Bristow. Brown. Clapp. Crawford.
Cummins. Dixon. Gronna. Jones. Ken
yon. La Toilette, Nelson, Poindexter,
Townsend and Works. This included
the full InsurGent strength OF tnir-
x teen and in addition senators Jones.
Nelson and Townsend. Senator Myers
was the only Democrat voting with
the Republicans against the motion.
Asthe result OF the Scnatc.s action,
Senator Penrose. before Adjournment.
called meeting OF the Finance Com
E1tttee. Of which lie is chairman FOR
1870 o'clock TO- morrow morning, and
he and other Regular Republicans pre-
dicted that when the Senate convenes
oil noon TO- morrow the wool measure,
together with the free list bin, VIII
be reported adversely.
Notable speeches on reciprocity were
made in both branches of Congress to-
day. Senator Root announcing that
he favored the agreement advocated
and explained his amendment to the
wood pulp and paper provision OF the
bill, around which amendment the reef
proci,y fight has centred and which
amendment Presiden, Taft opposes on
the ground that i, might jeopa rdize
the whole agreement Republican
1 Leader Mann, in the House. attacked
the Root amendment as a violation of
the Canadian reciprocity agreement.
To-day's night began the instant that
the wool revision bill appeared from
the House OF representatives. Sena-
Tor Gore, apparently with the approx
a. or Democratic leaders, moved that
the Finance Committee be instructed
to report the bill back to the Senate
on or before July 10. His admitted
purpose was TO prevent the Finance
Committee from holding the bill In
definitely or from falling to report It
at all. } .1I'
.l Lines Disrupted.
The result of the Gore motion was
to disrupt so completely the lines that
have formed in the Senate that II can
not be foretold now when a vote can
oe reached on the reciprocity bill, or
whether enough votes can be mustered
to pass 1t without amendment.
Senator'S Cummins Nelson, Crawford.
La Toilette. Jones and other Republi-
can Insurgents from Northwestern
States, who have opposed the reci-
elimination against the AGRICULTURAL
interests. declared that before a vote
would be permitted on the reciprocity
Dill they would demand that the other
schedules of the tariff be taken IN
and would Insist upon an attempt 10
tack many OF them upon the rectpro-
city measure.
HS RePuOIlCan leaders, notably
Senators Penrose. Smoot. GalIinger and
Lodge. all members of the Finance
Committee, declared that such lint
tation upon the actions or the Sena te's
Grief committee was unfair. uncalIed
Tor and unreasonable." Senator Pen
rose characterized the Gore resolution
as rank absurdity and shallow dema
gogism."
The Insurgent Republicans took IN
the fight by declaring that the Finance
Committee must either report out the
free list BILL the wool bill ana other
3 measures of tariff revision or prepare
. for long fight to secure a vote on
Canadian reciprocity.
Death to Recfprocity, Hl
The Republican leaders pointed out
that ii the wool and the free list bills
were reported to the Senate now. II
would he impossible to pass the reel :
procity bill. The fight over tariff re-
vision that is sure TO follow the in
lection Of tho three bills at one time
into the ope nSenate., would cndanger
Y the passage of the reciprocity bill
except in such a changed form that
the President might find himself un-
able to sign it. Ij,
II the Senate wants to defeat the
reciprocity BILL" said Santor Martin.
the Democratic leader, why should it
\ not be permitted to do SO If in its
Z judgment that is the best course to
4 pursue"
4.3 Then across the ais!N began an open
+ bidding for Republican support for a
general tariff revision. senator Bal