The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-06-28
Democrats Gain Control of
Senate by 80 to 10.
DRAMATIC ENDING OF THE DAY
Waterloo Comes In Vote
to RecOmmit Wool
Bill.
sHoRN oF.HIs POWER

United States Senate. They passed
motion offered by Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma, referring the House
wooden bill to the FinanceCommittee
with instructions that 1t be reported
back not later than July 10, by
vote of 80 to Is.
The passage of the motion was
made possible by the votes of sixteen
Republicans, thirteen of whom were
insurgents. One Democrat-Myers,
of Montana-voted against the mo-
ton, although his Republican col
league, Senator Dixon, voted for 1t.
Before the vote was taken, Senator
Penrose, chairman of the Finance
Committee and Republican Leader,
announced that II the George Gore
motion was passed he would take 1t
as a notification that the Republi-
can party is no longer in control of
the upper body of Congress.
BY the passage OF the resolution,
the entire tariff question is laid be-
fore this Congress, and chances for
early adjournment fade into obscUr-,
ity. The vote indicated, also. that
the Presidents chances for securing
vote on the Canadian reciprocity
bill, unamended by some other tariff
bill, are greatly lessened.
Some of the results of the revolu-
tionary action of tonight, briefly
stated, are:
For the first time. demonstration
was afforded of the fact that a COM
bination of Democrats and progress
sive Republicans can control the
Senate, and intends to control it on
tariff legislation.
Through Senator Cummins. the
tprogressives served notice that they
intend to attempt to revise the en-
tire Payne-Aldrich tariff act before
adjourning.
Only by linking reciprocity with
either the farmers free list bill or
the wooden schedule of the House is
1t likely to pass.
BY voting a lack of confidence in
its greatest committee, despite the
protests of Chairman Penrose, the
Senate has reached the point of
Emancipation achieved by the House
in March 1910 when 1t deposed
Speaker Cannon from the Rules
Committee by Democratic-insur-
gent combination.
Unlike the famous House revolu-
ton. the motion initiating the re-
form came to-day from q Democrat.
In the House, 1t was the resolution
of Representative George Norris, an
insurgent Republican, that deposed
the Speaker.
The vote on the Gore resolution
came as a dramatic close to one of
1.-THE most intensely exciting days in
the history of the Senate. The mo-
[tion had come without warning at
the conclusion of a speech by Sena-
tor Root, defending his amendment
to the reciprocity measure. AS soon
as the blind Senator had sent his
motion to the desk, II became APP
parent that, to preserve any appear
ance of consistency, the progressives
would have to vote for 1t. Before
he debate had progressed very far,
however, II was seen that the sup
port OF the progressives was based
largely on their opposition to reci-
procity and their certainty that by
securing a report on the wooden
schedule by July 10 they could
string out discussion OF the recipro-
city measure until the occasion Of
fered for a motion to amend It by
Joining on Democratic tariff bill.
In this way they were enabled to
avenge themselves on the President,
whose pet legislation is reciprocity,
and to preserve their record made
during the debate on the Payne bill
in 1909 when they demanded lower
duties on wool.
To counterfeit the double Joy OF
the progressives was the double woe
of Mr.. Penrose, until 8 o'clock to-
might the most powerful man in the
Senate and able to speak for It's
greatest committee. The passage OF
vote OF distrust of his committee
which took out OF his hands the sa-
cred right of pigeonholing legIsla-
ton, was one rebuke and one sor-
row, but the implied menace to rec
iprocity was a second.
satirically, Senator Cummins
quoted an interview with Senator
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