The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-19
House and Senate Agree on
Date for Closing Extra
Session -
cabinet OFFICERS
ON FLOOR OF HOUSE
Speaker Clark Defends His
Party on Floor and is
Willing to Go Be-
fore the People

/ NASf1l4NAr1 IN, aug. 10 puBFS SS
will adjourn on Wednesday. Practi-
cal agreement TO this end was reach
ed by the House and Senate tonight
The cotton bill, which carries also
revis!ons OF the iron and steel and
chemical schedules. alone stands In
the way, The Ways and Means Com
fnittee OF the House tonight decided
TO report this bill tomorrow with
favorable recommendation as 10 the
r aIla.s nd nlv IA
The iron, steel and chemicals were
attached to 1t by the Senate in the
nolitica! hoeus pocus yesterday. Under
the rule the report must lay over for
a day. But II will be taken up arst
thing Monday morning and after Two
days debate Will be adopted and be
sent to the President. Adjournment
Will follow inm ediately thereafter.
IN the meantime-to- MORO w--the
House will pass the revised statehood
regulation adopted by the Senate late
this afternoon.
With this disposed OF the Senates
work for the extra session is com
pleted, Nothing remains for the up
per chamber to 90 now but vote for
adjournment. Senators began leaving
the city to- night.
A swift current toward adjourn
nent set In to-day In rapid success
sion came the failure Of the House 10
override the Presidents veto Of the
wool bill-the vote standing 227 to
i2s-less than the necessary two
thirds.
Cabinet Officers on Floor
Then came the Presidents Veto of
the free list bill and tbs failure to
override that, too, The vote standing
226 to l27. The proposed effort to
override the statehood veto was aban-
| doned and Congress at last had but
one measure. the cotton bali between
| 1t and the finish.
| Comparison of the Cummins steel
and iron revision shows that il diff
/ fers little In rates from the WAYS and
Means COMMITTEES. Cunlmins retains
the Payne Adrteh classification which
the Democrats would have changed,
-Four cabinet officers. Secretaries
Stirnson and f'agei, Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock and Attorney General
1 Wickersham were on the floor Of the
House while the votes We're being
taken.
/ Lenroot. progressive. Wisconsin
.@Irged all Republicans who had sup
. ported the bill to override the veto
saying It would be charged against
sthem that failure to do 50 was
/ through fear of losing ability to Sc
cure patronage
/ AT times. the debate grew bitter
/ Republican leader Mann objected to
! CLAYTON putting something in the re
cord and Clayton remarked.
THE uniform ili-manners Of the
( gentleman from Illinois are known to
rail- the HNDse"
Clark Takes Floor.
Speaker Clark made the plea to
over-ritle the wool biil veto Calling
4 Underwood to the chair he went upon
I the floor. receiving an ovation as great
/ rs he received. when, earlier in the
day, Austin, Tennessee. nominated him
for President.
/ "The remarkable growth of our
/ prosperity since 1860" he observed,
/ must be considered In connection with
the growth in population. No Repub-
| hcan has proclaimed that Republicans
| begot that increase in population. The
| Democrats have had as much to do In
| creasng the wealth OF the country as
| the Republicans, To say the Demo-
! Gratis want 10 destroy the prosperity
| of this country Is lie. The Presi-
| dent has raised an Issue that will rage
| with undated fury until the next cleo
! ton. | lost al hat on his veto because
until two or three days ago | did not
believe he would do IT, Republicans
say we tried To put the President in
hole. He has done it for himself
! Whenever q man attempts to do
| anything for the people he is called by
the interests demagogue. When he
| defends the interests he is called a
/ statesman take my stand with the
! consumers We took the wool sche-
/ dule first because the President said
] II ought to be revised. We faced. a
| hostile Senate and hostile President
| We welcome this issue he has raised
| We will so back to the people with IT,
! l have heard 1t stated l should listen
! TO the beating OF the sheep in my dis
| trict- Instead Of that | hear the cry
I OF ninety three millions of people for
| cheaper and better clothes"