The Mena weekly star., 1911-07-27
RECIPROCITY
 WITH CANADA
Nv Vote of 57 to 23 Agreement With Canada Is Ratified at Last Causes Republicans
 to Divide.

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 United States and Canada embodie,
 in the reciprocity bill that prove,
 storm center in two sessions o
 Congress, passed the Senate toda, without amendment by a vote O 53 to 27. A majority of the Re. publcans voted against it. Of 5; votes for it B were Democrats anc 2i Republicans; of the 27 against il 24 were Republicans and three Democrats.
 This action settled the whole Canadian reciprocity question, SC far as Congress is concerned, and save for executive approval and the Canadian Parliment's ratification virtually made the pact the law of the land.
 At il:20 a demand for a quorum brought 78 tagging senators to their seats. McCumber, the blonde giant from North Dakota, offered his first-a free list amendment. And McCumber was voted down by a vote of 64 to f6. Knute Nelson of Minnesota marched into the open amendment field for grains and farm produce and 58 senators as- sisted in the obsequies of Senator Nelson.
 Little Simmons of North Carolina. with a side glance at Bailey sailed in with his plea for fresh meats and flour and cereals. They buried little Simmons softly at fl :50 by the usual organ chant of 64 to i6 Then Cummins smilingly presented an amendment on iron and steel and another on oilcloth and lino- leum. Somebody in the senate gave Cummins an extra vote for his winning smile, but the usual epi- taph of i7 to 64 was written on the great insurgents smile.
 La Toilette Beaten.
 Then La Toilette. the levathan of anti-reciprocity. sent forward those far famed amendments on the wool schedule and cotton schedule for which the senate has waited and the people have waited for weeks. And with unrufIled serenity the senate sat upon him, 6l to i5 and 63 to 15.
 La Toilette then offered a strange and apparently propriaory amend ment, making wood pulp and print papers free with all the world. But the time was not ripe for this ten- der concession and it won only fl votes.
 Bailey Is Dramatic.
 Then Bailey, with a dramatic defiance to his Democratic col leagues of the cotton states, play ed his masterstroke.
 T offer an amendment to put cot- ton bagging and ties upon the free list" was his appeal to the cotton Democrats Of Dixie.
 There was no stir from the sen- ators who re from the realm where cotton is king. But the line never wavered. The ranks were firm. Only Johnson of Alabama fell ln with Bailey, giving him ' votes to 62. The solid south was still solid for reciprocity.
 One dramatic incident of the Bailey amendment was significant. When the roll was called Dilling- ham of Vermont rose to explain thas he was paired with the senior senator from South Carolina, who, II he were present, would vote no. With almost a suggestion of pain in his voice, Bailey demanded:
 May ask through what source the senator from Vermont was au- thorized to make that statement?"
 To which Dillingham; responded:
 To senator Bacon of Georgia, to whom Senator Tillman referred me-"
 TilIman Leaves Bailey.
 Which means to those who know that the brave old radical from South Carolina, who, in his broken health of mind and body, followed Bailey almost blindly in his last at tendance of tho former session, has recovered at his home some of the splendid incredulity of his pro- eressive Democracy and comes back to his own place i'll the ranks ranks of the party.
 Then at 1 :28 the gad flies of amendment were all brushed away and the great race for the Canadian American derby was at last al hand. At i:36 the Canadian re- ciprocity had run the red gauntlet of all opposition and won by B to 27-2 to majority.
 Known Before Hand.
 Never was the finals of a great struggle so quietly enacted. There was not stir nor thrill from the beginning to the end of the ballot. There was not surprise in the roll call. The event predestined, predetermined and foreknown was accomplished at last. Every man voted as he was expected and scheduled to vote. Bailey, Clark and Simmons were the Democrats who left the ranks of the party. Brown. Poindexter and Works saved the consistency of tine insur- gent group by voting all through