The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-19
HOUSE FAILS ID OVERRIDE TAFT'S | WOOL BILL VETO Adjournment Now Virtually Fixed For Early Next
 Week SESSION FULL OF
 DRAMATIC EVENTS
  Champ Clark Given Remarkable Ova- ton by Democratic Colleagues. Taft Explains Reasons for Yetoing Free List Bill

1 Washington August 1S-In a succession of dramatic events the democratic House of Representatives today met defeat in its supreme effort to pass the wool and free list bills over the Presidents vetoes and virtually fixed upon adjournment ef Congress early next week. The House on Monday will agree to the cotton tariff revision bill as amended in the Senate, but will not hold Congress in session to await the certain veto of that measure. The Senate cleared away all it's business and adjournment is assured, in the opin-
 ion of leaders of both parties in both houses, by next Wednesday at the latest.
 Tie democratic House majority, with a lgreat demonstration of enthusiasm, mar lsliaed it's ranks for the great battle to Icverride the President and went down ' with flying colors. The party leaders failed to muster enough insurgent repub- llican support to pass the tariff legislation lover the Presidents head.
 Tonight the democratic members of the lways and means committee determined io end the long session. Monday the House will pass the cotton bill as amended in the Senate, containing the iron and steel, lchemical and cotton machinery schedules and the reciprocal bituminous coal across the Canadian border provision and will send it to the President Tuesday.
 Congress will adjourn on Wednesday at the latest,' was the declaration of Ma jority Leader Underwood after the ways land means committee conference. l We have tried to put our tariff bills over the Presidents head and have failed twice. There Is no use fighting it out any longer. As soon as we pass the cotton 1 bill and amendments we are ready to go. The President may then veto the meas ure We will not be here to discuss it.e
 Wish Immediate Adjournment Strenuous efforts were made by Sen. ate democratic and republican leaders in conference with MT. Underwood
 Speaker Clark and other democratic
 p etnbers ta af4As ,e,.ss ses sa .tti 10 d ctsss tomorrow night, but owing to d de-
 sire of the members of the ways anl means committee to study features of the Senate iron and steel bill and chemical schedules before concurring. in them it was agreed to dispose ot tic { final business early next week. Failure of the attempt of the demo- cratic House to override the veto came in day filled with stirring incidents. The close of the debate on the motion
 of MT. Underwood to pass the wool bill
 over the veto found Champ Clark, speaker of the House, and an aspirant for the presidency, pleading the cause of his fellow democrats from the foor l surrounded by a throng of his cor leagues who cheered him vigorously. The galleries were filled and the speak er as he concluded, was given a dem onstration that for several minutes de- layed the roll call.
 On the motion to pass the wool meas ure over the veto, there were 227 affirm ative votes, 22 of them insurgent re- l pubicans and one independent re- | publican, while the negative votes were le9. While the motion 10 override the vote on the free list failed of two thirds majority, the vote being 226 to 127.
 During the three hours of debate on the wool bill. the corridors of the cap- itol reverbated time and again With l shouts of approval and derision from the floor Spirited discussions between members were frequent. Representative Mann and Representative Clayton of l Alabama had wordy encounter. which | for a moment had a threatening as- pect. The incident was precipitated when the minority leader objected to the Alabama members request to have a newspaper editorial printed in the | Congressional Record. | That the administration was keenlM watching developments was evidenceA in the presence on the floor of the | House of Messrs. Wickersham. Hitkh- cock, Nagel and Stimson of the Pret;- l ident's cabinet All of them kept a close tally the roll call until 1t
 was apparent that the democrats could not rally the necessary two thirds ma jority.
 The climax of Speaker Clark's ad- dress was reached when he said
 The President has a right to veto
 this bill if he wants to. l am not
 quarrelling with him. l am lamenting , his lack of wisdom as his personal friend He has raised an issue that will rage with unabated fury until the
 close of the polls in November, 1912"
 Clark Applauded
 This was the signal for such an out
 burst as seldom has been known in the halls of Congress 1t was a gen uine demonstration from his fellow democrats. Again and again as he pro- ceeded the democrats aplauded. cheered and pounded their desks until Democratic Leader Underwood. who occupied the chair for the first time this session. almost despaired of main- | taning order.
 Then the roll was called. The 2s | insurgents who stood on their former | record and voted to pass the wool bill over the Presidents head were:
 Anderson, Davis, Lndbergh, Miller, Steenerson and Volstead of Minnesota, Hanna anu Helgesen of North Dakota. l Haugen, Hubbard and Woods of Iowa, | Kent of California, Norris of Nebraska. Jackson Madison Murdock and Young of l Kansas IaFoilette and Warburton of Washington, Lennroot. Morse and Nelson of Wisconsin. Akin of New York, inGe- | pendent republican, also voted to pass the bill over the veto
 The eight insurgent republicans who voted with their colleagues for the con ference report last Monday, but who de- serted them to support the veto of the | President were:
 Wye of Minnesota, Esch Kopp and Da- | vidson of Wisconsin, Rees of Kansas. I stephens of California, stone and kinkea.l of Nebraska
 | No sooner had the result been an- I nounced than the assistant secretary from I the White House arrived with the Presi- , dents veto of the free list bill. In his message vetoing the farmers
 free list, President Taft, after an ex- tended review of the measure, declares