The Washington herald., 1911-08-15
HOUSE DECLARES
FOR WOOL BILL
Continued from Page One.

have the bill, and even denied that
there was an official stenographer pres
ent to report the session. He crossed
over the Senate chamber to where one
of the clerks of the Finance Commit
tee vas standing and read him a SHARP
lecture on what he considered the irregu-
larity of the proceedings.
Senator Bailey expressed an opinion
that 1t wasn't important which house
had the papers, and there was more or
less debate as to which should have them,
and the question was finally left in abey-
ance. The action of Senator La Toilette
in falling to call up the wool bill and his
insistent demand that the Senate retain
custody of the farmers free list bill was
believed to be a part OF a plan to keep
control of these measures until he could
force some sort of an agreement for a
vote on the cotton bill.
Sharp Debate in Senate.
Senator Cummins spoke at length upon
his amendment to the cotton bill revising
the metal schedule. He denied that he
had been inconsistent in the matter of
reciprocity, and said that the Canadian
reciprocity measure was not Republican
policy. even if 1t had been fathered by a
Republican President. Its passage by
Democratic votes. he asserted, made this
fact clear. He pictured the committee
on resolutions in the next Republican
convention writing a plank which de-
clared for protection for the manufac-
turer and free trade for the farmer, and
doubted whether Republicans would SUD-
port such policy.
The debate was at times acrimonious
Mr.. Cummins and Mr.. Overman had a
sharp tilt. and when Senator Oliver drew
from Mr.. Cummins the admission that
he favored free pig iron the Iowa Sem
ator remarked that he had become used
to being insulted by the Senator from
Pennsylvania. In the course of his speech
Mr. Cummins made some remarkable
statements. In referring to the enormous
profits of the steel trust as a reason why
the duty should be reduced on steel prod
ucts he said:
I'VE have not yet come to the place
we can say that the United States Steel
Corporation shall not earn more than a
certain per cent on it's capital. We may
come to 1t in the future. We may yet
reach a point where it will be necessary
to deal in some such manner with these
great combinations which have crushed
out competition"
Adjournment Stfn in Doubt.
There were no indications yesterday of
a dennlte date being liked Tor vote 1t
is the opinion of most of the Senators
that. notwithstanding Senator La Fol-
lette's demand for vote. that a vote
will not be reached on the cotton bill at
this session. 1t Is believed that as soon
as President Taft gets a veto message
before Congress on. either Of the pending
tariff bills a resolution to adjourn will
be promptly passed, and IL there should
be any effort to block 1t Senators and
Representatives will break a quorum and
go home. When the possibility of this
situation was suggested to Senator La
Toilette he replied that a resolution to
adjourn was debatable.
Views in regard to the date of adjourn
ment are divergent, few of the leaders
contending that the Senate will adjourn
not later than Saturday, but the great
majority believing that the Senate will
run over into the middle of next week.