The Sentinel=record., 1911-02-15
HOUSE VOTES
 RECIPROCITY
TAFT's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IS ADOPTED BY DECISIVE VOTE
 OF 221 TO e2.
Mccall Bill Will Now Go to the Sen. ate, Where President Hopes to Avoid FiIibrster and to See
 it Pass.

Washington, Feb. 1f.--President Taft's reciprocity agreement with Canada was ratified in the house of representatives tonight through the support of an almost solid democratic vote.
 The Mccall bill carrying the agree Rlent il.tc effect was passed 221 to 92. A maj rity of the republicans present voted against the measure, the divis ion being 78 ayes and S7 noes. The democratic vote was 143 ayes and orly noes. A majority of the repub- lscan insurgents present voted for the bill
 The Mccall bill now goes to the senate. What it's fate will be in that body is problematical at this time. President Taft believes if a filfbuster can be avoided and vote taken the bill will pass. He is insistent that the senate shall act and has indicateed that he would call an extra session Of cor g ess if it does uot dc so
 The passage of the bll in the house came at the end of long debate, wfita a. times was as bitter as has been heard on the floor of that cham Der in years. The rgnt was confined almost wholly to the republican side. Demo, stic members joined in occa- sionally and taunted the majority members for their lack of unity The democratic leaders also put in the claim that the reciprocity agreement was good democratic doctrine and said they were glad to welcome President Taft and many of the house republic ans into the democratic fold The suggestion came from the republic an side that Mir. Taft and Champ Clark might be rivals for the next democratic presidential nomination.
 MT Clark claimed that in con test Of that sort he would win hands dopFn.n
 A final vote was reached only through the application of cloture rule which shut eff amendments and even dispensed with the reading of the bill
 This procedure was decided upon only after Mir c. Mccall, in charge of the bill, had failed to get unani mons consent to do away with calen. dar Wednesday tomorrow If that had been secured, he said. he would have been glad to let the debate continue Tor another legislative day. The re- pnblicans opposed to the bill fought the rule to the last. denouncing it in caustic language, They directed their fire especially against the democrats and accused them, on the eve of go- ing into power in the house, of en- forcing gag rule as drastic as any thing against which they had so eio- quently inveighed in the past The democrats laughed at this and seemed thoroughly to enjoy the discontinue of their old-time enemies.
 Champ Clark took Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, to task Tor complaining of the undue haste, with which the hause was acting on the reciprocity measure The speaker to-be said the democrats had sat for years, bound and gagged while the gentleman from Pennsylvania and ms associates had brought in rules ana had rushed legislation through With out giving an opportunity for amend ment
 Under the cloture rule, whica was adopted by an overwhelming vote, the only loophole left to the opponents oi the measure was motion to recon init the bill to committee or tne whole house with instructions to re- port certain amendments, When the time came to do this half dozen members were clamoring for recogni- ton.
 Mir. Dalzell was recognized py Speaker Cannon. He proposed tha, meat and meat products, flour, pre- pared cereals, lumber and several oth- CT articles be put on the free list Ine democrats were not shaken by tnis and the motion was lost, 114 to lsl.
 The cloture rule had been agreed to previously by vote of 19S to lffs Y has been apparent for several days that the reciprocity measure would have an overwhelming majority ID the house. This seemed to make l's opponents all the more bitter. Ihe feeling displayed in the house today was so intense at times that 1t sur