Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-21
HOUSE REDUCES
TARIFF ON WOOL
Underwood Bill Gets "a
Republican Votes.

Washington, June 21.-Asserting that
they had undermined protection, de.
stroyed it and had started the coun-
try on the more equitable line of tariff
for revenue only, the house Democrats
passed the Underwood wool tariff re
vision bill, reducing by 30 per cent the
rates of the Payne-Aldrich law.
The victory was the more decisive in
that t~wenty-four Republican Progress
sives voted for the Underwood bill. But
one Democrat, Francis Of Ohio, who
halls from a sheep growing district,
voted against it. The vote on final
passage was 221 to 100.
Democratic joy was quickly changed
to chagrin as Speaker Clark, taking q
document from the table. announced
that a message had been received from
the president. In the message the
president said that the tariff board had
not completed its report on the wool
schedule and that for this reason he
found it impractical to comply with
the resolution recently passed by the
house calling for the data on wool col
lected by the board. The presidents
opportune announcement that the re-
port of the board would be forwarded
to congress in December provoked ap-
plause among the Republicans, who
jeered at the Democrats, the house as
q whole having In mind assertions re-
peatedly made by Republicans in de-
bate that 1t was unwise to attempt a
revision of schedule X in advance OF a
scientific statement as to conditions by
the tariff board.
Twenty-seyen Republicans jumped
the reservation and voted for the Fem
ocratic bill. Most Of them were in
surgents, some of them near insur-
gents, while two Republicans, Anthony
and Campbell of Kansas. have hitherto
been classed as regulars.
Representative Berger of Milwaukee,
Socialist, stood by the bill, as did Rep
resentative AIKEN of New York, who Is
not classified politically. Representa-
tive Francis of Ohio, who comes from
a big wool district, was the only Dem
ocrat to desert his party. The Repub-
licans in addition to Anthony and
Campbell who voted for the bill were
Anderson, Lindbergh, Stevenson, Hol-
stad, Davis and Miller Of Minnesota,
French of Idaho, Haugen and Woods
of Iowa, Jackson, Madison, Rees, Muir
dock and Young of Kansas; Helgesen
of North Dakota, Kent and Stephens
of California, Lenroot, Nelson and
Morse of Wisconsin; Norris and Sloan
of Nebraska, Wedemeyer of Michigan
and La Toilette and Warburton of
Washington.
The last stand of the Republicans
against the bill was made on a mo-
ton of Representative Payne of New
York that the measure be sent back to
the committee on ways and mean
with instructions to that committee to
hold 1t until a report on the wool
schedule was made by the admins
tration board. This was defeated by
q strict party vote.
The wool bill goes TO the senate with
the prestige Of having passed the
house by a big majority.
ihe uepale piouShI d heW oIatoT tV
public notice. He is Representative
Gray, an Indiana Democrat. Mr.. Gray
Is an exhorter, and for five minutes he
gave an exhibition of himself In COM
plete action. He dressed down" In
Gle Joe Cannon and Mr.. Mann, criti-
cised the bill and conveyed the dis
tinct impression that he was going to
vote against it. When the time came
for action, though, Gray followed the
crowd behind Leader Underwood.