The pioneer express., 1911-02-10
SUBSIDY B PASSED
VOTE ON MEASURE is TIE &TIcL
DECIDED ~ THE VICE
PRESIDENT.
FIRST time IN HISTORY
Payment to American Ships for Car.
ryino Mails 10 Provided
One Democrat "Dis-
appears"

appears.
Washington, D. C. - For the first
time in the history of the government
the vice president of the United States
exercised his constitutional preroga
/. tive of casting vote to break ties in
connection with three successive roll
calls in the senate.
BY the first of the votes he saved
from impending defeat the ocean mail
/. for ship subsidy and by the third
forced an adjournment of the senate
on a vote having direct bearing on the
resolution looking to the election OF
senators by direct vote of the people,
The vote on the passage OF tine sub
sidy bill, both in committee of the
whole and in the senate proper, stood
80 ayes and 80 noes. and on adjourn.
ment, 81 ayes to 81 noes. On all
thee occasions the vice president
voted in the Affirmative.
Another notable occurrence in con.
nection with the vote on the subsidy
bill was the absence of the new Demo.
cratic senator from West Virginia,
Clarence Wayland Watson, who had
taken his seat early in the day as the
successor to Senator Elkins.
After the final result became known
the opponents of the bill, including
all Of the Democrats, realized that Mr..
! Watson's absence had prevented the
defeat of the bill. He was the only
Democrat present during any of the
roll calls whose vote was not cast
against the measure.
Votes on the Bill.
The two votes on the subsidy bill,
which were tie until the vice presi-
dent broke it, were as follows:
Yeas-Bradley, Brandegee, Briggs,
Burkett, Burnham, Burrows, Carter,
I Clark of Wyoming, Crane, Cullom,
Curtis, Dick, Dillingham;, Dixon, Du.
pont, Flint, Frye, Gallinger, Guggen-
helm, Hale, Hepburn, Jones, Kean,
Lodge. Lorimer, Nelson, Nixon, Oliver.
Page, Penrose, Perkins, Piles, Root,
Scott, Smoot, Stephenson, Warner,
Warren and Wetmore, all Republicans.
Total, 80.
Nays-Beveridge, Borah, Bourne,
Bristow, Brown, Burton, Crawford.
Cummins, Gamble, Gronna, La Fol
lette, McCumber and Smith of Mich.
igan. Republicans. Bacon, Bankhead,
Chamberlain, Clark of Arkansas; Cul-
berton, Fletcher, Foster, Frazier, John.
ston. Martin, Newlands, Overman,
Owen, Paynter, Percy, Shively, Sim.
mons, Smith of Maryland; Smith of
South Carolina; Stone, Swanson, Tai
iaferro, Taylor, Terrell, Thornton and
Tillman, Democrats. Total, 80.
Clapp, Davis, Sutherland and Wat
son did not vote and were not paired.
Mr.. Gronna, the new senator from
North Dakota, although a Republican,
voted against the bill on all roll calls.
Provisions of Measure.
AS passed the bill authorized the
payment by the postoffice department
for the carrying of mails of 81 per
mile on the outward voyage to second
class American built vessels plying
between American ports and ports in
the Philippines, Japan, China and Aus
tralasia, and between American
ports and ports in South America
south of the equator, and the payment
of 81 per mile to third class Ameri-
can ships similarly engaged. Stops at
American ports in the South Atlantic
are provided for.
It is explicitly declared that no con-
tract shall be awarded to any person
or corporation engaged in any com.
petitive transportation by rail or who
is employed in exporting or importing
merchandise in his own behalf. There
also is a provision limiting the expen.
ditures in any one year to $4,000, ,OO0
or to the surplus earnings of the ocean
mail carrying business.
BY a unanimous vote of the com
mittee on agriculture the house was
requested to discharge that committee
from further consideration of the re
port of the investigating committee
on the Ballinger-Pinchot case.
The three reports on the Ballinger
Pinchot case, one generating Nh. Bal
linger of any wrongdoing, and another
recommending his dismissal from the
cabinet and the third severely arraign
ing his administration of the interio,
department, thus go back to the house
and take their place on the calendar
Opponents of Mr.. Ballinger are thu:
placed in position to air the case il
the house.
In Honor of the Tafts.
Washington, D. c. - The secretar,
OF the navy and Mrs. Meyer gave ,
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