The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-19
HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE TAFT'S
 WOOL BILL VETO
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 ---~-~-----~~------>-->>--- ~>~~'-~-~>-@-- to decline to sign the wool bill, con trol me in this case.'
 The President summarizes his objec- tions to the bill in these terms:
 "First, because it should not be con sidered until the tariff board shall re- port upon schedules it affects.
 Second. because the bill is so loose ly drawn as to involve the government in endless litigation and to leave the commercial community in disastrous doubt
 Third. because it places the finished Jroduct on the free list, but retains on the duitable list the raw material and the machinery with which such finished product is made, and thus puts at a needless disadvantage our Ameri- can manufacturers.
 Fourth, that while purporting, by putting agricultural implements, meat and flour on the free list, to reduce their price to the consumers, 1t does not do so, but only gives to Canada val uable concessions which might be used by the executive to expand reciprocity with that country in accordance with the direction of Congress"
 Having expressed at length in his message vetoing the wool bill, his con viction that tariff legislation should wait the report of the tariff board, the President in today's message, passes at once to a consideration of the man ner in which the free list bill Is drawn, and finds that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty" impos- ing a "heavy burden on the administra- tive branch of the government" in addition to creating disastrous uncer- tainty in commercial circles" and a "burdensome amount of litigation"
 The consideration led him to the conclusion that the bill, while ap- parently very simple and affecting only a few articles, is in reality so loose in it's phraseology that it would affect hundreds of items in the existing tariff act. Concedng the wisdom of it's gen eral policy, the paragraphs of the bill ought to be rewritten in definite and specific terms"
 Having reviewed the various clauses to the construction of which he ob : jected the President says:
 'The truth is that the language is so ambiguous that it is impracticable for the treasury department to give an eN- act estimate as to the diminution in revenue which will follow its passage f
 The President said that another eff feet of the bill would be ito break down altogether the classification on which the arrangement in many of the present tariff schedules is based" While the
 
 of the users, in whose favor the class- fcation purports to be made, will re- ceive more benefit than the fra mers of the law may have intended, 1t is that many who do not belong to the class intended to be favored will import ar ticles suitable for the prescribed use under the general terms of the statute but will use them for other and gen eral purposes" which leads MT. Taft to observe If there were not other reasons for withholding my approval of the bill, this one would be all- sufficient.
 After it had been read MT. Underwood moved that the free list be passed notwith- standing the veto, the following, 20minutes discussion, led by Mir. Payne and MT. Un- derwood, the roll was called, the vote be- ing 226 ayes to 127 hayes, much less than the necessary two-thrds majority. On the free list bill the republicans who voted to overrule the veto, who did not so vote on the wool bill, were:
 French of Idaho, Knkead of Nebraska, Lafferty of Washington and Morgan of Oklahoma
 The republicans who voted to overrule the wool bill veto, but not the free list veto, were Miller of Minnesota and Young oi Kansas.
 Republican Leader Mann presented a privileged resolution. It proposed to send the cotton bill as amended by the Sen ate back to the Senate and submitting that it was in contravention of the consti- tuition, which provides that all revenue legislation originate with the House. Dem- ocratc Leader Underwood's motion 60 table this resolution was sustained, 1S5 to Al.
 Then the House adjourned until II . clock tomorrow morning. At 10 a. m. the House ways and means committee will meet to act on the cotton bill and Senate amendments. The House is ex- pected to pass the bill as it passed the Senate after the ways and means com lnittee reports it Monday.
 Debate Starts Early
 The wool tariff revision bill vetoed by President Taft was called up in the House early. Democratic Leader Undei- wood moved that the House on recon- sideration pass the bill over the Presl- dents veto.
 The House agreed upon a three hours debate on Mir Underwood's s motion Rep JarAes of Kentucky, demo- crat, led off in advocacy of Congress, the bill over the veto.
 The support of the insurgent republi- cans in the House in the democratic plan to override the veto was foreshad-