Evening star., 1911-08-19
TAFT'S VICTORY WON
Unable to Override VetoeS,
Congress Will Adjourn.
BY WEDNESDAY, AT LATEST
Cotton Bill, as Amended by Senate.
Will Pass Monday.
HOUSE VOTES SEAL FATE
Free List Bill Carelessly Drawn,
Says President Taft in Message
Vetoing Measure.
BY WEDNESDAY, AT LATEST
HOUSE VOTES SEAL FATE

1ht IIoLSS EpdJlIlhn OF uSD1QtfAtS anu
republican insurgents failed yesterday in
its efforts to pass the Underwood-La
Toilette wool bill and the farmers free
list bill over the veto OF President Taft.
The vote on the wool measure was o27 10
1923. with 23 republicans voting with the
solid democracy. On the free list meas
ure the vote was 226 to 127. with - in
surgents voting to override the President.
In neither case was the affirmative vote
the two-thrds of those voting and con-
sequently the constitutional provision was
not complied with and the Presidents 5
vetoes stand
BY unanimous consent there were three
hours allowed for general debate before
the vote on the wool bill. But when that
vote was announced and Interest was
eliminated from the contest, the free list
vote was taken after an interval Of twen-
ty minutes.
The republicans who voted with the
democrats on the wool bill We're Repre-
sentatives Akin of New York, Anderson,
Davis, Lindbergh, Steenerson and Vol
stead of Minnesota; Hanna and i1elgesen
| of North Dakota; Haughen, Hubbard and
| Woods Of Iowa; Jackson. Madison, Muir
dock and Young of Kansas: Kent of Cali
fornia: La Toilette and Warburton OF
Lenroot, Morrison and Nelson of Wis
conSin.
Switches on Second Vote.
There were several switches when the
record vote on the free list measure was
taken. Representatives Kinkaid and
Sloan OF Nebraska, Lafrerty OIL Oregon
and Morgan of Oklahoma, who had voted
! against overriding the veto on the wool
| BILL voted with the democrats on this
measure. Representative Miller Of Min
nesota, who had voted with .-.e demo-
Gratis on the wool measure, became regu-
| lar on the free list Dill.
| During the debate on the wool measure
four members of the President 5 cab net
Attorney General Wickersham. Secretary
of Commerce and Labor Nagel Secretary
| of War Stimson and Postmaster Cen
| eral Hitchcock-occupied seats on the
| floor.
| Last night the democratic members of
the ways and means committee determine /
| 10 end the long session. Monday the
House will pass the cotton bill as amend
ed in the Senate. containing the iron and
steel. chemical and cotton machinery
schedules, and the reciprocal bituminous
coal across the Canadian border provision,
and will send 1t to the President Tuesday.
Congress will not be held in session to
await his veto, which the House leaders
concede is certain to follow.
Adjournment by Wednesday.
Congress will adjourn Wednesday at
the latest" was the declaration of Ma
jority Leader Underwood. after the ways
and means committee conference. I'VE
have tried to put our tariff bills over the
Presidents head and have failed twice.
There is no use fighting 1t out any longer.
AS soon as we pass the cotton bill and
amendments We will be ready to go.
| The President may then veto the meas
ure. We will not be here to discuss it,
| President Taft gave the House foul
principal reasons for the non-approval o.
the formers free-list bill, as follows, II
his own language:
| Taft's Four Veto Reasons.
First. because it should not be consid
cred until the tariff board shall make re
| port upon the schedules it affects; second
| because the bill is so loosely drawn a:
10 involve the government in endless liti
cation and to leave the commercial com
munity in disastrous doubt; third be
cause it places the finished product on the
| free list, but retains on the dutiable lis
| the raw material and the machinery witt
| which such finished product is made, ano
thus puts at a needless disadvantage ouI
| American manufacturers; and fourth
that while purporting, by putting agri-
cultural 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 valuable concessions
/ which might be used by the executive to
expand reciprocity with that country in
| accordance with the direction of Con-
gress."
Follows Wool Reasoning.
| Mr.. Taft went on to say that the same
| reasons that impelled him to decline 10
sign the wool hill controlled him in this