The Ely miner., 1911-06-23
WOOL BILL PASSES
REPUBLICANS FROM NORTHWEST
JOIN WITH DEMOCRATS IN
VOTE ON MEASURE.
ALL AMENDMENTS ARE DEFEATED
Tariff Revision Act Goes Through
After Five Hours Debate.-One
Democrat Votes Against

Washington, D. C. = With large
majority of the Republican members
of the house from the Northwest vot-
ing for the Democratic wool tariff bill
which passed the house, the indica-
tions favoring action by the senate on
the wool tariff revision appears to be
unusually rosy.
If the Republican members of the
senate from the Northwest vote in
line with their brethren from the same
section in the house there will be a
smash in the wool and wooden sched.
ule before the special session of CON.
gress is brought to a close.
All the Republican members from
Minnesota who voted, except Repre-
sentative Stevens of st. Paul, record
ed in favor of the Democratic wool
bill. Mr.. Nye was not present, but
was paired against the bill Repre-
sentatives Anderson, Davis, Lindbergh,
Steenerson, Miller and Volstead voted
for the bill.
Is Rap at Reciprocity.
These votes, and some of the others
cast by members from the Northwest,
contain names of members who an.
nounce their purpose to vote for every
tariff revision scheme which promises
to embarrass the ultra protectionists
who are supporting the Canadian reci.
procity bill.
Representative Hanna of North Da.
kota and Martin of South Dakota were
not present. Mr.. Helgesen of North
Dakota voted for the bill, and Repre-
sentative Burke of South Dakota
against it. 1t is practically impossi
BILE, however, to get any line on the
probable course of the insurgent sena.
tors on the wool bill by the votes OF
the Republicans from the states repre-
sented by insurgents in the senate.
The Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kansas
delegations in the house split on the
wool bill, some of the presumed sup
porters of the insurgent low tariff
program voting against the bill, while
some of the protectionists of the
house, who have denounced the Cana
dian bill, were found voting for the
Democratic wool bill.
AS a result o; the vote on the wool
bill in the house, however, the predic
tion is freely made that a wool bill
perhaps making less radical reductions
in the duties, can be passed by the
senate at this session.
Bill Passes o21 to 100.
The house of representatives by q
vote of 221 to 100 passed the bill pro
viding for reduction of the duty on
wool and manufacturers of wool
Twenty-four Republicans voted with
the Democrats for the passage of the
measure and one Democrat, Represen
tative Francis of Ohio, voted against
it. Almost five hours were spent by
the house in debate.
After the bill had passed a message
was read from President Taft in re
sponse to request which had been
made for certain information from the
tariff board in regard to the woolen
question. The message stated that the
desired information could not be fur
nished at this time
The Republicans who voted for the
bill were Representatives Anderson,
Anthony, Campbell, Davis, of Mime
sofa; French, Haugen, Helgesen, Jack
son, La Toilette, Lenroot, Lindbergh,
Madison, Miller, Morse, Murdock, Mel
son, Norris, Rees, Sloan, Steenerson,
Stephens, of California, Volstead,
Woods of Iowa and Young of Kansas.
What the Bill Does.
The bill places a duty of 20 per cent
ad valorem on raw wool imports, as
against an average duty of a little
more than "A per cent ad valorem un-
der the present law. On partly manu-
factured wool and on products manu-
featured in whole or in part from wool
the average duty under the proposed
law would be about 42.5 per cent ad
valorem, as compared with the present
average ad valorem duty of more than
80 per cent.
The ways and means committee has
estimated that the bill would reduce
the annual revenue under the wooden
schedule of the tariff by little more
than $1,000,000. The bill prescribes
that it shall be in effect January
next.