The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-08-19
STOLE A MARCH
Regular Republicans Leave Senate
Chamber Putting ihe Democrats
In COMPLETE CONTROL

Democrats Pass the Cotton BIZ De.
spite Rage Of the Insurgents, who
Charge Treason on the Part of the
Democrats and Denounce Action of
Regular Wing of Their Party. ..
"A shrewd move by the regular Re-
publicans, as unexpected as 1t was
effected, Thursday suddenly threw
the Democrats into complete control
OF the Senate in their own right and
forced them absolutely to abandon
their coalition with the progressive
|, Repub blicans. Out of the chaos and
the uproar, came a bill to revise the
cotton schedule of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law.
1t was the bill as passed by the
House, but saddled with amendments
to revise the iron and steel, the cot
ton machinery and chemical sched-
ules of the tariff law, coupled with
a provision for reciprocal free trade
in bituminOus coal across the Cana
dian border Democratic votes alone
were cast in favor of the bill. The
regular Republicans absented them
!. selves, deliberately, from the Cham
! ber.
4 The insurgents, taken completely
+ by surprise, were thrown into a rage.
Alternately they denounced what
they termed the treason of the DEM
:. ocrats and inveigled against the Reg
ular Republicans for the part they
| had played in the new combination,
| which had brought about a revolu-
ton in the Senate as startling and,
4 sensational as the coalition which
earlier had robbed the regular Re-
publicans OF tieir supremacy in tho
= Senate.
The insurgents invoked all-but-
forgotten rules in an effort to stop
votes The insurgents charged that
the Democrats had broken faith, al
though in caucus Wednesday night
the latter had determined to carry
through an insurgent-Democr
prog on the cotton bill, which
would have included the adoption OF
O. LaFollette substitute for the House
=. measure. They insisted the Demo-
Gratis had entered into IN agree
ment or understanding with the reg
ulars to leave the progressives in the
: lurch.
II Whatever the agreement whatev-
l Ter the understanding the results ac-
complished we're both definite and de-
J. cisive. The Democrats found them
y selves in position where for the
: sake of party consistency they had to-
disregard completely their previous
arrangements with the insurgents.
This arrangement was based upon
: the belief that the House bill would
be defeated and then the Democrats
and insurgents would eomhinas to-
: pass a LaFollette measure, just what
. was done with the wool schedule
- The regular Republicans made no
! attempt to conceal their delight at
having put the insurgents in . posi-
{ ton where they were compelled to
0 vote against cotton revision at this
time. Senator Cummins ralliell bis
: insurgent comrades to vote against
o his own amendment for an iron and
a steel revision, when the amendment
a was offered by Senator Bacon. Sena-
q tor Bristow helped to defeat his own
:. amendment for a revision of the sugs
S ar schedule, when 1t was offered in
: his absence by Senator Jones, Of
+ Washington.
= Progressive Republican Leader La
n Toilette declared it was impossible
for the insurgents to vote for the
: had agreed that if their bill Was de-
|, feated they would be willing to sup
|, port the LaFollette measure. AS the
e progress Of votes showed that the
o Democrats had been given a clear
= majority by the absence Of the regu-
o lar Republicans, the insurgents set
d out to get vote on the LaFollette
: compromise bill, which, it had been
expected, would be adopted in place
: of the House bill.
l., Senator LaFollette finally offered
e his bill as a substitute for the House
bill and the amendments that had
: been added to it The LaFollette
substitute secured no votes, howev-
er, but those of insurgents. Then
came the final vote on the House
cotton bill. Only the Democrats vot-
ed for it., but as the roll call pro-
i igressed it bcame apparent that many
were absent or not voting, slipping
back into the cloak rooms before
f their names were reached. Those
g who kept track of the vote realized
S that the cotton bill had received a.
. favorable vote-29 to 19.