The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-09
FREE LIST BILL
PASSED HOUSE
LAST NIGHT
Long Debate Ended With a Vote
of 236 to 1909
DEMOCRATIC VOTE WAS SOLID
Twenty-Three Republicans Favored
the Measure-Not an Amend
ment Allowed
DEMOCRATIC VOTE WAS SOLID

Washington, May 9.-The free list
bill passed the House a few minutes
after 10 o'clock last night after parlla-
mentary struggle beginning little af-
ter noon. The vote was 236 to 109,
all the Democrats voting for the bill
and % Republicans supporting the
measure. Not a single amendment
was allowed, but every chance pos.
sible was given to offer amendments
and TO discuss them providing they
were germane to the items carried by
the bill
The Republicans assaulted the Dem
ocratic position from paragraph to
paragraph all day, and in all upward
of $50 amendments were offered, most
of them by Mr.. Mann of Illinois, the
minority leader Again and again the
amendment against the application of
the terms of the bill to the goods OF
any country that should discriminate
against American merchandise when
exported to that country, was offered,
to be thrust aside. The first test
vote of the day came on an appeal
from the decision OF Speaker Clark
that a motion by Mr. Mann to recon-
anti the bill with instructions to Ways
and Means to report the bill back
with the retaliatory amendment add
ed. This vote having been disposed
Of the passage of the bill was only a
matter of form.
The Democratic team work all day
was fine and was not married by a
single mistake. The only visible dis.
sent came from Mr. Rucker of Colora-
do, who could not sit still and see the
cattle industry of his State voted
away, and he offered an amendment
TO strike out the clause providing for
free meats. He said that this was
probably the most unpopular amend
ment that any man could have the
temerity to propose and probably it
would have but one vote on his side.
II was lost with yell.
Mr.. Mann offered many ingenious
amendments. One was directed
against conyict-made goods, which
was promptly voted down, and as
promptly Mr.. Mann jeered and taunt-
ed the majority with voting to favor
convicts against free citizens.
Mr.. Mann proposed free tin so that
free meats might come in manufacture
ed He asked for free iron and steel
He demanded free dyes and tanning
articles so that free hides might be
tanned here. He offered an amend
ment that no articles manufactured in
establishments abroad where the
eight-hour law was not observed
should be admitted. He asked foi
free hemp to go with cotton ties anC
! bagging. He urged free macaroni anC
yermicelli together with free flours
and biscuits. He tried to get free
pineapples, free olive oil, free sponges
free paris green, free chemicals fol
making wood pulp paper, free castor
oil, free soaps, free spectacles, anC
goggles, free grindstones, and score:
of similar things and not one would
the other side concede.
Like a stone wall the Democrats
either whoOped the amendment.
down or swept them like dead flies of
the Clerks desk. over and over Mr.
Mann offered in his retaliatory amend
ments the proposition that the terms
of the bills should not apply to an,
country that imposed restrictions OF
wood pulp coming into this country
but this was swept along with tn,
tide. The Democrats were bent OF
passing their first tariff bill withou
the dotting of an ] or the crossing 0
a T and they did it,
Mr. Hobson asked Mann finally /
he would vote for bill embracing al
the amendments he was offering L
the Free List Bill
NO would not" said Mann, poo
mo, would not, said Mann, mo
for any one of them"
THAT SHOWS the sincerity of you
amendments" said Mr.. Hobson.
The Republicans who voted for tn
bill were Anderson, Davis, Lindberi
Miller, Volstead and Stevenson @
Minnesota; Anthony, Jackson, Mad
son and Murdoch of Kansas; Ham
! and Helgeson of North Dakota, HUI
bard of Iowa, Kent of California
Kopp, Lenroot, Morse and Nelson q
Wisconsin; La Toilette and Warbul
ton, Norris OF Nebraska, Roberts c
! Nevada-23.
; Victor Berger, Socialist, and Alike
of New York, Independent, voted fo
/ it.
} Another Free List bill was Intro
+ duced in the House today. It's authC
is representative Morse, a Wisconsi
IL Republican insurgent. 1t would e,
empt from dut PARTICLES imported fc
y use in the construction and equipmer
r. of pulp and paper mills and in tn
Y manufacturing of min and naner