The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-21
Wool Bill Passes
 House 22I To 100
Twenty-Six Republicans Vote For it and Only One Demo-
 crat in the Negative
CUTS TARIFF IN HALF
In Effect Next January Unless tho Senate Blocks It-Tafts Mes
 sage Arrives Late.

Washington. June 21-After a life
 less front of opposition on part of th Republicans, the Democrats have pass ed their Wool bill "a large major ity. The Republicans in the fina showdown mustered hardly more thar one-fourth of the House. For the hil were 194 Democrats, 26 Republicans
 and 1 Socialist. Against it were 99 Re
 publicans and l Democrat-the latter
 being Representative Francis of Ohio
 who comes from a sheep-raising dis
 trict. The result Is great victory
 for the new majority and is the thirC
 that it has sent to the Senate in com
 pliance with the pledge of the party
 to correct the distortions of protection ts,
 in the Payne-Aldrich tariff, the first
 being the Reciprocity Agreement bill
 and the second the Free List bill
 The most favorable vote of the day
 for the Republicans came on MT
 Mann's motion to recommit the bill
 to be reconsidered in Ways and Means
 after the Tariff Board shall have fur
 nished the House with the data on
 the Wool industry that are now being collected. The motion was defeated
 by a vote of 1S9 to 11S, many Repub-
 licans who stood with Mann lining
 up for the bill on final vote.
 The most suggestive thing in the
 vote Is the fact that men who never
 before repudiated a Republican tar
 if measure voted with the Democrats
 The Kansas delegation voted solidly
 for the bill, and Minnesota, Iowa and
 Wisconsin gave strong support to it.
 The Republicans who voted for the
 bill were Anthony|of Kansas. Anderson
 of Minn., Campbell of Kansas, Davis
 of Minnesota, French of Idaho
 Haughen of Iowa, Heighsen of North
 Hnlr Tonl of ant nf California, LaFollette of Wisconsin, Lenroot of Wisconsin, Lindbergh of
 Minnesota. Madison of Kansas, Miller of Minnesota, Morse of Wisconsin,
 Norris of Nebraska Sloan of Nebras- ka, Steenerson, Stephens and Volstead Wood of Iowa and Young of Kansas.
 There was a rustic of surprise at thony and Campbell of Kansas, who have heretofore stood immovably with the standpatters.
 There were one or two dramatic in- cidents of the debate. The Republi- cans were slow to offer amendments and the Democrats hardly got their steam roller oiled during the afer- noon, there was so little use for it, but it worked in good order whenever it was brought out.
 Victor Murdock of Kansas, made fine fight for free "tops" and gave nice explanation of the distinction be- tweena worsteds and woolens-combed and carded wool-and then appealed to the Democrats to use their mag nificent opportunity actually to re- duce the cost of living in keeping with necticut attempted to pierce Murdock's armor two or three times, but it stood proof against his onslaughts.
 MT Hill created a diversion by ex- hibiting to the House a, beautiful Rus sian shawl which he said he had bought for s25 and on which he paid 60 per cent duty, too little by far, he claimed. Such shawl would have cost in the United States, he declared, fully $150 and we could not duplicate it. The argument from the shawl was that if the Democratic bill should be- come law we could never hope to make any such fabric in the United States. MT. Hill also showed some fine thread that he had bought abroad and which we could not and never had duplicated in this of course never would if the bill should go on the statute books.
 Representative Gray of Indiana of fered an amendment to replace raw wool on the free list, and to recommit the bill to the committee with fntruc-
  to 20 per cent. ad valorem. This was lost.
 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 under the present law. On partly wool and on products manufactured in whole, or in part from wool, the average duty under the proposed law would be about 425 per cent. ad valorem as compared with the present average ad valorem duty ,f more than 90 per cent. The Ways and Means committee has estimated he bill would reduce the annual rev. snue under the woolen schedule of the ,ariff by little more than $1,000,00 The bill prescribes that it shall be n effect on Jan. 1 next, but it is not believed that the bill will pass the Sen ate at this session.
 After the roll call had been taken md the House was on the point of | ldjourning suddenly attention was ,alled to the fact that message had | come from the White House while the | debate was on. It was the Presi- l or data from the Tariff board on | wool, and the President informed the | House that the work Of the board had | such little way now that l t would not be practicable to bring | onward any new light on the subject l lntil December.
 The House received the message with a hearty laugh. Mr. Cooper of | asked why it was that the message should have been suppressed | apparently until after the vote on the ill, and MT. Mann explained that he Il nd Mr. Underwood had looked it over M nd decided that as it came in while II he House was in debate and the II peaker was out of the chamber, they II would not call attention to it until II fter the bill had been voted on. Il
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