The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-15
HOUSE PASSES The WOOL BILL
CONFERENCE REPORT ADOPTED
NJ 4 VOTE ar 2tH TO M.
The Vote More Than Susuc,eni Ia pass
the Bii over the Prestients Veto
Thirty Republicans from the west.
ern states vote In Favor ot tho IBH,.

ern STATES Ote IN FoNOr Ot tnc UV'.
WARRINGTON. Aug II. The confer
cnce report on the Underwood La Fol
lette wool hill was agreed to 10y the House
Of Representatives to-day. The vote
Representative Akin Of New York. the
politically unclassiHed member. voted
with the Democratic for the report.
These are the Republicans who were
for the wool bill: Anderson Of Minnesota. .
Davidson Of Wisconsin. Davis Of Mime
sota Esch Of Wisconsin. Hanna Of North
Dakota. Haugen Of Iowa. Helgesen of
North Dakota. Hubbard Of Iowa, jackson
of Kansas. Kent Of California. Kinkaid Of
Nebraska. Kopp OF Wisconsin. La Toilette
Of Washington. fIenroot Of Wisconsin.
Lindbergh OF Minnesota. Madison of
Kansas, Miller Of Minnesota. Morse OF
Wisconsin. Murdock OF Kansas. Nelson
Of Wisconsin. Nye Of Minnesota. Norris
Of Nebraska. Rees Of Kansas, Sloan Of
Nebraska, Steenerson OF Minnesota
Stephens Of California. volstead Of Minne-
sofa. Warburton Of Washington. Woods
Of Iowa and Young of Kansas.
Immediately after the conference re-
poIt iuu pCCt hp III tHc TNouhc ny
Representative Underwood. Representa-
tive Mann. the minority floor leader
made point Of order against it on the
ground that the conference committee
had no right to fix in some cases higher
rates in their agreement than were con-
tanned either in the House or Senate oils
Some surprise was expressed that Mr.,
Mann should have presented this OBJ
lection in view OF his admitted familiarity
with parlamentar ~ proccdents as Speake-
Clark without much trouble was able
to dig up precetients from the rulings
OF Speaker Schuyler Co!fax. John q.
Carlisle. David b. Henderson and Joseph
G. Cannon that made i, a simple matter
for him to overrule the Mann point of
order.
There being something Of row between
the two sides Of the House over the time
allowance for debate. Mr.. Underwood
cut the knot by moving the previous
question. During the forty minutes
allowed for debate on the conference
report itself Representative Payne Of
New York. author OF the tariff bill now
on the statute books. and Ma iority Leader
Underwood were the pripcipal speakers.
Mr.. Pavne denounced the Underwood
la Toilette wool measure as ~mongrel."
and referred to the open session Of the
conference committee.
That" said he. marked a new era in
legislative history. When we went in
there q motion was made to refer the
questions in dispute to Senator La Toilette
and Represent alive Underwood and that
was carried After several days they
came in here and reported they had
pretty nearly come TO an agreement.
Gradually they reached one point little
higher and one little higher until they
agreed to 20 per cent duty on all wools
II vas a revelation for me to see Mr.
Underwood work himself up to that point
after the speech he made here com
mending this bill Why did he get up to
20 per cent The whole effort was patent.
They wanted to put bill up to the Presi
dent to see whether he would veto it or
not, They will find out when they get /,
up to him. pretty suddenly II was
criminal on the part OF these gentlemen
10 try TO guess out a bill affecting over
5OOOOO people employed in those in
dustries without waiting until December
| /, when We could get report of the Tariff
Board
Mr. Underwood, following Mr.. Payne,
said tha. il the conference bill became a
| law, instead OF a loss of revenue there
would be an increase of nearly 10 per
cent. He added thai he hoped President
Taft would have patriot ism enough TO
sign the bill
Z saw" he declared that we can we'll
afford to pass this bill and send it 10 the
President in order that we NAV get some
relief. even If it does not entirely express
our views on this question
, Then the debate was closed and he bill
| passed II was matter of comment that
the vote. 2OS to 90. was more than sufficient
! to pass the bill over the veto Of the Presi-
dent so far as the House liz concerned
The message came over TO the Senate
I from the House of Representa- ives to- day
that the House had adopted the report
of the Conference Committee on the wool
bill II WAS expected that the Senate
would act on tho matter promptly and
allow the bill to go to the President but
| Senator Cummins was making a speech
AT the time and at the conclusion Of his
remarks Senator La Toilette said that on
account OF the small attendance in the
chamber he would not call up the con.
ference report in the Senate until to-
morrow. There appears to be no doubt
that the Senate viii agree to the report
There was quite lively cont royersv
as TO whether the House or the senate
should take the papers' in the matter
Of the conference report OH the farmers
free list bill The phrase take the
papers" is the Congressional term for
having custody Of the bill In the course
OF tne OoDAtS ScIidtOT fenTOhe produced
what purported to he the report Of the
official stenographer on the meeting of
the Finance Committee Saturday. This
report showed that It was agreed that the
House should f1rst take the bill Senator
La Toilette objected He challenged the
statement that there had been a unani-
nous agreement that the House should
have the bill and even denied that there
was an off1cial stenographer present to
report the session He crossed over the
Senate chamber to where one of the clerks
OF the Finance Committee WAS standing
and read him a sharp lecture on what he
considered the irregularity of the pro-
ceedings
Senator Bailey expressed an opinion
that it was not important which house
had the papers. and there was more or
less debate as TO which should have
them. and the question was finally left
in abcyance.
The action of Senator La Toilette
in calling up the wool bill and his in
sistent demand that the Senate retain
custody Of the farmers free list bill is
believed to he part Of a plan to keep