Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-08-22
HOUSE UPHOLDS
TAFT vET0Es
DEMOCRATS SUPREME EFFORT
TO OVERDUE EXECUTIVES
ACTION FAILS.
REGULARS BACK UP PRESIDENT
Free List DisapprovaI Comes After
Vote on Wool Measure.-Ad.
journment Now Expected In
Three Days.

REPRESENTATIVES, SuSIolucu IIcSIucu
iTaft's vetoes of the wool tariff an,
free list bills, and virtually fixed upol
adjournment of congress within ,
week. The house Democrats met de
feat in their supreme effort to pas.
the wool and free list bills over thu
presidents vetoes.
Not satisfied with his failure to in
duce the house to give the necessary
two.thirds vote to overrule the presi
dents vetoes, Chairman Underwood Of
the Democratic house ways and means
committee, wants veto on the mon
grel cotton tariff bill, which has pass
cd the senate accompanied by series
of proposed changes in the iron and
steel and chemical schedules, and with
provisions for making reductions in
duties on certain cotton manufactur.
ing machinery.
In order to obtain veto from Presi-
dent Taft, Mr.. Underwood is willing
to ask the Democratic house to indorse
the mongrel senate bill, just as it pass
ed the senate, SO that early action
may be secured by the executive and
thus facilitate speedy adjournment:
The house will agree to the cotton
bill as amended in the senate, but
will not hold congress in session to
await the certain veto Of that measure.
Tht senate cleared away all its bust
ness and adjournment is assured, In
the view of leaders Of both parties in
both houses, by Wednesday at the lat
est.
Count Without Hosts.
The Democrats counted without
their hosts when they banked on all
the Republicans who voted for the
wool and free list bills voting to dis
agree with the conclusions reached by
President Taft in his veto messages.
Many of the Republicans who voted
for the wool and free list bills on their
passage through the house, did that,
first. because some Of them we're
piqued over the action of the admin
istration on the Canadian bill, and
second. because they desired to go on
record as favoring reductions in the
duties and they could give that express
sion knowing full well that no such
bills as those proposed could become
laws.
They would not go counter to the
position taken by the president in re-
3ecting these bills. Hence. the Demo-
Gratis failed in accomplishing what
they desired, namely, q rebuke of the
President by passing the bills over his
vetoes. Now they are willing to bring
matters to an end a. speedily as DOS
sible.
On the motion by Mr.. Underwood
TO pass the measure over the wool
veto there were 227 affirmative votes,
20 Of them insurgent Republicans and
one Independent Republican, while the
negative votes were 1879. leaving the
Alternatives 10 votes short of the nee
essary two-thirds majority. The mo-
ton to override the veto on the free
list failed Of a twothirds majority also,
the vote being 226 to 127.
Minnesotans Against Tar.
Among the % insurgents who stood
on their former record and voted to
pass the wool bill over the presidents
head were Representatives Anderson.
Davis. Lindbergh. Miller. STEVENSON
and Volstead Of Minnesota; Hanna
and Helgeson Of North Dakota; Hau-
gen, Hubbard and Woods of Iowa. and
Lenroot Morse and Nelson of Wiscon.
stn. Among the eight insurgent Re.
publicans who voted with their col.
leagues for the conference report last
Monday, but who deserted them to
support the veto Of the president were
Representatives Nye of Minnesota, and
Esch, Kopa and Davidson of Wiscon-
sin.
"0ams Reason ~ Wool Veto"
In his message vetoing the farmers
FREQ list bill, President Taft, after
An extended review of the measure.
declared that the same reason which
impelled him to decline to sign the
wool bill controlled him in this cast"
The president summarized his obiec-
lions to the bill in these terms:
First, because it should not be
considered until the tariff board shall
make report upon the schedules 1t af-
fects; second, because the bill is so
loosely drawn as to involve the gov
eminent in endless litigation and to
leave the commercial community in
disastrous doubt; third, because It
places the finished product on the free
list, but retains on the dutiable list
the raw material and the machinery
with which such finished product is
made, and thus puts at a needless dis
advantage our American manufactur.
ors.'
New Statehood Bill Passed.
Statehood for New Mexico and Ari-
IONA upon base acceptable to Presi-
dent Taft was approved by the SEN
ate through the passage of So to 8 of
the Flood-Smith resolution presented
by Senator William Alden Smith,
chairman of the committee on terri,
tories.
The senate m~sure will II, consid
cred in the house AID hat body will,
be able to pass it if it chooses to d.
~ without having to vote first on
1o-passage of the vetoed resolutit
which rested in the house without ac-
ton.
The new resolution requires hiatt
Arizona shall eliminate from it's new
constitution the recall of judges pro-
vision before it shall be admitted to
the Union, as was provided for in Sem
ator Nelson's amendment to the origi-
nal bill. New Mexico is instructed to
vote again on change in it's consti-
tuition designed to make that act more
easily amendable in the future.