The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
RECIPROCITY PASSES
 SENATE BY 6S TO 27
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 C11mber two amendments by Bristow on tyre and type metal and on rubber prod nets. and a minor amendment by Craw- ford, making 23 in all, the last going to the grave by the viva voce method of re- buke. Every other amendment had been given the yeas and nays.
 Then, at 1:s, the gadfiies of amend ments were all brushed away, and the great race for the Canadian-American derby was at last at hand.
 At 1:36 the Canadian pact had run the red gauntlet of all opposition and won Inv R to 27. a two to one majority.
 Never was the finals of a great strug- gle so quietly enacted. There was not a stir or a thrill from the beginning to the end of the ballot. There was not a surprise in the roll call. The event predestined, predetermined and fore known, was accomplished at last Every man voted as he was expected and scheduled to vote. Bailey. Clark land Simmons were the democrats who theft the ranks of their party. Brown, Poindexter and Works saved the con- sistency of the insurgent group by voting all through for reciprocity.
 Including pairs, 35 democrats, 20 re- ipublicans and three insurgents had voted for the bill. Three democrats, 10 insurgents and Is regular repub- 1icans had voted against 1t.
 A Democratic Measure ', So that in the Senate. as in the House, reciprocity is a democratic measure. ! It was passed by democratic votes It would have been impossible without democratic votes Giving all credit to i the persistent interest of the President, one has only to examine the roll call in every stage to see that the democratic party gave to the measure the indis- pensable thing of votes and that the republican vote was half-hearted all the way through and given to sustain the President and not to represent the party.
 Whatever victory the passage of reel -- -procity may bring to the President il comes at time of need. The admins tration is in sore distress. A fog oi scandal covers it from the Attorney Generals office to the White House Wickers-am of the cabinet is In ques tion, the Wiley persecutionists bring ing curses home to roost. The demo cratic Investigating committees are dig 9ing deep into republican records tha smell to heaven and that scandal, deep CT and more menacing than all of them is even now pulsing with probable de velopments that may strike the repub
 
 Never could this day of reciprocit, triumph come more timely for the Pres fdent than now.
 L. President Taft will sign the agree nent next Wednesday after the reas- embling of the House and after the Hignature of Speaker Clark is added tc that of Vice President Sherman.
 Then the American part is done. People Vindicated
 The people have been vindicated. The lumber trust and the paper trust have failed to becloud the popular vision. The allies of the selfish have been routed The handful of honest senators who protested the purely imaginary dam age which seemed to them to threaten q few sections of the northwest, will speedily discover their mistaken judg- ment in the matter.
 And, now, 1t is all up to Canada. The Canadian government under 1 Premier Laurier, is pledged to the agreement just as the American govern ment was pledged to it through Presi- dent Taft
 The Canadian parliament is now in ses- sion. MT. Laurier has a majority of 60 government members behind him. They are sure to vote with him in this govern ment emergency. There may be delays and wrangles and filibusters, just as we have had in Congress. But there can be no appeal to the country within five years, even if the opposition were fierce enough to demand it.
 The Canadian parliament will pass the reciprocity pact before the summer is over. President Taft and Premier Lau- Tier will each issue proclamations put ting it into immediate execution. And then we shall begin to realize Its benef- cent. effects. political, moral and ma terial.
 There is neither time nor space. tc enumerate all these. but to the keeper of house and to the bill payer Of the costs of living this little table among 8 thousand may bring some pleasureable anticipations of the results of lowered