Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-29
Underwood House Bill, Too,
Meets Defeat When Vote
is Taken - Compromise
Measure Meets Favor. ].
PASSES SENATE BY
VOTE OF 48 TO 81
Wisconsin Senator Makes
Lengthy Speech in Sup
port Of His Alterations to
Certain Schedules.

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+ Washington, D. c., July 81 +
+ Senator La Follette's amend +
+ ment to the Underwood house r
+ wool bill was defeated IA to 66. +
+ Fourteen republican insurgents +
+ voted for It,.
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Washington, D. c., July pa COM
promise wool bill offered by Senator
La Toilette Of Wisconsin, modiflca-
! ton of both his own and the house
bill, was passed by the senate 48 to 80,
through the union of democrats and
! insurgent republicans. Upon this mid
! die ground the democrats, having Sc
cured a record vote on the original
Underwood bill joined with the repub-
lican 1nsurgent forces. The measure
adopted reduces the raw wool duty
to IS per cent ad valorem and cores
pondingly, reduces the duties on wool
en- articles.
| There is some doubt as to what
course the house democrats will pur-
sue with regard to the compromise
| bill House Leader Underwood several
days ago served notice that the house
would not accept the original LaFol-
lette bill.
Although President Taft has made
no definite utterance to that effect, 1t
has been strongly intimated at the
white house from time to time that he
might feel called upon to veto. wool
tariff bill passed in advance of report
on that schedule for the tariff board.
The passage Of the bill came after
defeat of the Underwood house bill, "A
to SO, on almost a party vote, and after
the original LaFollette substitute had
been voted down with only the repub-
lican insurgents in it's favor. Having
i secured vote on the Underwood bill,
as passed by the house the democrats
then supported motion made by Sen
ator LaFollette to reconsider the vote
by which their bill was defeated. AS
soon as the motion to reconsider had
been carried, LaFollette offered his
compromise.
Measure Is Reduction.
The LaFollette amendment to the
Underwood bill was the first thing pro-
posed when the vote began. Only four
teen republican insurgents supported
it. Following its defeat came the vote
on the Underwood bill. With the ex-
ception of Senator Brown of Neb-
raska, all republican insurgents and
regulars joined in opposing the Under
wood BILL and it was defeated, "A to
Sc.
Senator LaFollette at once moved
to reconsider and Senator Martin, the
democratic leader, endorsed the mo-
ton. This made it clear that an I'M.
derstanding had been reached between
democrats and insurgents, and the mo-
ton to reconsider was carried 40 to
81.
Senator LaFollette in offering his
substitute, said it fixed the raw wool
duty at 35 per cent and reduced all
manufactured wooden rates cores
pondfngly.
These rates are still high above the
rates proposed in the Underwood bill,
especially on raw wool, which is
placed at 20 per cent ad valorem. The
LaFollette substitute as adopted, 4S
to 80, and Immediately afterwards the
bill thus amended was passed by the
same vote AS it passed the senate
the bill differed in every particular
from the house bill This will throw
every paragraph of the two bills into
conference.
Mr.. La Toilette by 40 to 81 secured
reconsideration Of the vote on the
house wool bill, the democrats and In
surgents joining in support Of his mo.
ton.
Senator La Toilette then offered
modified substitute Of his amendment
as a comprise between the house bill
and the original La Toilette bill. upon
which democrats and insurgents had
agreed. He said it represented re-
duction of the duties in his previous
amendment. Democrats accepted 1t as
the best that could be obtained. All
insurgents but Borah, Idaho; Dixon,
Mont, and Jones, Washington, voted
for the compromise bill; while the
democrats were unanimous in their
support Of 1t.
How They Voted.
The vote on the final passage OF the
compromise bill follows:
For the bill-Republicans-B Bourne,
re-: Bristow, Kan; Brown, Neb.;
Clapp, and Nelson. Mimi; Crawford,
So Oak; Cummins and Kenyon, Ia;
Gronna and McCumber, No. Dak.; La
Toilette, Wis; Poindexter, WASH;
Works, Calf.
For the DEMONSTRATION,
Ca; Bailey, Tex Bankhead and john
ston, Ala; Bryan and Fletcher, Fla;
Chamberlain, Ore; Chiffon and Wat
son w. Va; Clark and Davis. Ark;
Foster and Thornton, La; Gore and
Owen, Okla; Hitchcock, Neb.; John
son, Maine; Kern and Shively, Ind;
Martin ard Swenson, Va; MARITIME, N.
IT,; Miners, Mont; Newlands. New;
|O'Gorman, N. Y; Overman and Sim
mons, N. G.; ?aynter, KY; Pomerene,