The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-26
adopted After the
Latter Thought
They Had
Won
CLIMAX OF DAY
OF SURPRISES
Situation Is Now the Same
as During Special Ses-
sion of 1911.
TWILL AGAIN BE SENT
TO PRESIDENT TAFT
Senate First, as Committee of the
Whole, Adopted Penrose Com
promise Bill After Rejecting
Cummins' Measure by
Decisive Vote

give republicans overthr9w the regular
republicans In the Senate late tonight
and Joined with the democrats in pass
Ing the LaFo1lette wooden tariff re-
vision bill as a substitr for the DEM
ocratic measures framed by the House
of Representatives
The LaTollette bill was adopted by
a vote of 80 to 27 less than two hours
after the republican leaders had
achieved what they believed was a
victory when q compromise submitted
by Senator Penrose was passed in the
committee of the whole
The sudden termination of the wool
tariff fight came as the climax of a
day full of surprising events The
democratic House bill for a revision
of the wool tariff was technically be-
fore the Senate. The progressives first
voted for Senator Cummins' substitute,
the rates of which were slightly above
those of the democratic bill. They were
here defeated Ia to 81 Then Senator
Penrose came forward with a COM
promise measure considerably higher
than the democratic bill but which
regular and progressive republicans
Support Penrose Measure
Led by the defeated Senator Cum
Minis, wlrc said he would accept the
Penrose bill as step in the right
direction" ail but three of the pro-
gressives rallied to the support of the
Penrose measure and 1t was adopted
by the narrow margin of "a to 32. This
took place In committee of the whole
The amended measure then passed into
the Senate proper In the meantime
Senator I.aFollette, who, with Senators
CIapp and Kenyon, had Joined the DEM
ocrats in voting against the Penrose
substitute, saw an opportunity to again
pass his bill of 1911. which President
Taft had vetoed. There was a quick
rally of progressive forces and the La
Toilette bill was introduced as a sub
stitute for the already amended bill.
1t became the substitute for the dem
ocratic House bill and as such the
Senate finally passed 1t AZ to 20.
The progressives who Joined with
the democrats in adopting the LaFol-
lette substitute were Borah. Bristow,
Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Gronna,
Kenyon. LaFollette, Poindexter and
Works. The amended bill goes back to
the House of Representatives and the
resulting tariff situation is exactly that
which followed the adoption of WOOL
ea tariff in the special session of 1911.
Situation Is Same
The LaFollette bill is the same as
passed then by the Senate with a raw
wool duty of 80 per cent and an aver
sge duiy of 81 per cent in N, manufac. a..
same as then passed by the House
with the raw wool duty of 20 per cent.
Out of these two measures the confer
ence committee last year evolved Il
compromise which President Taft ve-
toed because the tariff board had not
completed it's wooden investigation. A |
conference committee will again take
up the two bills and attempt to frame |
a substitute TO send to the President. |
, The McCumber reciprocity amend |
ment was defeated. Senator Clapp OBJ
tected to again attaching the amend
ment for the repeal OF the reciprocity |
law to the tariff bill. He said he did |
not want TO be understood. however, as
fayoring the reciprocity act which he
believed the President had forced the
Senate to pass with the baneful lure /
of patronage"
Senator Williams declared that Pres |
ident Taft would not veto such
wooden tariff bill as the IaFollette
measure. He said the LaFollette sub |
stitute conformed so closely with the |
tariff boards recommendations that the |
President would be compelled to sign
1t II it were sent to him.
The Penrose substitute was submit
ted after the Senate had been in session
nearly seven hours. Senator Penrose ex-
planned it. comparison of duties was
given by Senator Smoot and with debate
of less than three hours thesnew measure