The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-08-16
over IAFTs VETO
HOUSE DEMOCRATS AND Fl RE-
PUELIcANS PUT THE MEAS
URE THROUGH.
SURPRISES THE LEADERS
Unable to Stave Off Defeat-Believed
to Be First Time in History
House Has Taken
Such Action


row margin of five votes the house
passed the wool tariff revision bill
over President Taft's veto. The vote,
TIA to 80, was made possible only by
the detection of Fl republicans who
voted with the democrats. The an
ated wild scene in the house and
amid great confusion the republican
leaders protested that Speaker Clark
must count as voting ten members
who answered present" to their
names, ruling which would have de-
feated the democratic program by ov-
grooming the five vote margin and
making impossible the recording of
the necessary two-thirds vote of the
house. This the speaker declined to
do
Less than an hour after the wool bill
had been repassed the house conferees
on the sugar tariff bill met and dis
agreed. They determined to report to
the house and senate that it had been
found impossible to reach a comprom-
Use between the Underwood and the
Lodge-Bristow bills.
This action is expected to mark the
end Of sugar tariff consideration In
the present session, and the excise
tax bill, which was framed to make
up revenues that would have been
lost by the reduction of the sugar
tariff, also probably will remain in
conference when congress adjourns.
While democratic and progressive
leaders of the senate do not believe
the wool bill can be passed in that
body over the presidents veto, they
will continue the demand for action
on the cotton tariff measure.
The vote ON the wool bill came as a
surprise to the republican leaders OF
the house. When they discovered that
detection from their ranks was to be
expected it was too late to prevent it.
The following republicans went over
to the democratic camp and made vic.
tory possible for the majority:
Representative Akin of New York,
Anderson, Davis, Lindbergh, Miller
STEVENSON and Stevens of Minnesota;
Anthony, Rees and Young of Kansas;
Cooper and Morse of Wisconsin; Hau.
gen and Woods of Iowa; Helgeson OF
North Dakota; Kent of California;
Lafferty of Oregon; LaFollette and
Warburton of Washington; Norris and
Sloan of Nebraska.
Not in the memory of the Oldest
members of the house has q tariff
measure ever been passed over the
presidents veto by the lower branch
of congress. Neither Speaker Clark
nor Majority Leader Underwood could
recollect such an occurrence.
When Speaker Clark announced the
vote and declared the bill again had
been passed 'the presidents veto to
the contrary Notwithstanding" there
was wild outburst of applause from
the democratic side.
The tumult was increased by the
demands of half dozen republicans
that the ruling was unconstitutional
When semblance of order was re.
stored Representative Gardner OF
Massachusetts, insisted that the con.
stitution provided that a two-thirds
vote of the house was necessary and
that the ten members voting "pres.
ent" should be counted, for they had
recorded their presence in the house
Representative Olmsted of Pennsyl.
vania, one of the foremost parliament.
arians in congress, supported the con.
tention.
These ten members who voted
present" ruled the speaker, after a
lengthy examination of presidents,
are recognized as being present only
to constitute a quorum The consti
tuition as interpreted in the past clear
ly provides that all decisions must
rest ON yea and nay vote" #