Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-01
INSURGENTS VOTE
WITH DEMOCRATS
Metal Tariff Revision Bill Is Pass,
ed, 210 to 100, in the
House.

Washington Jan. 2e-The democratic
metal tariff revision to make reductions
averaging 80 per cent from the existing
steel and iron duties Of the Payne-Aldrich
law, passed the House to-day by vote
of 2l0 to 100. Republican efforts to amend
or debate the bill were brought to n sud-
den end and when Democratic Leader Tn
derwood refused TO permit the offering of
further amendments, and forced the
House to vote upon the final passage
of the measure.
Twenty insurgent republicans voted for
the measure, while the democratic delega-
ton from Colorado, Representatives Ma
tin, Rucker and Taylor. dissatisfied with
the great reduction proposed In the lead
tariff, voted against the democratic
majority. The republicans who supported
the bill, all insurgents. We're: Representa-
tives Davis and Lindbergh. Minnesota;
Haugen, Hubbard and Woods, Iowa;
Helgesen. North Dakota Jackson, MUIR
dock and Young. Kansas; Kent and
stephens, California; kinkad, Norris and
Sloan. Nebraska: Lafferty. Oregon La
Toilette and Warburton. Washington;
Lenroot Morse and Nelson. Wisconsin.
Defeated repeatedly in their attempts
to force amendments into the measure,
the republicans rallied for the last attack
upon motion of Representative Payne Of
New York former republican chairman
of the ways and means committee. to re-
commit the bill to that committee, with
instruction to hold it until the tariff COM
mission made its report upon its pending
investigation of the metal tariff. This
motion was defeated 205 to los The regu-
lar republicans protested to the last
against the application Of rules closing
the debate.
The bill will face stormy reception IN
the Senate. 1t will reach the Senate to-
morrow and be referred TO the finance
committee. Both republican and demo-
cratic senators have been deferring other
legislation with u view to concentrating
attention on the tariff measures as they
emerge from the House but no course OF
action has been mapped out
The democrats expressed hope to-
day that the progressive republicans
would join with them in the same coal
ttion that enabled the Senate to put
through the tariff bills at the extra
session and to leave the issue squarely
up to the President. The progress
sive republicans have not held any
conference as to their attitude. There
are differing individual views among
them as to the steel tariff that may in
terfere with full alignment on this
measure
Senator Cummins has bill which
he is ready to propose as n substitute
for the House measure, largely based
| on his opposition to the House bills
transformation of specific duties into
ad valorem duties. Other progressive
senator2 also have propositions to Of
fer when steel revision is ready to be
brought out in the Senate
The regular members of the Senate
| finance committee already are figuring
| on hearing various persons Interested
in the steel industry who have ap-
piled TO the committee Senator Pen
rose will return Wednesday from Pitts
| burg and he and his republican col
leagues will Immediately take up the
matter Of hearings