The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-14
WOOL TARIFF BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE OVER VETO OF
 PRESIDENT TAFT
IS FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
That Lower House iias Passed s Vetoed BiIl-Objection is Raised to Ruling of Speaker Clark
 on the Ballot.

Washington, Aug. 13.-By the mar row margin of five votes, the house today passed the wool tariff revision bill over President Tafts veto.
 The vote, 174 to 80, was-made pos sible only by the reflection of 21 republicans who voted with the demo- crats
 The announcement of the democrats created wild scene in the house and amid great confusion. the reptib- lican leaders protested that Speaker Clark must count as voting ten mem bers who answered present" to their names, a ruling which would have defeated the democratic program by overcoming the five vote margin over the necessary pwo thirds. This the speaker declined to do.
 Less than an hour after the wool bill had been repassed in the house, conferences on the sugar tariff bill met and disagreed. They determined to report to the house and senate that it had been found impossible to reach a compromise between the Under wood and Lodge-Bristow bills.
 This action is expected to mark the end of the sugar tariff consideration in the present session and the excise tax bill. which was framed to make up revenues that would have beer 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 oH the cotton tariff measure.
 The vote on the wool bill came as a surprise to the house republican leaders. When they discovered that deflection from their ranks was to be expected, it was too late to prevent it. As a result, the following republi- cans went over to the democrats camp and with their votes made possible the majority:
 Representative Akin, New York; Anderson, Davis, Lindbergh, Miller Steenerson and Stevens, Minnesota; Anthony, Rees, and Young. Kansas; Cooper and Morse, Wisconsin; Haugen and Woods, Iowa; Helgeson, North Dakota; Kent, California; Lafferty, Oregon; LaFollette, Wisconsin; War burton, Washington; Norris and Sloan Nebraska.
 Not in the memory of the oldest member of the house has tariff measure ever been passed over the presidents veto by the lower branch of congress.
 When Speaker Clark announced the vote and declared the bill again had been passed, the presidents veto to the contrary notwithstanding" there was a wild outburst of applause from the democratic side. The tumult was increased by demands of half dozen republicans that the ruling was un- constitutional. When a semblance of order was restored, Representative Gardner, of Massachusetts insisted that the constitution provided that a two thirds vote of the house was necessary and that the ten members voting present should be counted, for they had recorded their presence in the house. Representative Olm- stead of Pennsylvania, one of the foremost parliamentarians, ip con gress, supported the contention.
 Those ten members who voted present" ruled the speaker after a lengthy examination of precedents, "are recognized as being present only to constitute quorum The constitu- tion, as interpreted in the past. clearly provides that all decisions must rest on yea and nay vote"
 Representative Fitzgerald. of New York. democrat, supported MT. Olm- stead anu MT Gardner in the con- tentions, while Minority Leader Mann supported the speakers position The speaker when the debate broke out