The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28

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 Washington, January 27.-ln order not to pass the metal tariff revision bill on Sunday morning the democratic leaders of the House. after finishing the measure almost to the last paragraph, adjourned that body a few minutes before midnight tonight They win pass it early Monday. All attempts of~the republicans to amend the measure failed. The session was
 marked by a sharp division between dem-
 ocrats and insurgent republicans and the
 open declaration of many of the insur-
 gents that they would vote against the
 bill.
 The bill as it will go to the Senate
 Monday will carry an average reduction
 Of tariff duties on all metal articles of
 about 9a per cent from the rates of the l Payne-A Aldrlch bill now in force It is
 expected that If 1t becomes law to
 increase imports by s25,OO00o0 and reduce
 revenues about S900,00O.
 Charges of "eaucus dominationn and "gag rule" were made repeatedly by re-
 publicans, insurgent and regular. as MT. l Underwood applied the House rules to
 shut off debate on amendments. 1nsur- 1 gent Leader Norris of Nebraska and
 Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin
 charged the democrats with denying tho
 House a fair chance to consider the
 bill.
 Mann's Charge 1 Republican Leader Mann declared the Fpresiding chairman Representative Floyd
 of Arkansas, and Mir Underwood had l ''usurped the powers of the House moro
 automatically than ever was done before l in the history of the republic" l The attempt to amend the bill began as
 soon as MT. Underwood shut off debate at the opening of the days session. The lrepublicans fought this application of the
 elotvre rife but lost. s'~ i The Insurgents made determined at- tack upon the bill at various points and
 showed no disposition to support the democratic measure.
 Amendments for free steel rails and free pig iron were offered by Repre- lsentatiye Warburton of Washington, | republican insurgent, and voted down. l Representative Murdock of Kansas attempted to put in a free steel rail | amendment that would apply only in | case the United States Steel corpora 1 tion, which was held by the New Jersey district court to be an unlawful com bination He declared all democrats
 ought to be willing to support this pro- lposal, but Chairman Underwood exhort- | ed the democrats to vote it down. say l ing if the United States Steel corpora
 ton was dissolved there would be real
 competition among steel rail mills. | Palmer Controversy
 The debate was marked by vigorous denial from Representative Palmer, I democrat. of Pennsylvania that the 1 duty had been removed from iron ore with the idea of benehting certain steel interests in Pennsylvania. Represents
 ative. Austin republican, of Tennessee, 1 made q fight for the restoration of
 duty. on ore. declaring that free ore
 would be a particular benefit to the Bethlehem Steel company of which
 Charles NJ. Schwab is the head and which has it's mills in the district rep Presented by MT. Palmer. "I want to make a statement to end this matter at once," returned Mir. Pal mer. "So far from being the mouth piece, the spokesman or the represent ative of the Bethlehem Steel company
 he said, q want 1t understood that I
 am here in opposition to all of it's ef-
 forts.
 Marked for Slaughter | within the last 4S hours [ have re-
 ceived my notice that for this so-called
 act of treachery to the interests of my
 constituent. the Bethlehem Steel oom-
 panX and to MT. schwab. 1 am marked l for the slaughter
 The fnsurgent forces were In frequent i clashes with democratic leaders Mir. Ijn-
 derwood charged Representative Norris of
 Nebraska with attempting to delay ths | bill, charge that was indignantly denied i Republican Leader Mann declared the re-
 publicans did not want to flibuster, but wanted their full rights in considering the bill.
 If we are going to be run over we cer-
 tainiy will kick while 1t Is going on." said Mir, Mann. Amendments bv ReDreeanfa- tives Martin. democrat. of Colorado and Representative Moore, republican, 1T Pennsylvania to put an eight hour- Aav clause Into the bill were riiled out of order. An amendn snt by Representative Hill of Connecticut republican, prohibit ing the free importation of typewriters linotypes and other articles which are in the democratic free list. in case those ar ticles are controlled by patents in this countfy. was voted down.
 Representative Bradley. republican, of New York offered an amendment to in- crease the proposed duty on pocketknives and similar cutlery from 9 per cent to 1 per cent. He was asked by Representative Hamin of Missouri. democrat, whether he was financially interested in cutlery manufacture and replied that he had given up all his interests when he cams to Congress.
 Must man give up all business to come to congress?' demanded former Speaker Cannon. 'Why, not even
 tramp would be eligible. because he Is in- terested in handout." MT. Cannon added that Democratic Leader Underwood has openly stated his financial interests In the l iron and steel business and that 1t ought mot to be considered drawback to hls l ability to draft goodstarif bill. Bartlett on Roosevelt ''rhe late President of the United States
 Is the only one who has officially stated | that he does not believe there is a steel
 trust and apparently the steel trust of | ficials now are trying to resurrect him
 as candidate for the presidency" said
 Representative Bartlett of Georgia, demo- crat during the debate. l A determined fight within the demo-
 cratic ranks to maintain a higher rate of duty on lead and zinc ore was made l by Representatives Taylor. Fucker and ] Marlin all damncrata Of Cnlorado. The