Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-14
Wool Bill Over
 Presidents Veto
PAssEND WHEN 21 REPUBLICANS
 WENT OVER TO DEMOCRATS.
IN THE HOUSE TUESDAY
Vote Was 174 to s0-First Tariff
 Measure Known Ever Passed in
 House Over Chief Executives Veto.

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. IA to 80, was made possible only by the defection of twenty-one republicans who voted with the dem Ocrats. The announcement of demo- cratic success created a 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. a ruling which would have defeated the democratic pro- gramme by overcoming the fve-vote margin and making impossible the re- cording of the necessary two thirds vote of the house. This the speaker declined to do.
 Disagreed on Sugar Bill.
 Less than an hour after the wool bill had been repassed in the house, the conferees 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 Underwood and Lodge Bristow bills. This action is expected to mark the end of sugar tariff consideration in the present ses- sion, and the excise tax bill, which was framed to make up revenues that would have been lost by the re- ductiOn of the sugar tariff, also prob ably 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 the ac- ton on the cotton tariff measure.
 Surprised Republican Leaders.
 The vote on the wool bill came as a surprise to the republican leaders of the house. When they discovered that defection from their ranks was to be expected it was too late to prevent 1t. AS a result the following repub- licans went over to the democratic camp and with their votes made vic tory possible for the majority: Rep resentatives Akin, New York; Ander- son, Davis. Lindbergh, Miller, Steener- son and Stevens. Minnesota; Anthony Rees and Young, Kansas; Cooper ana Morse, Wisconsin,: Haugen and Woods Iowa; Heigesen, North Dakota; Kent California; Lafferty, Oregon; La,Fol lette and Warburton, Washington Norris and Sloan, Nebraska,
 Not in the memory of the oldes member of the house has a tariff measure, ever been passed over th' presidents veto by the lower brancl of congress. Neither Speaker Clarl nor Majority Leader Underwood coulC recollect such an occurrence.
 Democrats Wildly Enthusiastic.
 When Speaker Clark announced tn, vote and declared the bill again haC | been passed "the presidents veto t, l the contrary notwithstanding" ther, was a wild outburst of applause iron the democratic side. The tumult wa. l increased by the demands of a half dozen republicans that the ruling wa unconstitutional When semblance o order was restored Representativ | Gardner of Massachusetts declaret 1 that a two-thirds vote of the hous was necessary and that the ten mem bers voting Present should b ! counted, for they had recorded thei presence in the house. Representa- l tive Olmsted of Pennsylvania, one o the foremost parliamentarians in con gress, supported the contention.
 Ruling by Speaker.
 Those ten members who vote l RFeSenL, ruled the speaker ate a lengthy examination of precedents "are recognized as being present onl to constitute quorum. The consti tuition, as interpreted in the past I'clearIy provides that all decision must rest on a yea and nay vote"
 Representative Fitzgerald of Nev York, democrat, supported MT. Olm sted and MT. Gardner in their con | tentious while Minority Leader Man supported the speakers position. Tn speaker, when the debate broke ou with renewed vigor put danper on i
 Talking No Use.
 "You may talk all you want" h said, but the chair has no intentio now or later of changing It's ruling. Shortly before the vote was taken Mi nority Leader Mann appealed to hi followers to stand by the republica party and protective tariff principle;