The Calumet news., 1912-07-26
An Agreement Can be Reached
Now That Senate Has Pass
ed LaFolIette Measure
FOLLOWS the TARIFF BOARD
Bill Like One Vetoed Last August
Will 60 to Taft
PROVIDES FOR DUTY REDUCTIONS

Washington. July 26.--The Senates
unexpected passage of the La Toilette
VIII bill presents situation in which
the ma aiority Of the leaders In the
House thinks the two branches of
Congress can agree. Underwood
thought thers/would be little difficulty
in reachingM compromise. In this case
a pill 1lnost Identical with the one
Taft vetoed in August last is again
likely To go to the White House. The
former bill was vetoed on the ground
that the tariff board had not reported
ON its Investigation Of Schedule TX.
The leaders of both houses say the Ia
Toilette bill follows the conclusions
Of the board quite closely Underwood
also sees a chance for cotton revision
this session.
LaFollette Wool Bill Passed.
Ten progressive Republicans over
threw the regular Republicans in the
Senate late last night ard Joined wish
he Democrats IN passing the La Fol
lette woolen tariff revision bill as
substitute for the Democratic measure
framed by the House OF Representa-
tiyes. The La toilette bill was adopt
ed by vote OF a. to 20 less than Two
hours after the Republican leaders
had achieved what they believed was
victory when compromise substi
mted by Senator Penrose was passed
IN committee OF the whole
The sudden termination of the wool
tarif fight came as the climax of Q
day full of surprising events. The
Democratic house bill for a revision of
the wool tariff bill was technically be
fore the Senate The progre ssives first
voted for Senator Cummins' substitute
the rates of which were slightly abovc
those of the Democratic bill. They
were defeated, 81 To- "a. Then Senator
Penrose came forward with "a com
promise measure considerably higher
than the Democratic bilt but which
regular and progressive Republicans
believed they could agree upon.
Led by the defeated Senator Cum
minis who said he would accept the
fenrose bill as step in the right di-
rection," all but three of the prugres
Sives rallied TO the support of the Per-
rose measure and II was adopted by a
narrow margin of "a To 81. This took
place in what was known as the conf
mittee of the whole. The amended
measure then passed into the Senate
proper.
La Toilette Gets Busy.
In the meantime, Senator La Fol
iette who with Senator Clapp and
Kenyon. had joined the Democrats IN
voting against the Penrose substitute,
saw an opportunity To again pass his
bill of 1911, which President Taft had
vetoed. There was quick rally OF
progressive forces and the La Toilette
bill was introduced as a substitute for
the already amended bin. II became
the substitute for the Democratic
house bill and. as such. the Senate
finally passed 1t, AZ to 20.
The progrcssivcs who joined with
the democrats In adopting the La FOL
lette substitute We're Borah. Bristow,
Clapp, Crawford. Cummins, Gronna,
Kenyon, La Toilette. Poindexter and
Works. The amended bill goes back
To the House of Representatives and
the resulting tariff situation is exactly
THAT which followed the adoption Of a
woolen tarin bill in the special session
of 1911. The La Toilette bill is the
same as passed then by the Senate.
with a raw wool duty of 30 per cent
and an average duty of So per cent on
manufactured goods. The House bill
" the same as that passed by the
House with the raw wool duty of 20
per cent out Of the two measures the
conference committee last year evolv-
ed compromise which President Taft
vetoed because the tariff board had
not completed its Investigations a
conference committee will again take
up the two bills and attempt to frame
substitute to send TO the president.