Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-08-16
PASS WOOL BILL
OVER TAFT's VETO
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC AND q RI.
PUDLlcANs PUT THE MEAs-
URE THROUGH.
SURPRISES THE LEADERS
Unable TO etave or Defsat-Dsiisvsd
to Be First Time In History
House Has Taken
Such Action

S~e
row margin Of i've votes the house
passed the wool tariff revision bll
over President Taft's Veto The vote
174 to 80. was made possible only BY
the detection Of 81 republicans who
voted with the democrats. The an.
nouncement Of democratic success ere
!. ated q wild scene in the house and
amid great confusion the republican
leaders protested tAat Speaker Clark
must count % voting ten members
who answered present" to their
names, . ruling which would have do
feated the democratic program by ov.
grooming the i've vote margin and
making impossible the recording OF
the necessary two-thirds vote Of the
house. This the speaker declined to
do.
Less than an hour after the wool bill
had been repassed the house confereeS
on the sugar tariff bill met and dis
agreed. They determined to report to
the house and senate that Il had been
found impossible to reach . oomprom'
lee between the Underwood and the
Lodge ristow bills.
This action IL expected TO mark the
end of sugar tariff consideration In
the present session, and the excise
tax bill, which was framed 10 make
up revenues that would have been
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 belisvs
the wool bill can be passed In that
body over the presidsat's vstA they
will continue the demand for action
on the cotton tariff measure.
The vote on the wool bill came -
surprise to the republican leaders a
the house. When they discovered that
detection from their ranks was to bs
expected It was too late to prevent It.
The following republicans went over
10 the democratic camp and made VIC
tory possible for the majority:
Representatives Akin Of New York,
Anderson, Davis. Lindbergh. Miller.
steeherson and Stevens Of Minnesota;
Anthony, Rees and Young Of Kansas;
Cooper and Morse Of Wisconsin; Hau-
gen and Woods of Iowa; Hslgeson Of
North Dakota; Kent Of California:
Lafferty of Oregon; LaFollette and
Warburton of Washington; Norris and
Sloan of Nebraska.
Not in the memory Of the Oldest
members Of the house has q tariff
measure ever been passed over the
presidents veto by the lower branch
Of congress. Neither Speaker Clark
nor Majority Leader Underwood could
recollect such an occurrence.
When Speaker CLARK announced tho
vote and declared the bill again had
been passed "the presidents veto to
the contrary notwithstanding," there
was wild outburst Of applause from
the democratic side.
The tumult was increased by the
demands of a half dozen republicans
that the ruling was unconstitutional.
When semblance Of order was 70
stored Representative Gardner Of
Massachusetts, insisted that the con.
stitution provided that q two-thirds
vote Of the house was necessary and
that the ten members voting ''pres.
emit" should be counted, for they had
recorded their presence in the house
Representative Olmsted Of Pennsyl
vania, one Of the foremost parliament
arians in congress. supported the con
tention.
These ten members who voted
present" ruled the speaker. after 4
! lengthy examination Of precedents,
ARE recognized AZ being present only
to constitutes quorum. The consti.
tuition - int preted in the past clear.
y provides that all decisions must
rest on yea and nay vote"