The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-08
SENATE DEMOCRATS AGREE ON
TARIFF BILL
COTTON TAX DROPPED
Caucus Of Upper Branch Votes for
Delay in Cotton Futures Scheme
and the House is Expected to Fall
Into Line-Some Sharp Differences
Smoothed Out.

Disaffection among Democratic
senators which Wednesday prevented
final action on the tariff bill was dis
sipated under the influence Of heat
ed caucus discussion and Wednesday
evening the caucus approved the bill
as reported by the conference COM
mittee Of the House and Senate. Bat
six Democrats voted against approx
ing the report. The caucus decided
to abandon it's position on the propo-
sition in the bill to tax dealings in
cotton futures and leave the entire
subject for later legislative action.
Both the amendment Of Senator
Clarke of Arkansas, written into the
bill in the Senate, and the less dras-
tic administration substitute pre-
sented by Mr.. Underwood, House
leader, and reported by the House,
will be thrown out by the Senate
Democrats.
After the caucus Senator Simmons
said he was confident that the Sen
ate would complete its consideration
of the tarir bill Thursday. He said
a motion would be made first to agree
to the conference report and that
then he would move-to disagree to the
Underwood cotton tax amendment
and also to recede from the Senate
amendment.
With the bill thus disposed Of by
the Senate the House probably would
agree to drop the cotton futures tax
provision for the present and SEND
the tariff bill to the president. Sen
ator Simmons expressed confidence
that there would be no desertlons
from the Democrats who voted for
the bill on it's original passage in the
Senate when the measure appears.
A resolution proposing to bind the
Democrats to the nights caucus was
offered by Senator Lewis OF Illinois,
but was withdrawn with the under
standing that the binding feature OF
former tariff caucusses applied to the
entire consideration Of the tarin bill.
While Senator Simmons expects to
finish the bill Immediately the desire
Of Republicans and Democrats to dis
cuss the provisions Of the conference
report may delay final action.
Wednesdays caucus, which extend
ed into the evening, battled loud and
long over various provisions in the
bill arranged by the conference COM
mittee. Chief among these was the
tax Of S1.10 a gallon on grape
brandy, used to forty sweet wines,
against which Senator Pomerene OF
Ohio voiced strenuous protest; the
ditferential between wire rope and
wire incompleted cables, which as
fixed by the conference aroused the
opposition OF Senators Reed OF Mis-
souri, and Hughes Of New Jersey, and
the arrangement of the paragraph In
cluding cast iron pipe.
Senators Reed and Pomerene
framed a resolution directing that
the conference report be sent back to
the conference committee with in
structions to alter these provisions.
But Senator Simmons, In charge OF
the bill, moved as substitute that
the conference report be accepted.
His motion was carried by a vote OF
% +o Senators Reed, Pomerene,
.Vardaman, Hollis, O'Gorman and
Hughes voted against the motion.
Senators who supported the Clarke
amendment taxing cotton futures ex-
pressed strong opposition to the ad-
min;stration substitute and declared
they would prefer to allow the entire
matter to go over for special legisla-
ton rather than accept the Under
WOOD substitute : his plan was hnal-
ly adopted without a vote.