Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-04
HIS BOYISh WISH
IS NOW REALIZED
President Wilson Signs the
Tariff Bill and is Pro-
foundly Happy.
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ADDRESSES FRIENDS
Declares That its Completion is Only
Half OF Journey and Urges
Currency Bill.


Washington, Oct. 3.-Surrounded by
representatives, senators and mem
bers of his Cabinet, President Wood
row Wilson signed the administra-
ton tariff bill at ten minutes after
3 o'clock tonight. 1t became effective
as a law at midnight.
In bond and in ships Tying outside
various U. S. ports with cargoes
ready to take advantage of the re-
duced rates of the Underwood-Sim
mons tariff law, the Treasury de-
partment estimates there are goods
and merchandise valued at 100000
900. Three-fourths of this enormous
sum will enter through the port OF
New York, the remainder being
scattered among the ports of Boston
Philadelphia, Baltimore and southern
ports.
Clerks of the Senate, worked all
night over the tariff bill to make it
-
sure that it contained no errors or
misplaced punctuation marks. 1t was
.messaged over to the House prompt
~ There for more than an hour
the proposed parliamentary procedure
was debated. Speaker Clark held
that the House must recede from it's
pnr oicn M ha f,,tv,~ no
tax proposition and this quickly done,
the disputed amendment being sex
plunged. No roll cali was taken. The
Tsta was hataa III 4. IS; s fes
later the speaker affixed his sigma
ture to the bill and in less than 10
mirj>tes it was before the Senate.
Vive President Marshall signed the
bill at 1884.
Applause greeted the announce
ment of the Speakers signature in
the House. The final act in the
Senate was accomplished in more
dignified fashion. A faint handicap
ping in the galleries was heard, but
on the floor there was no demonstra-
tion..
. The President used two pens, one
he presented to Oscar Underwood,
schairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of the House, and the
other Ex-senator Simmons, chairman
of tnS Finance Committee of the
Senate, who piloted the bill through
congress.
ID To make the ceremony impressive
and historically picturesque he had
invited to be present members of the
House and Senate committees and
those of the Cabinet, who were in
the city, and the newspaper corps of
Washington. All these were gather
ed in the Presidents private office.
The only decoration in the room was
a gorgeous bunch of chysanthemums
ON the Presidents desk. When the
president arose to make the prelim-
mary announcement and sign the
bill there was a great outburst of
applause. After the presenting of the
pens, Mr.. Wilson expressed his gra-
LITIGATION over the enactment of the
first administration and said:
Fl feel a very peculiar pleasure In
what l have just done, by way Of
taking part in the completion of a
great piece of business. 1t is pleas
ure which is very hard to express in
words, whiM afEadequate to express
the feeling because the feeling that
l have is that we have done the rank
and file Of the people of this country
a great service. 1t is hard to speak
of these things without seeming to
60 off into campaign eloquence, but
that is not my feeling. 1t is one very
profound. a feeling of profound graft
tude that. working with the splendid
men who have. ,csfried this thing
through tn aiops attention and
doing justice all arddh T should
have had part in serving the people
of this country as we have been
striving ITO serve them ever since !
can remember.
II have had the accomplishment
Of somthing like this at heart ever
since was a boy. and know men