The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-12-24
SENATE PASSES
CURRENCY BILL
Measure IndOEsed by Demo.
cratic Caucus Successful
54 TO 81 IS PASSAGE VOTE

Hitchcock Measure, Urged as Sub For
Currency Bill. Given creditable Sup.
port, a. to 4t-Civii Service Ignored,
The administration currency bill
was passed in the senate by vote of
"a to "a.
The senate adopted, as a substitute
for the house bill, the measure
framed by the Democratic senate eau
Gus, which is considered satisfactory
to President Wilson.
The Democrats voted solidly for the
measure. Senator Poindexter, Pro-
gressive, and six Republicans joined
the Democratic majority in. the final
vote.
Immediately after the announcement
was made that the bill had passed the
senate named nine conferees to act
on behalf of the senate with con-
ference committee of the house to ad-
just the differences between the sen.
ate and house bills.
When the vote on the currency bill
was announced there was enthusiastic,
even uproarious applause on the DEM
ocratic side and in the galleries.
Secretary McAdoo was on the floor
OF the senate and Joined in the jubila-
tion. He occupied chair on the floor
between Senators Owen and Hitch
cock. In the reserved gallery were
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Miss Eleanor
Wilson and Secretary Tumulty, all Of
whom seemed as pleased as anybody.
There was a surprisingly close vote
on the bill offered by Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska as sub for the
measure. The Hitchcock bill was sent
to the senate by the FIVE Republicans
who make up the minority of the
banking and currency committee and
by Senator Hitchcock. 1t was defeat
ed, A to Al. All OF the Republicans
and Senator Poindexter, the Progress
sive, voted for 1t. The forty-three
votes cast against It were by Demo
Gratis.
There was one tie vote recorded In
the closing hours Of the consideration.
1t was on an amendment offered by
Senator Brandagee of Connecticut re-
quiring that all appointments made by
the federal reserve board shall be
made under the civil service law. Vice
President Marshall voted in the mega
tive, thus keeping the appointments
out of the civil service law and making
them the spoils of the Democrats.
Immediately following this vote SEN
ator Jones of Washington offered an
amendment providing that nothing in
the act should be construed as to pre-.
vent the president from placing these
employees within the classified service
after they had been selected. Sena-
tor Jones, who is Republican, insist
ed that this amendment was a neLes-
sary complement of the bill, which
had made the appointments the prey
OF the spoilsmen. But nearly all OF
the Democrats voted for it with the
result that the amendment received
63 votes and was carried in the midst
of hilarity on the Democratic side.
It's effect will be to permit PresI-
dent Wilson after all the places have
been filed by Democrats to cover
them with the civil service and insure
their permanency.
The passage OF the currency bill
through the senate marks the second
notable victory for President Wilson,
The bill as 1t emerged from the strug-
gle in the upper house carries all Of
the fundamentals upon which Mr.. Will
son and his advisers insisted, but is
admittedly better and safer measure
than the one which left the house Of
representatives.
This action by the senate practical.
ly ends a fight for currency reform
which began soon after the 1907 panic
and which has been agitated sporadic
ally before that year.
President Wilson and the Demo
cratic leaders see in the measure a
stimulus to business and are confident
it will soon end the cries of calamity
howlers.