Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-17
SENATE REJECTS PENRosE.LA
TOILETTE MOTION FOR PUB.
Lie HEARINGS.
BARE MAJORITY OF FIVE
DEFEATS RESOLUTION
Only Two Democrats, Southern Sugar
Tariff Men, Favor It-RspubIicans,
Both Standpat and Progressive, Sup
port Motion-vote Indicates Passage
of Tariff Bill Without Change.

w ilsoH LdS Won his tdI1lA uSut III the
senate. The Underwood bill. which he
approves. will be passed by the upper
house substantially as il was adopted
by the lower chamber.
This IS the Interpretation placed by
the administration and senators upon
the result of the vote on the Penrose-
La Toilette motion directing the
finance committee to conduct public
hearings upon tine bill. The motion was
rejected by five majority, the an
nouncement of the chair being So sem
ators supporting the motion and Al OPP
posing it.
In ali probability this Will be the
vote by which the senate viii pass the
bill upon its final passage.
But two democrats-Ransdell and
Thornton of Louisiana-voted for the
Psnrose motion. They were actuated
by desire TO develop all the facts in
to the transfer of sugar, a
great Louisiana industry, to the free
list They had faint hope that the
from the beet sugar and wool
states, such as Shafroth and Thomas,
OF Colorado, Myers and Walsh of -Ion-
tana. and others would aid them TO
obtain hearings. But the presidents
objection to anything of the kind pre-
vented single democratic senator
outside Of Louisiana from supporting
the Pcnrose motion.
Poindexter Opposes It.
Senator Poindexter of Washington.
was the single member of the senate
not democrat to vote against the
proposition to hold hearings. Poindex-
ter undoubtedly viii vote for the bill
when it comes up for fina! passage.
His opposition to hearings lies on the
that it paves the way to
a procedure with which
he is not in sympathy.
Every republican. progressive and
lined up in support of the
Penrose- LaFollette motion. One of the
curious results Of the effort to get
these two factions Of the republican
party together was the joining of Pen
rose and LaFoliette in the perfection
of motion designed to put the demo-
Gratis in a political hole.
Result Of Vote.
Because of the Importance Of the vote
as foreshadowing the way in which the
senate will line up when the tariff bill
is finally passed upon. the result an
nounced by the vice president is worthy
of study. 1t was as follows:
For Republicans-Borah, Bradley.
For-Republicans- Bradley.
Brady, Rrandegee. Bristow. Burton,
Catron. Clapp Clark, (Wyo) Crawford.
Curmins. Dillingham;. Gallinger. Golf.
Jones. (Washp, Kenyon. LaFollette,
Lodge. Mclean. Nelson. Norris, Oliver.
Page. Perkins, Root. Sherman Smith
(Mich). Smoot, Stephenson, Sterling.
Sutherland, Townsend, Weeks, Works
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Democrats-Ransdell, Thornton.
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Against-Democrats- Bacon
Bankhead, Bryan. Chamberlain. Clarke
(Ark.), Gore, Hitchcock: Hollis. Hughes.
James, Johnson (Me.), Johnston ,Ala),
Kern. Lane, Lewis. Martin, (Va.). Mar
tine On. - Myers, Newlands. O'Gor-
man. Overman. Owen, Pittman,
Reed. Robinson. Shafroth, Sheppard,
Shields, Shively, Simmons, Smith,
(Ariz.) Smith. (Ga). Smith, Is.
c., Stone. Swanson. Thompson, Till
man, vardaman, Walsh-40.
Against-Progressive Poindexter-
l.
Following this vote the senate re-
ferred the Underwood bill to the finance
committee without instructions. That
committee will report the measure fav-
orably, within three weeks.