The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-09

opposition of the Republican and Pro-
 gressive Party members More re
 rnarkabIe than the size Of the major ity and the enthusiasm of the Dem ocratic cohorts was the fact that only l twelve members of the House were absent out of a total enrolment of 433.
 The political complexion of the vote Aye Nay 1 Republicans -.e.-.... 9 12o ProgresSiveS .A.a..--.~...~~ IA
 Independents -....--.... 1 :.
 Total ...----...--;...--....- 2s1 1s9
 Voting present, |
 Not voting, 12.
 The bill passed at 61o o'clock, after
 four hours of parliamentary argument and a. series Of three yea and nay votes, which consumed two hours. The
 parliamentary fight was precipitated by the futile effort made by Repre- sentative James R. Mann of Illinois,
 the Republican floor leader, to obtain
 record vote of the Democrats upon
 his plan for the creation of a tariff
 commission.
 The Democratic leaders are jubilant
 over the strength of the support which
 the Underwood bill commanded They
 regard 1t as the strongest kind of a
 mandate to the Senate that the Bn-
 derwood bill must not be fundamen-
 tally changed In the upper House, to
 which the measure was sent today. Only five Of the Democrats present
 voted against the bill, mostly Louisi-
 ana members, though one was from New York. Even this negligible loss
 was more than offset by the acquisi- ton of four Progressive votes and two Republican votes, and the vote of the
 only independent member Of the House
 The Ohio Democrats, eight Of whom led an. insurrection three weeks ago against the wool and sugar schedules, lined up for the bill on the final vote, except Representative T. T. Ansberry, a member Of the Ways and Means Committee, who is now in France on account of his health If he had been present, he would have voted for the bill.
 vania was the only Democrat who was absent, and paired against the bill with Representative Rucker of Mis- souri, another Democrat, who was for the bill. Mir. Donohue also paired against the bill in favor of recommit- ting it with instructions.
 . Representative McKellar of Tennes- see a Democrat, who was anxious to vote for the bill, was taken sudden ly i'll on the floor Of the House short ly before the ballot was taken and was unable to cast his vote. He was lifted bodily from the chamber by friends.
 Republicans who voted for the bill were Cary and Stafford of Wisconsin. Democrats who opposed it were BTous- sard, Dupre, LaZaro and Morgan of Louisiana, on account of the schedule reducing sugar twenty-five per cent and sending 1t to the free list in three years, and c. B. Smith of New, York. Progressives who voted for the bill were Kelly and Rup1ey of Pennsyl- yania, Nolan of California. and Bryan of Washington. Kent of California, formerly a Republican but now an In ependent-Progressive also voted for the bill Progressive Leader Murdock and thirteen of his Progressive follow CTS voted with the minority. Repre- mot vote answering present. to his name.
 As soon as the House met in the afternoon Representative Mann, the Republican floor leader, moved to re- commit the bill to the Ways and Means committee with instructions that ] it be reported back immediately with l five distinct changes, These were the | insertion of the Republican Tariff Commission plan, the substitution of the Payne wool schedule, the redraft- | ing of the committee on Schedules in l | port, the redrafting of the other schedules along protective lines and the substitution of specific for a.d val prem rates throughout the bill.
 MT Underwood made the point of | order against that portion of the Mann | motion which related to the Tariff | omrnisston-that it was not germaane | to the subject matter of the Under wood bdIl For two hours a parlia- mentary argument followed, MT. Mann | insisting, with elaborate citation of that his motion was ger mane. Speaker Clark sustained the point of order. MT Mann appealed from the chairs decision. On Afr. motion this appeal was ta bled by 274 to 143.
 Mr. Murdock, for the third party, moved the adoption of substitute bill proposing a separate vote and consdd- eration Of the income tax section, the rewriting Of the cotton and woolen schedules in accordance with the Tar if Board reports, and the redrafting of the other rates along protective, but not prohibitive, lines The Murdock proposal was defeated 255 to 19. MT. NGurdock tried to get the roll called. but the vote against that motion was 264 to 42.
 MT Mann then reoffered his motion with the Tariff Commission part of 1t eliminated and it was again defeated on a roll call by a. vote of 121 to 296. In the discussion of the Mann motion Chairman Underwood made a signdfi- ,ant statement to the House to the eff feet that the Administration intended that might be made in connection with the revision of the tariff
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