The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-08
VOTE ON TARIFF BILL NOW MADE
 PARTY MEASURE
45 Out of 49 Democratic Sena. tors Commit Themselves to It in Caucus--One Mai
 Ority in Senate

Washington, July s-A4ter consider bers of .&he Senate assembled in con ference late yesterday afternoon and adopted the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the Tariff bill agreed to by this conference, in it's amend ed form, hs declared to be a. party measure. and we urge its undivided support as a. duty by Democratic Sen ators without amendment: provided, however. that the confer ence of the Finance Committee may, after refer euce or otherwise, propose amend ments to the btllt
 Forty-five of the forty-n1ne Demo- cratic Senators present voted for the resolution The only vote cast against it was by Senator NewIands of Neva- da. Senators Thornton and Ransdel1 Of Louisiana and Senator Shafroth of Colorado did not vote. After the vote was taken Senators New1ands' and Shafroth said they would vote for the Tar1ff bill on it's final passage, but they did not intend to permit them selves to be bound by any caucus ac- ton.
 Only two Democratic Senators were absent from the conference, Senators C1rlberson of Texas, who is i'll, and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who walked out of the conference the other day after his proposed progressive ex- else tax on the production of manu- lectures had been rejected. But Sem ators CuIberSon and Hitchcock will vote for the bill when it comes up for final passage.
 This means that the bill will have forty-nine votes in the Senate or a majority of one. From what was Said, however, by the Senators who showed they were opposed to any effort to make the conference action binding, 1t is apparent that at least four Demo- cra4e will hold themselves free to vote against particular items in the bill, notably those to place raw sugar and Democratic leaders obtain support from some of the low tariff RepsIb- 11cans, the sugar and wool items may not be adopted in their present shape.
 The adoption of the resolution de- %clar4ng, the Tarfn bill to be g. party measure was preceded by test vote to determine the attitude of the eau GUS. This vote was taken in a rather informal way on the suggestions that Senators present who intended to vote Tor the Tariff bill, as a whole, should signify it by answering 'FYes" when their names were called, while those having the contrary intention should answer ''No-" Senators Thornton and RansdelI cast the only votes in the negative, but Senators NewIands and Shafroth did not vote.
 There was considerable discussion over an amendment reported by the Democratic members of the Finance Committee to the conference proV1d- ing that raw wool should be placed on the free list on Oct. 1, and that the provisions reducing the duties on manufactures of wool should become effective on Dec. l. Senator Walsh of Montana. led the opposition to this amendment He and the others plead ed that more time should be given to both wool growers and wool nanu- lecturers to arrange for marketing their product now on hand
 These pleas were successful, and the conference, with the consent of Chairman Simmons and other mem bers of the Finance Committee, amended the provision so that raw wool will go on the free list on Dec. |, and the reduction on the duties of wool manufactures will go into effect on Jan. 1.
 Chairman Simmons plans to hold a meeting of the Finance Committee. to which the Republican members will be invited. on Wednesday. when the Tariff bill as HeVised by the Finance Committee and the Democratic eau GUS will be submitted formally to the Republican members, and an effort will be made to reach an agreement with them by which 1t will be re- ported to the Senate on Thursday.
 It Is the hope of Chairman Simmons that at Thursdays session of the Sen ate an agreement will be reached by unanimous consent by which the de- bate on the Tariff bill will be begun next Monday, July IA. Should no such agreement be reached the Senate will have a session on Friday and on Saturday, if necessary, in order to arr range the programme that Chairman Simmons has mapped out.