The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-23
Conference Report on Cur
rency Bill Sent Over
by the House
BEING ADOPTED BY
VOTE OF 298 TO 60
Thirty : Seven Republicans
and Dozen Progressives
Voted for 1t

Washington, D. c., Dec. 23.-Six
o'clock tonight is the hour set by the
White House officials for the president
to sign the currency bill. Five hours
later he plans to leave for Pass Chrls-
tian, Miss, for three weeks vacation
Senator owen and Representative
Glass, co-authors of the bill, the mem
bers Of the congressional banking com
mittee and the leaders in Congress nave
been invited to attend the ceremony
President Wilson will sign the bill with
two gold pens, presenting one to Sena-
tor Owen and the other to Representa-
tive Glass. The president had cabinet
session to-day and exchanged Christ
mas greetings with his official family.
The Senate met at 10 o'clock TINS
morning to take up consideration OF
the conference report on the currency
bill. under agreement to vote at Z:oo
this afternoon. The report was adopted
by the House at l0:4B last night by u
vote of 29S to 60 and it was then sent
TO the Senate. which had waited to re-
ceive it before adjourning for the night.
The debate was started as soon as the
Senate convened, Senators Brlstow ana
Nelson leading in the attack on the bill
Great Uproar When BilLPassed House.
Prolonged and uproarious cheers from
the Democrats greeted the announce
ment of the vote by Speaker Clark and
MANY members of the House hastened
over to the Senate to see the report re-
ceiyed there. Earlier in the evening the
Senate had agreed to vote not later than
2;30 o'clock this afternoon and the lead
ers regarded it as certain that the com
pleted bill would be in the hands OF
President Wilson for his signature be-
fore Tuesday night.
On the final vote, 81 Republicans, IL
Progressives and one independent, Kent
of California, voted ~sAii the 4lsselsy
for the report, and two Democrats, Cal
loway of Texas and Witherspoon OF Mis-
sissippi, joined the opposition.
The vote followed debate of nearly
three hours, during which the galleries
remained crowded with spectators, in
cluding many prominent figures in Off
cial life.
The House adjourned until 2:30 p. m.
to-day, when the leaders hope to put
through a Joint resolution for a recess
until Jan. II.
Republicans who voted for the report
were: Barton, Burke Is. d., Cooper,
Cramton, Curry, Davis, Dillon, Esch,
Farr, Frear, Haugen, Helgeson, Kelly
fMich.), Keiss, Kinkaid Nebraska, La
Toilette, Lenroot, Lindhurst, Miller,
Moss West Virginia), Nelson, Nolan,
Norton, Sinnott, Sloan, j. M. c. Smith
tMichigan), Samuel Smith (Michiganl
Smith (Minnesota), Stafford, Stevens
tMinnesota), Sutherland, Treadway,
Young North Dakota) Manahan, Mapes,
Stephens California;, Woodruff; total,
81.
Progressives who voted for the re-
port were: Bell California;, Bryan
(Washingtonl, Chandler, Falconer, Hull
ings, Kelly tPennsylvania), Lafferty,
Murdock, Temple, Macdonald, Thomson
Qllinois), Rupley; total, IL.
After the announcement of the vote,
a joint resolution proposed by Major
ity Leader Underwood, that the House
recess upon adjournment Tuesday un-
til Jan. IL, was adopted.
Senator Owen announced that a sep
arate bill to provide for guaranty OF
bank deposits would be considered in
the near future. This had been intimat-
ed in debate by Chairman Glass of the
House banking committee.