Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-03
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SIGN BILL. At
9 P. NJ.
the TARIFF MEASURE SIGNED BY
SPEAKER CLARK And VICE.
PRESIDENT MARSHALL THIS M-
1EUNOON, AND NOW GOES TO
The WHITE HOUSE.
SOMETHING ABOUT
THE new MEASURE

Washington. d. c., Oct. 3.-The
house agreed to the tariff bill confer
ence report at 30 today constituting
the final action of that body on the
tariff bill. Speaker Clark overruled all
points of order made by members,
who contended that further action by
the house was not necessary.
Speaker Clark Immediately after
ward signed the bill, affixing his sig
nature at 1:25 o'clock. Cheers and
applause greeted the final action of the
house. The completed bill was sent
on its way to the senate for the sig
nature of the vice president, when it
will be ready for transmission to the
White House, where the president will
sign it at o'clock tonight.
Vice President Marshall signed the
bill at 1:34 this afternoon.
The tariff bill bearing the sigma
lures of Speaker Clark and Vice Pres
ident Marshall, the first Democratic
measure since 1894, reached the
white house at 2:30 o'clock, but the
president adhered to his plan not to
sign it until 8 o'clock tonight, the hour
fixed by the administration leaders to
witness the ceremony.
President Wilson refused through
out the day repeated requests from
moving picture concerns and photo
graphs to be present when the tarlH
bill is signed. He took the position
that the signing of legislative act OF
so great Importance should be dig
nified occasion, but the requests were
pressing in on the White House from
all sides and there was some hope
that the picture men might at least
photograph the group after the bill
was signed.
The president decided to sign the
bill with two pens. The pen With
which he will write the name Wood
row. will be given to Representative
Underwood and the other, with which
he will complete his signature, will be
presented to Senator Simmons, who
led the tariff fight in their respective
branches of congress.
President Wilson began work to-
day with the prospect of signing at
O'Clock tonight the first great reform
measure of his administration and the
first Democratic tariff revision bill pas
sed in nearly score of years. Demo
cratic leaders of the house and senate
had smoothed the way for the last leg
islative step for the approval of the
bill. 1t remained only to secure the
formal action of the house OF repre-
sentatives in receding from its cotton
futures tax amendment to complete
the tariff bill The tariff conference
report, completed by the senate last
night, was ready for submission to the
house as soon as that body met. 1t
was expected that it would be acted
on and the tariff bill sent to the pres
ident before the end of the afternoon.
President Wilson, after conference
with administration leaders early to-
day, planned to sign the tariff bill at
9 o'clock tonight. Arrangements for
ceremonies to attend the final act in
the prolonged tariff legislation were
made by the president as soon as it
seemed assured that the measure
would reach him some time today.
Invited by the president to witness the
signing of the measure were Chairman
Underwood and members of the ways
and means committee: Chairman Sim
mons and members of the finance COM
mittee: Vice President Marshall Pres
ident Pro Tempore Clarke, and Ma
jority Leader Kern. of the senate:
Speaker Clark, members of the cabi-
net and newspaper correspondents.
Parliamentary leaders of the house
divided over the course to be pursued
with the tariff bill as soon as the con
ference report was received from the
senate at noon. Mr.. Underwood, fol-
lowing the plan agreed on yesterday.
moved that the house recede from the
Smith-Lever cotton futures tax amend.
1iient, since the senate had voluntarily
given up the Clarke amendment.
Representative Kinds, Republican,
and former parliamentary clerk, and
others, said the house had nothing to
act upon and should not set pre-
cedent that might prove troublesome.
Representative Crisp, Of Georgia,
also former parliamentary clerk OF
the house, upheld Mr.. Underwood, as
did the majority of the Democrats.
Underwood and Crisp insisted that the
SE1ith-Lever amendment still remain
ed to be acted on while Representa-
tives Kinds, Sherley and FITZGERALD
held that by receding from the Clarke
amendment the senate had carried the
whole subject out of the tariff bill.
Speaker Clark held that unless the
hcuse receded from the compromise
Of the Smith-Lever amendment, as the
senate did, the two branches of con-
gress would not be in accord.
Mr.. Underwood's motion to recede
from the cotton futures amendment
was then carried without roll call,
with practically no negative votes.
This bill is of too vast Importance
fol the house not to clear up any