The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-03
MARSHALL SIGNS BILL
Presidents Signature Soon
After Getting Measure
To-day Is Expected.
ONLY TWO or PARTY REBEL
Senate RcrcdcS on Cotton Fu.
lures and House Will Do
Likewise.

WAsHINuToN. Oct c.-Tho 1'ndorwoot>
simmons tariff bill probably will be law
at midnight Friday
The Senate agreed to the confcrcnc. re-
port tonight by vote of SO 10 II.
Vt the same time the Senate reocd-d
from the Clark" amendment taxing cotton
futures and disagreed TO the Smth-Lcv.r
amendment voted into the bill by the
House
The report OF the conference committee
Will be laid before the House at noon and
the House will promptly recedr from tn.
smith Lever amendment. This Will he the
'inal act IN the passage of the tariff bill
The tariff bin was engrossed and signed
by N.ce-President Marshall Tonight.
Speaker Clark will sign II Tomorrow and
1t is expected that 1t will be presented to
President Wilson for his signature to-npr-
row afternoon. He has said that h. would
sign tn" bill as soon as II cam. to HIM
and If he does It VIII become a law at
midnight following
som" Of the Democratic icaders ar" in
cln.d to doubt whether or no, president
Wilson would sign the bill on Friday> Eut
il" - in, likely to be deferred by any 81.
p"rS'itior. tn. President Is un record As
regarding tn" number l3 as favorabl. L,
hts fortune and he viii hav" a splendid
ornortunity to deliver the Friday hne!e a
solar pl,xus blow.
Entire Report Read.
Although the tariff bill report MAY laid
before the Senate ~ noon, vote on II was
not taken until nearly o'clock this eve
ming. \ demand was made for the read ng
or the en,r" report. which consumed about
tNo hours Then ther. were speeches uI
senators simmons, renrose, burton. Pom
creme, GIonna and Others. Senator l.a
Toilette took no part ia the argument.
There was lass interest shown IN "a.
debate than At any other time during the
consideration Of tn" hill Tho bottom
seemed t. have fallen out of thu ta,I
controversy.
The roll call on the adupt'on ~ IN.
conference report showed fourteen Il. pub
lictn senators absent without pairs. Had
they been present ana voting a. pairc'
IN" report would have been adopted by a
majority OF five, witch is the real Demo
cratic najorty.
As on the passage of the bill senators
la Toilette and i'oindextcr Of Washing
ton, the former Republican and the
and Senators Thornton annI Ransdell @"
Louisiana. Democrats, voted against Il
The announcement oi the result aroused
no particular enthusiasm. Chairman
simmons was quietly congra,ula,cd by
Democrats and Republicans alik. on tine
successful manner in which h" has bundled
the bill II was recalled that on ia votes
taken in the senate on ancudmen's ~"
a nod pn
ono.
This SHOW ed party discipline a, q ha!.
never been known before in the history o:
the Senate. The Finance Committee made
a few concessions and changed some rates.
hut on every test of svength Senator
simmons had the pleasur" Of having mis-
View sustained by = majority,
The Parliamentary stains.
While ;hr Senate was considering tho
conference report leaders from both the
senate and the House were quietly CON
sidering the parliamentary status Of the
ta,if bill Some OF the parliamentary
experts, and probably a majority of the
Democratic leaders. contendcd that III"
action taken by the Senate to-uight would
pass the bill without any further action
by the House. Al one time It was ser!-
ously contemplated send,nS the hill direct
to the President without the interposition
of the House.
But Chairman Underwood. after taking
advice on the matter, concluded that y
was safer to have the House formally
recede from the Smth-I.ever amendment
concerning cotton futures. Representa-
tive Asher & Kinds. who is the Repubh.
can parliamentarian Representative Fitz-
gerald and most Of the Senate leaders
insisted that there was no necessity for
sending the bill back to the House.
Representative Charles F. Crisp who 10
the pa Elementary authority in the House
for the Democrats. insisted tnat the House
should recede formally from the action
il took Monday on the Smith-Levsr
amendment, He told Speaker Clark and
Representative Underwood that II thera
was any question as to the regularity OF
the manner Of passing the bill the ieEisla-
tion might be thrown into the courts and
much trouble result.
Speaker Clark was disposed 10 hold that
the House should again take control of
the bill to complete the concurrence
Senator Penrose enlivened the closing
hours Of the debate In the Senate by
spec = on the Angora goat The provo
cation for this was the fact that the
Angora goat industry Is confined mostly
to Representative Gamers district in
Texas.
The Texas representative is \ Demo
cratic member Of the Ways and Means
Committee. which put wool on the free list.
but protected the Angora goat OF Gamers
district with q 80 per cent duty. The
Senate ruthlcssly put Angora goat hair