The Prescott daily news., 1913-09-11
PASSED SENATE BY VOTE OF A TO 37-LA TOILETTE AND
 POINDEXTER AID.
REDUCES RATES 28 PER CENT
Flight for People Won Handsomely and Completely" President Will son Says-Wisconsn and
 Washington Allies Explain.

Washington, Sept. 11-With La Toilette, Republican, and Poindexter Progressive, voting for it, and Rans- dell and Thornton, Louisiana Demo- crats, against it, the administration tariff bill passed the senate by a vote of A to 37.
 AS It passed the senate, the tariff bill represents an average reduction Of more than per cent from the rates of the original bill that passed the house and nearly 2S per cent from the rates of the existing law. In many important particulars the sen- ate has changed the bill that passed the house, and conference commit tee of the two houses will begin work today or tomorrow to adjust these differences. Leaders of both houses predict that the conference will con- sume less than two weeks time.
 "A fight for the people and for free business which has lasted a long gen. eration through has at last been won, handsomely and completely" Presi- dent Wilson declared "A leadership and a steadfastness in counsel has been shown in both houses of which the Democratic party has reason to be very proud. There has been no weakness or confusion or drawing back, but a statesmanlike directness and command of circumstances.
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 q am happy to have been connect ed with the government Of the nation at a time when such things could hap pen, and to have worked in associa- tion with men who could do them. There is every reason to believe that currency reform will be carried through with equal energy. direct ness and loyalty to the general inter- est When this is done this first ses- sion of the sixty-third congress will have passed into history with an un- rivaled distinction.
 q want to express my special ad- miration for the devoted, intelligent and untiring work of Mir. Underwood and MT Simmons and the committee associated with them
 After the vote Senator La Toilette said:
 q realize what I did was a political sacrifice, but that within me com pelled me to vote for the bill. The tariff act of 1909 was but little short of crime; the bill just passed is not a Democratic measure, but is a pro- tective measure. Give the Democrats time and they will put everything on a free-trade basis, but they have not done it in the bill"
 Poindexter Explains Vote.
 Senator Poindexter said of his vote:
 "I voted for the senate tariff bin be- cause it is as a whole a better bill than the Payne-Aldrich law, now in force. Furthermore, it contains an in come tax which we have been trying to get for 20 years"
 Just before the voting on amend ments began Senator La Toilette yielded a few minutes of his time to Senator Thornton of Louisiana, who we ahout to desert his colleagues on the roll call
 Tt is hard for me to vote against this hill, said the Louisiana senator. 'Tt is bill made a party measure by the party with which l cast allegiance 46 years ago. It is harder still that l am forced to vote against it because my own party seeks now to strike vital blow against the great sugar in dustry of my state."
 The senator said he was charged with a duty from his state higher than any duty he owed to the Democratic party, and voting against the bill, he contended, was keeping his pledge to his state and to the Democratic party of Louisiana, which denounced free sugar in it's last convention. Free sugar, the senator concluded, would destroy the sugar industry of Louisi- ana and deliver the American people into the hands of a rapacious trust"