Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-27
TARIFF FIGHT ENDS
UNDERWOOD BILL PASSED BY
THE SENATE AFTER FOUR
MONTHS DEBATE
FINAL VOTE WAS a. TO 81
La Toilette and Poindexter Voted
With the Democrats for the Meas
ure-AiI the New Amendments
Were Voted Down.


Washington, D. C.-The end of the
two months struggle over the tariff
in the senate came rather quietly
shortly before O'Clock in the after
noon, when tie first big legislative
measure of the Wilson administra-
ton was passed by a vote of A ayes
to 81 noes.
Senator Thornton and Senator
Ransda1l of Louisiana, Democrats.
deserted their party and voted with
the Republicans, while La Toilette
and Poindexter, progressive Repub-
licans. cast their lot with the Demo
Gratis and voted for the bill after
amend it so as to make it more near
ly conform to the progressive Repub-
licxn scheme of tariff revision.
TWO Unexpected Ayes
When vice-President Marshall an
nounced the result of the final vote
and declared the great measure had
passed the senate, there was applause
on the floor and In the galleries, but
it did not compare in vigor and noisi-
ness with the applause that had fol-
lowed the affirmative votes of La Fol
lette and Poindexter. There was no
applause in any quarter and no sort
of demonstration when the two Liuisi-
anian senators cast their votes against
the bill.
without a pair was Burleigh of Maine.
who is i'll. Senator Culberson OF
Texas and Senator Dupont of Della
ware, who were also absent on ac-
count of illness, were among the SEN
of
Was Great Fight.
The story of the fight for the enact
ment of the measure in the form in
which the President desired it is one
of the most remarkable in the his
tory of congress. That the President
and the senate manag gers should have
won so signal a victory in view of
the fact that the Democratic major
ity in the body consisted of a single
vote reflects the highest< credit on the
firmness and practical craftsmanship
of the President and those who have
stood at the forefront of the battle
during the four months that the tariff
measure has been under considera-
ton in the finance committee and in
the senate itself
To Conference Now.
The bill will now go to the con-
ference committee of the two houses.
where it is expected the differences
will be adjusted within two weeks
and the measure sent to the Presi-
dent for his signature. It is hoped
that this final contamination of the
Democratic tariff program viii be
reached before the twenty-fifth of the
month.
AS it passed the senate the Tariff
bill represents an average reduction
of more than 4-per cent from the rates
of the original bill that passed the
house, and nearly % per cent from
the rates of the existing law. In many
important particulars, the senate has
changed the bill that passed the
house, and the conference committee
will adjust these differences.
TIL Tariff bill as it passed the SEN
ate retained the principal house pro-
visions including free sugar and free
raw wool, but revised other rates
still further downward. The average
ad valorem rate in the bill now is ap-
proximately &c per cent, a decrease
of % per cent from existing rates and
nearly per cent lower than the rates
of the house bill.