Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-03
WILSON WILL SIGN
NEW TARIFF BILL
At 9 TONIGHT
President Announces His Inten.
tiOn to Sign New Bill Tonight
at White House.
is FIRST GREAT REFORM
MEASURE OF DEMOCRATS
income Feature Will Affect
Every Person Whose Annual
Earnings Are $1,000.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-The House
agreed to the tariff bill conference re-
port at 1:22 today, constituting the
final action of that body on the tariff
bill.
President Wilson will sign the
measure at 9 o'clock tonight
Speaker Clark overruled all points
of order made by members who con-
tended that further action by the
House WIS not necessary.
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. Representative
Underwood, following the plan agreed
upon yesterday, moved that the
House recede from the Smith-Leyer
cotton futures tax amendment, since
the Senate had voluntarily given up
the Clark amendment on the same
subject.
Representative Kinds, Republican,
and former parliamentary clerk, and
Representatives Sherley and Fitzger-e
aid declared the House had nothing
to act upon, and should not set
precedent that might prove trouble
some Representative Crisp, Of
Georgia, also a former parliamentary
clerk of the House, upheld the posi-
ton taken by Representative Under
wood, as did the majority of the
Democrats. Representatives Under
wood and Crisp insisted that the
Smith-Leyer amendment still re-
mained to be acted on, while Repre-
sentatives Kinds, Sherley and Fitz-
gerald held that receding from the
Clark amendment, the Senate had
carried the whole matter out OF the
tariff bill
Clark and Marshall Sign Bill.
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
signature of the Vice President, who
signed 1T at 1:34 o'clock It now is
ready for transmission to the White
House, where the President will sign
4 il at 3 o'clock tonight.
President Wilson after a conferences
with administration leaders early to-
day planned to sign the tariff bill af
8 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
I seemed assured that the measure
would reach him some time today.
Many to witness Signature.
Invited by the President to witness
/ the signing of the mesure were:
! Chairman Underwood and members
: of the ways and means COMMITTEES.
! Chairman Simmons and members OF
/ the finance committee, Vice Presi-
dent Marshall. President Pro Tenn
/ pore Clark and Majority Leader
Kern. of the Senate; Speaker Clark.
members of the cabinet and news
paper correspondents.
/ President Wilson refused throughout
| the day repeated requests from NOV
/ ing-picture concerns and photograph
/ ers to be present when the tariff bill
1 is signed. He took the position that
the signing of legislative act of so
! great Importance should be a digni-
/ fed 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.
VIII Use Two Pens.
1 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
+, be will complete his signature, viii be
! presented to Senator Simmons. These
are the men who led the tariff fight
in their respective branches of Con-
1 gress.
Presiden. Wilson looked forward
with eagerness to the moment when
the engrossed bill, the fruits of many
months of endeavor to enact tariff
reform in accordance with the dec
laration of the party platform. would
be placed upon the desk. Having fol-
4 lowed every detail of the action in
conference and since that time in
the Senate and House. he was thor
oughly familiar with the bill and
ready to affix the signature which
would transform it into law.
Treasury officials today began the
task of redrafting the regulations for
the enforcement of the rev tariff
law.
Law In Effect Tomorrow.
While the law goes into effect to-
! morrow, collectors of customs VIII
continue to assess the duties of the
old Payne -Aldrich act, Withholding
/ final liquidation of each entry until
the receipt of copies of the new law.
In this way it is expected there VIII
be no delay in passing importations
through the customs house and the
government will be guaranteed the
proper duties.
II will probably require ten days
for the customs service in all parts