The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-12
TARIFF BILL GOES
THROUGH, "A TO 81
eENATE MAJORITY VOTES Al.
MOST soLIDLY FOR ADMIN
iSTRATiON MEASURE.
TWO REPUBLICANS LEND AID
Ia Toilette and Pondexter Favor
New hedules-Louisiana Solons
Oppose Party. Bill.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 1.-THE
senate passed the tariff bill by vote
of A to 81. Two Democrats, Thorn.
| ton and Ransdell of Louisiana voted
against the bill and two Republicans
dexter of Washington voted for it.
The bill goes to the conference com
mittee, unless the house of represen
tatives shall do the unexpected and
| agree to the senate changes without
conference, just as the Senate Dem.
ocrats desire it to be.
May Go Through.
1t is the opinion among the Demo.
Gratis leaders that the bill will go
through the conference and be agreed
upon finally and signed by President
Wilson within two weeks. That is
the Democratic idea of the situation
and the prospects.
The Democrats had the votes to
put it through, and with the excep.
ton of Senators Gronna and McCum.
Der of North Dakota, who made gen.
eral speeches attacking the agricul.
tural section of the bill, Senator Mel.
son making one brief speech in op.
position to the general terms of the
measure and Senator Clapp one
speech mainly directed to an attack
upon the manner in which the bill
was framed, and speeches against
certain specific provisions of the bill
by the Iowa and South Dakota Repub.
lican senators, the representatives of
the agricultural states of the North.
west in the senate have had little to
say about the measure during its
passage.
Wilson Is Well Pleased.
President Wilson last night ex.
pressed qualification over the end OF
the long struggle in the senate. Sen.
ator Simmons, chairman of the
finance committee, who had piloted
the bill through the finance commit,
tee, the Democratic caucus and the
senate predicted that it's passage
would bring immediate stimulus to
the business of the country.
AS it passed the senate the tariff
bill represents an average reduction
of more than four 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 a conference committee from the
two houses will begin work Wednes'
day or Thursday to adjust these diff
ferences. Leaders of both houses
predict that the conference will con-
sumo less than two weeks time.
Endeavor to Hasten Congress.
The senate endeavored to hasten
the bill on it's progress to the White
House by naming its members of the
conference as soon as the bill passed
Vice President Marshall appointed
Senators Simmons, Stone, Williams
and Johnston, Democrats, and Sena
tors Penrose, Lodge and La Toilette,
Republicans, as the senate conferees
Senator Stone withdrew from the
committee and Senator Shively was
appointed in his place. The house
conferees, it was stated last night, will
be Representatives Underwood, Kitch,
en- and Rainey, Democrats, and Payne
and Fordney, Republicans.
Each house will have an equal vote
in the conference committee, even
though each house does not name the
same number of conferees.
Final Vote on Bill.
Following was the roll-call on the
tariff bill in the senate:
Yeas-Ashurst, Bacon, Chamberlain
Chiffon, Clarke, of Ark; Fletcher,
Gore, Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes
James, Johnston, Kern, Lane, Lewis
Martin, MARITIME, Meyers, Newlands,
O'Gorman, 0verman, Owen, Pittman
Pomerane, Robinson, Salisbury, Shat
roth, Sheppards, Shields, Shively, Sim
mons, Smith of Arizona, Smith of &C.
orgia, Smith of Maryland, Smith OF
South Carolina, Stone, Swanson
Thompson, Tillman, Vardaman
walsh, w Lid Il VI
lette, Republican, and Poindexter, Pro
gressive. Total, A.
Nays-Borah, Bradley, Brady, Bran
degree, Bristown, Catron, Clapp, Clark
of Wyoming, Colt, Cummins, Dilling
ham, Fall, Gallinger, Jackson, Jones
Kenyon, Lipyitt, Lodge, McCumber
Mclean, Nelson, Norris, Oliver, Page
Penrose, Perkins, Root, Sherman
Warren, Weeks and Works, Republic
ans, and Ransdell and Thornton, Dem
ocrats. Total, 81.
Paired and not voting:
Burton, Crawford, Golf, Dupont and
Smith and Townsend of Michigan, Re
| publicans; Bankhead, Bryan, Culber
son. Lea, Thomas and Reed, Demo
Gratis. Total, 10.
Absent and not paired Burleigf
and Gronna, Republicans. Total, 2.
Vacancy-Alabama, 1.