Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-05-14
HOUSE APP PROVES
tariff MEASURE
Passes Underwood Bill by Vote
Of 281 to 1873.
PARTY LINES CLOSELY DRAWN
Five Democrats and Fourteen Progress.
sives Oppose Measure, but a Few
Of the Minority Support It.

Washington, May 9.-The Under.
wood tariff bill, proclaimed by the
Democratic party as the answer to it's
platform pledge to reduce the tariff
downward, was passed by the house.
The vote was 2S1 to 139, five Demo
Gratis voting against the bill and two
Republicans for it. Four Progressives
supported the measure and fourteen
opposed it, while one Independent
Progressive joined with the majority.
When Speaker Clark announced the
vote exuberant Democrats hoisted a
stuffed Democratic donkey over the
heads Of their colleagues in the rear
OF the chamber, faint ripple of ap-
plause followed and the gavel fell on
the first chapter in the history OF
President Wilson's extra session Of
congress:
Republicans and Progressives, led
respectively by Representatives Mann
and Murdoch, protested to the last
against the measure, the lowest tariff
bill ever written, and proclaiming, as
the Democratic avalanche bowled
them over, the virtues of tariff CON-
mission plans.
Republicans who voted for the bill
were Cary and Stafford of Wisconsin,
Democrats who opposed it were Brous-
sard, Dupre, Lazaro and Morgan of
Louisiana, on account Of the schedule
reducing sugar rs per cent and send
ing it to the free list in three years,
and c. B. Smith of New York.
Progressives who voted for the bill
were Kelly and Ripley of Pennsylva-
MIA, Nolan of California and Bryan of
Washington, Kent of California, for
merly Republican, but now an indie
pendent Progressive. Progressive
Leader Murdoch and thirteen Of his
Progressive followers voted with the
minority. Representative Copley, a
Progressive, did not vote, answering
present" to his name.
Bill Now Goes to Senate.
The tariff fight shifts from the
house, with it's overwhelming Demo
cratic majority, to the senate, where
the party's slim majority of six al.
ready has been reduced, as far as this
bill is concerned, to four. Unless
senators familiar with the progress
of such legislation are mistaken there
is now little prospect of final vote
on the bill before Aug. 1.
The bills passage through the SEN
ate will be fought every step by a
Republican organization, apparently
entirely in accord on this subject.
Democrats on the senate finance
committee, which will handle the
BILL express belief that it would 60
through in practically the same form
as it passed the house and that their
small majority will stand firm to the
last.
The subcommittee of the finance
committee which have been investi
eating schedules of the Underwood
bill for weeks plan to make few
changes In several schedules, but thu
wool, sugar and other schedules
which brought out the hard fight il
the house are not to be touched, &C
cording to the present plan.
The income tax and administration
features are to stand. Democrat
leaders acknowledge that the two sen
ators from Louisiana will not accep
the sugar schedule and that the,
might be willing to combine with 9th
ers to defeat the whole bill.
A change of two or more Demo
cratic votes would bring about tn
end of the Louisiana desire. A
though there have been reports abou
the senate that the Democrats inten
to allow one more senator to vot
against sugar and another to vot
against wool leaders of the tinanc
committee refused to confirm it.