Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-09-12
SENATE PASSES
TARIFF MEASURE
LOUISIANA SENATORS DESERT
THEIR PARTY BECAUSE OF
FREE SUGAR CLAUSE.
LAFOLLETTE VOTES FOR BILL
Wisconsin Senator Casts Ballot Fer
Measure on Final Vote-Puts Duty
Before Political Obligation, He Says
Final Count Is "A 10 81.

Washington, d. c., Sept. 10.-The
democratic tariff revision bill passed
the senate at SAB o'clock Tuesday aft
ernoon by vote of A to 81, amid q
burst of applause that swept down
from crowded galleries and found its
echo on the crowded floor of the SEN
ate
It's passage was attended by sur
prises in the final moments of the yot-
ing when Senator La Toilette, repub-
lican, cast his vote with the democrats
and was joined a few moments later
by Senator Poindexter, progressive.
The democrats had counted through
out the long tariff fight upon losing the
votes of Senators Ransdell and Thorn
ton of Louisiana, democrats, who voted
against the bill Tuesday because it
would put sugar on the free list. Until
the names of Senators La Toilette and
POindexter were called, however, no
one knew definitely the stand they
would take and their votes were greet
ed with applause.
President Wilson expressed gratifi-
cation over the end of the long Strug-
gle in the senate. Senator Simmons,
chairman of the finance committee,
who had piloted tile bill through the
finance committee, the democratic
caucus and the senate, predicted that
its passage would bring immediate
stimulus to the business of the coun-
try.
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 inn
portant particulars, the senate has
changed the bill that passed the house.
and conference committee of the
two houses will begin work Wednes-
day or Thursday to adjust these diff
ferences. Leaders of both houses pre-
dict that the house will consume less
than two weeks time
The senate endeavored on Tuesday
to hasten the bill on it's progress to
the White house by naming it's men,
bers of the conference as soon as the
bill passed. Vice President Marshall
appointed Senators Stone, Williams
aud Johnson, democrats, and Senators
Penrose, Lodge and La Toilette, re-
publicanS as the senate conferees.
Senator Stone withdrew from the COM
mittee and Senator Shively was APP
pointed in his place. The house con-
ferees, it was reported Tuesday night.
will be Representatives Underwood,
Kitchin and Rainey, democrats, and
Payne and Fordney. republicans
Each house will have an equal vote
in the conference committee even
though each does not name the same
number of conferees.
Regarding his vote in favor of the
bill, Senator La Toilette said 81 real.
ize what | did was a political sacri-
flee, but that within me compelled me
to vote for the bill The tariff act of
1909 was but little short of a crime;
the bill passed today is not a demo
cratic measure, but it is protec-
tive measure. Every change made
by the finance committee was made By
way of adjustment to a protective ba'
sis, except such as free wool and free
sugar, which were determined upon
outside. They treated the agricul
tural schedule, | regret to say, on a
free trade basis and | would have re.
tanned more duty on cutlery and some
Sther articles in which there is no
data in order to be sure not to ruin
American production"