Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-20
Supporters Of immigration
Bill Lack Five Votes to
Defeat Presidents Action
in Vetoing It.
VOTE ON MEASURE
! STOOD 213 TO ia
Leaders Of the Opposition
to President Confident Of
Success, but Failed; Par
ties Split on Ballot.

washington, D. c., Feb. 19.-The
house today refused by vote OF 2l3
to ia to pass the Dillingham-Burnett
immigration bill over the presidents
Veto Five votes changed from the
neg tive to the affirmative would have
given the two-thirds necessary to over
ride the veto.
When President Taft's veto of the
bill went to the house today with the
bill, repassed over the veto by the
senate yesterday, democratic leaders
who con lcted the original fight IN the
house over the measure were predict
ing they could muster the necessary
two-.,irds vote to repass it today, al
though they looked for vigorous oppo-
sition from minority Of democrats
and republicans. The opposition was
stronger than had been thought.
Before the result was announced,
Representative Gardner of Mas
sachusetts, one of the leading advo-
Gates of the bill, changed his vote to
may" and after, the announcement
moved to reconsider the vote. Speaker
Clark overruled the motion. COINS
back to the time of Speaker Jones OF
Virginia In 1914 for the only record-
ed precedent on the subject.
Representative Gardner appealed
from the decision Of the chair but Il
nation by democratic Leader Under
wood to lay the motion on the table
blocked the attempt to continue the
contest.
The fight centered on the literacy
test feature OF the bill and the result
was distinct surprise. ,even ito those
most earnestly opposed to the meas
ure.
Call for Democrat Caucus.
Representative Burleson. chairman
of the democratic caucus, today called
q democratic caucus Of the incoming
house for noon, March 5, to name the
democratic members of the ways and
means committee of the sixty-third
congress and consider tariff bills.
Last official Visit
Pins for President Taft's last trip
as chief executive were made today.
Til president will leave Washington
late Friday night for New York at
tend the beginning of work on the Ma
tional American Indian Memorial at
Fort Wadsworth: attend the opening
of the New Lighthouse" of the New
York association for the blind, and
be guest at the banquet of the
American Peace and Arbitration
league. All these affairs will take
plac Saturday. Sunday the president
will attend church anC leave New York
in time to reach Washington shortly
after 6 p. m. Mrs. Taft and Mrs.
Thomas Laughlin. her sister, will ac-
company the president. They will be
guests in New York cf the presidents
brother Henry w. Taft
Wilson Satisfied.
President-elect Woodrow Wilson
through his personal aid. Col. Thomas
H. Birch, today sent word to the in.
augural committee that the plans for
his inauguration met with his approval.
Col. Pirch informed the committee
that neither Mr.. Wilson nor himself
had any change, to suggest. IA
Asks Taft to Speak.
James E. Smith Of ST. Louis today
invited President Taft to sreak before
the American peace congress in st.
Louis on Nav l. 2 and 3. Mr.. Smith
spent yesterday in Trenton with Presi-
dent-elect Wilson and extended to him
t same invitation.