New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-04

He said that he was aware ina. VI.
question had arisen once before ana 'i"'
sneaker Reed had held informally That II
was not necessary for the House 10 ie
cede on an amendment TO oe"
amendment in the event the oenNIe
backed down on the original proPos'''o'i'
as in this case.
Nevertheless" said Mr.. UNDERWOOD
81 feel that / would not be perior"'ihs
my duty to the country II 1 iel' any
question whatever about this Dill De-
spite the opinion of parliamen'arla's
that sue. a motion is supernuous'
would prefer to have the House receae'
%. ,ha, there may be no further contro-
versy her, fter. ,
eft Is evident that the Senate anu
House cannot get together on cotton TAX
legislation. one body proposing 10 TAX ou'
Of existence and the other to regulate
tho exchanges. This legislation can be
taken up later.
Now the Senate has receded from its
amendment, for which ne adopted sun
sti,ute. and has disagreed to our subsu-
tute. Although many think that this eids
the matter. | want TO make sure a''" ;
have therefore decided TO ask the fiouse
to recede from it's substitute.
In an exhaustive parliamentary areu-
mani Mfr sherley. of Kentucky. held that
the Underwood motion was unnecessary
The Senate having receded from 'he
Clarke amendment. he contended there
was nothing before the House except the
nerf.cted tariff act awaiting 'ne
Speakers signature.
when the groundwork Is destroyed the
superstructure falls with 1t" SAID MI
sberlev who characterized as void, but
fraught with future dangers. any action
nv the House I'm receding from its
changes In an original Senate amendment
after the upper body itself had knocked
the foundation from under the Original
proposal.
Parliamentarians Disagree.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, formerly pariia-
mentarian. DISAGREED with the former
parlIamentarian. Asher Kinds. He Doubt
ed that the. Senate could wipe out the
House amendment by backing down on
its own. The journal would show, MI
Crisp said, that the House amendment
had been disagreed to In the Senate while
M subsequent action was taken In the
House.
Safety is the better policy" said Judge
crisn THAT Is the rule ! have tried To
follow as a lawyer, and II will certainly
do no harm to recede here to-day even IL
1t is declared unnecessary.
1T is not a question OF doing something
To-day that will do no harm" exclaimed
Mr. FITZGERALD, OF New York. 1T is
question OF whether the House is going to
take an unnecessary action which may
nlague us in future legislation. The House
should act on nothing unless 1t is essen
tial to act
What is before the House?' the New
York member went on. 1T cannot be the
Clarke amendment, for the Senate has re-
coded from that amendment, which II put
In the bill. Therefore, that recession car
ried out automatically our amendment TO
the amendment Suppose we should de-
ride now that we would concur In the
Clarke amendment Where would we be ?
The Senate would say, Why, there is not
any Clarke amendment. We've eliminated
it."
Speaker Clark finally overruieo the
Kinds point of order, saying that on r
great measure of this kind no possible
loophole for attack should be left for
skilled lawyers, who might raise the aues-
ton OF actual agreement between the two
houses
The instant that the Speaker signed the
enrolled bill II was rushed over to tho
Senate. ce-Presdent Marshall signed
the measure at precisely :So o'clock but
there was no demonstration when he an
nounced that he had done so. The act
then was promptly carried TO the White
House for the signature of the Chief Ex-
ecitiNe