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

dIGOI lOT lIlc men WHO o'lS dSSVN4NNNN
with me. and the honor is going TO
come from them. / am their associate.
can only complete the work which
they do. i can only counsel when they
Task for counsel. can come In only
when the last stages OF the business
ere reached.
And / covet this honor for them
quite as much as l covet 1t for my
self: and covet II for the great party
of which / am 81 member because that
party is not honorable unless 1t re-
deem its name and serve the people or
the United States.
Half Through the Journey.
so | feel tonight like man VINO is
lodging happily In the inn which ats
half way along the Journey and that IN
the morning. with fresh impulse. we
shall 20 the rest OF the journey, ana
sleep at the Journeys end like men with
quiet consciences. knowing that we have
served our fellow men and have thereby
tried TO serve God"
1t was an unusual spectacle which at
tended the completion Of legislative re-
form that had been seven months III
Congress. and embraced tariff revision
Of a most farreaching character.
Happy and jubilant, the invited guests
came to the executive offices IheV
chatted and TESTED with the President
in an anteroom while waiting for the
full group TO appear. When the mem
bers of the Senate Finance Committee
and the House Ways and Means Com
mi,tee finally arrived Vice-Presideht
Marshall was ushered into the Presi-
dents Office followed by Speaker Oiarh'
Representative Underwood and members
of the Cabinet and Congress committees
and their friends. No photographers
were admitted, as the President regarded
the occasion as too solemn 10 DE us
turbed by hashlight apparatus
The guests crowded about the Presi'
6erts desk over which an electric lamp
threw a bright glow
,T chose o o'clock" explained the Presi-
dent slowly, ION the advice of the Az
torney General. in order that the p''
might he signed after business transac-
tons everywhere. incIudlng ID"
cisco. he'd closed for the DAY
ct will not say anything about the on''
Mr.. Wilson added. with a Smile un'''
I have signed It. l don't want II 10 se'
away from me.
Sioned with Two Pens
pror,ntlv AT 900 o'clock the PRESIDENT
hosor writing. and at $40 he had written
the words Approved $40 p. m-' oc'ooeI'
1914 Woodrow Wilson" on the lllth pass
of parchment containing the enerosseo
bill. sos ,.n
As the President arose ana hahueu INC
t1,o mems TO the men who had steereo 'he
measure successfully through both houses
~ Congress there was an euthusiasuc o''-
burst of handclappins.
Tho President Lad not intended TO make
a long speech and had not even prepared
a statement. but was moved on the spui
OF the moment to express his gratincat'oh'
The small but distinguished audience
that heard the Presidents speech cro"ueu
about him afterward with Congratulations
Leading figures of the Democratic party
Sneaker Clark. Secretary Bryan ana rep
,xaxentative Underwood-stood together
: snonsors with the President for the nrst
bis niece Of legislation that had been &C
complished In the Democratic programme.
They gave the President their personal
congratulations and reiterated promises
OF support.
wen be coming here again In a snort
time To see the currency BILL said Sec
rotary Bryan, and Secretary McAdoo
spoke with equal confidence.
While the President was surrounded by
members of his official family, there was
none happier than Joseph H. "isoh'
Younger brother of the Chief E1ecutiVe'
who came here from Baltimore to-nlght
10 witness the signing. Mrs. wilson ana
her daughters are still at Cornish \. H.
the summer capital
Besides the officials a large number oil
newspaper men crowded into the Presi-
dents office There was an informal re-
ception for few minutes, and then the
Underwood Simmons tariff law was car
ried away 10 the Department OF state ana
derosited in the archives along with other
historic pieces of legislation.
Knotty Parliamentary Question.
The final action Of the House on the
tariff bill was preceded by parlla-
mentary debate of an unusual and impor-
tant nature the question presented being
one OF the knottiest with which parlia-
mentary sharks have had to deal in
years.
This question was. Did the tariff bill
actually pass when the Senate receded
last night from the Clarke cotton tax
amendment or must the House now re-
cede from it's amendment to the Clarke
amendment?
The consensus of opinion was that IN
wIping out the Clarke amendment the
Senate removed the foundation OF the cot
ION tax proposition, and that the House
amendment, a superstructure. necessarily
fell with the foundation. Nevertheless
sneaker Clark, who had expressed himself
privately as OF that opinion, ruled that the
tariff bill was of such Importance that
the House ought to go through the per-
f,nctory performance OF receding from
ITS substitute for the Senate amendment
and this was done by unanimous vote.
The House receded. and thus made sure
OF passing the bill, at % o'clock. The
Sneaker signed the measure at l:25 o'clock.
and at 1:27 o'clock the enrolled copy of the
new act was laid before the House as "a
ranort from the Committee on Enrolled
Bills
a. Meanwhile, Mr.. Underwood, the major
atty leader. was the centre OF throng OF
Democrats. who pressed forward TO con-