The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-05-13

June 1. In the meantime the senate
finance committee will study the bill
while the house ways and means COM
mittee will organize committees pre-
paratory to the transaction Of business
next month.
Republicans and progressives, led
respectively by Representatives Mann
and Murdock, protested to the last
against the measure, the lowest tariff
bill ever written, an" proclaimed -
the democratic avalanche bowled them
over, the virtues of different tariff
commission plans.
Republicans who voted for the bill
were Cary and Stafford of Wisconsin.
How They Voted.
Democrats who opposed it were:
Broussard, Dupre, Lazaro and Morgan,
Of louisiana, on account of the sched
ule reducing sugar 25 per cent, and
sending 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,
formerly republican, but now an in
dependent progressive, also voted for
the bill. Progressive Leader Murdock
and thirteen of his progressive follow
ers voted with the minority. Repre-
sentative Copley, a progressive, did~not
vote, answering present" to his name.
In the final consideration of the
measure Minority Leader Mann made
a lengthy speech on point of order
by Mr.. Underwood to rule out provis-
ion for a tariff board in the motion by
Representative Payne, of New York, to
recommit the bill Speaker Clark sus-
tanned the point of order. Mann ap-
pealed from the chair and a roll call
was taken on Mr., Underwood's motion
to table the appeal, the democrats
winning, 274 to 143. Progressive Lead
er Murdock also moved to recommit
with instructions to nrovide for q nom
partisan tariff commission, but he
failed to get roll call and then the
Pssa!e motion to recommit, minus
the tariff board provision, was lost,
12S to 296
Final Vote About August l.
Tomorrow the tariff fight shifts
frorl the house with It's overwhelming
democratic majority, to the senate,
where the party's slim majority of six
already has been reduced as far as
this bill is concerned, to four. Unless
senator's familiar with the progress of
such legislation are mistaken there is
now little prospect of final vote on
the bill before August 1.
The bills passage through the SEN
ate will be found at every step by a
republican organization, apparently
entirely in accord on this subject and
entirely willing to spend unlimited
time and energy in an effort to defeat
it. Leaders of the democrats on the
senate finance committee, which will
handle the bill, expressed the belief to-
night that it would go through in prac-
tically the same form as it passed the
house and that their small majority
will stand firm to the last.
Several Changes Planned.
subcommittee of the finance COM
mittee, which have been investigating
the schedules of the bill for the last
few weeks, plan to make few changes
in several schedules, but wool and
sugar and other schedules which
brought out the hard hgntlng IN III
house are not to be touched, accord
ing to the present plan. The income
tax and administration features also
are to stand. Democratic leaders ac-
knowledging that the two senator's
from Louisiana will not accept the
sugar schedule and that they might be
willing to combine with others to de-
feat the whole bill.
A change of two more democratic
votes would bring about the end the
Louisianians desire Although there
have been reports about the senate
that the democrats intend to 'lloW
one more senator to vote agaist gar
and another to vote against wool, lead
ers of the finance committee today r"
fused to confirm # Republicans,
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