Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-01
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dent, and, l think when the commit
tee was organized those who were III
favor of the tolls exemption were in
the majority.
"A week in the committee would
be reasonable time for discussion"
No Comment by Wilson
The President had no comment to
make ON the result in the House, but
let 1t be known that he cherished no
1ll-feeling over those who, expressing
their convictions, opposed the repeal.
There was no comment made on the
speech of Speaker Clark.
Chairman OGorman said to-day he
would call the canals committee to
meet Tuesday. 1t is apparent that an
effort is to be made to amend the
House bill with clause asserting the
sovereignty of the United States over
the canal zone. Estimates of the
number of Democrats who will oppose
the repeal vary from eight to fourteen.
The repeal Is not yet won by any
means" said Senator Chamberlain,
leading the opponents.
Senator Morris, Republican, intro
duced an amendment to reaffirm the
right of the United States to grant an
exemption, If 1t desired to do so, and
to direct the President to begin nego-
tiations to arbitrate Great Britain IS
protest
Voting to surrender to Great Bri-
tain the right of the United States to
OBTAIN any special adantage from our
expenditure of S400.000,000, in con-
structing the Panama canal, the House
of Representatives, after one of the
most dramatic fights in It's history,
last night decided by a majority of
Sc, to repeal the provision exempting
n n a OF el,t L
payment of tolls
This victory of President Wilson is
decisive, but at what cost to the Dem
ocratic party only time will tell.
Speaker Champ Clark and Majority
Leader Underwood, who have stood
side by side in many a fight in the
Democratic party, battling in the ma
tional political area when Woodrow
Wilson was professor at Princeton,
had to bow tonight to the superior
strength of the newer leader.
The old-time leaders of the Demo-
cratic party, the men who guided the
party out of the wilderness. have been
thrown back into their trenches, and
newer leaders are already threatening
to take control of the House.
1t had been expected that Presidenl
Wilson would win, but it was not an
ticipated that he would have so large
q majority. The vote on the first test,
a technical question as to dispensing
with the third reading of the bill, was
247 to 100. 1t was indicated then for
the first time that the President 8
supporters could count ON majority
of rs.
There was some wavering on the
second test, which was on the motion
to recommit the bill with Instructions
to amend it so that the President
would be authorized to suspend the
working of exemption clause for two
years. The vote was 176 to 232 Thir-
ty-one Democrats, who were. support
ing the President, nevertheless favor
ed this compromise. They went back
to the repeater on the final vote, which
was on the passage of the repeal bill
itself, the vote being 247 to 161.
Speaker Clark took part in the
closing debate in the House and
among his telling sentences were
We built the Panama Canal We
built it on American soil. We have
fortified it; we will control it. I
would rather see the canal walled up
than give Great Britain control of It,
had rather see it filled up with gil
gantic boulders than to yield one iota
of control over it to any foreign ma
ton"
Now may the God of our fathers
who nerved 100000 backwoods
Americans to fling their gauge of bat
tie into the face of the mightiest mon
arch in the world may He lead
members to vote so as to prevent this
stupendous folly-this unquestionable
degradation of the American Repub-
lic.'
''The amazing request of the Presi-
dent for the repeal, like the peace of
God, passeth all understanding"
''It Is none of their business (for-
eign nations) what we do with our
coastwise trade"
'The repeal means the practical
abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine,
which the American people will main
tain at all haZardso