The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-13
Only Presidents Signature Is Needed to Make
 Bill Law
EXPECT TO SIGN THE
 MEASURE MONDAY
Flashes of Heat Mark House Action in Accepting Senate Amendment. Underwood Votes for
 Amendment

Washington. June 12.-Only Presi- dent Wilson's signature is necessary to repeal the clause of the Panama canal act exempting American coastwise ship ping from tolls. The long and bitter fight in Congress came to an end today when the House. after brief debate and without the formality of a conference, accepted by vote of 216 to T the Sen ate amendment specifically reserving all rigts the United States may have under the Hay -Pauncefote treaty or otherwise.
 The President is expected to sign the measure Monday It was just little more than three months ago that he addressed the House and Senate in joint session, urgently asking for repeal of the exemption clause that the nation might keep its treaty obligations. Speaker Clark was out of the city to- day, but he and Vice President Mar shall will attach their signatures to- morrow and send the bill to the White House.
 Before the ending of the contest by concurring in the Senate amendment, the House voted down, ITS to 10S, a proposal advanced by Representative Moss of West Virginia to attach to the repeal a fiat declaration of the right of the United States to exempt it's vessels from tolls and of the sovereignty of the United States over the canal zone.
 Flashes of Heat
 During the discussion today there were fishes of heat in the debate which characterized the original considera- tion of the measure. Representative Underwood, the democratic leader, al- though voting for the Senate amend ment, said that Congress should never have made this .un-American surren- der.% and called the amendment "inef- fective and negative.' Republican Lead CT Mann, who had vigorously opposed repeal supported the amendment de- claring it left the entire question of the rights of this country to be determined in the future.
 Representative Glass of Virginia att tackled the democratic leaders who op- posed the measure. He denounced the Outrageous assaults made on the Presi- dent by the republicans, and expressed indignation at the leaders of the dem ocratic side who have aspersed their own colleagues because they would not follow them into the camp of the reYub- lican party in advocacy of republican doctrine"
 MT. Speaker" he added, T think you will search the political records of this country In vain to find such spectacle as we have found here in this Con gress-the leaders of the democratic party deserting their party and stand ing shoulder to shoulder with republi- can leaders against democratic Presi- dent'
 Parties Split
 Twenty democratic members voted against the motion to concur in the Sem ate amendment. They were: Brockson, Broussard, Conry, Deitrick, Donohoa Driscoll, Dupre, Estopinal, Fitzgerald. Gallivan, Harrison. Kitching, Lee of s Pennsylvania, Mitchell, O'Shaughnessy O'Leary, Patten of New York, Phelan Raker and Reilly of Connecticut.
 Thirty-seven republicans and three progressives joined the democrats in support of the motion. They were: Re publicans-B Bartholdt, Barton Britten Burke of South Dakota, Butler, Davis Dillon, Esch. Frear, Gardner, Gillett Goode, Green of Iowa, Greene of Yer mont, Hamilton of Michigan, Hamilton of New York, Haughen, Helgeson Humphrey of Washington, Johnson of Washington, Kinkaid of Nebraska, La Toilette. Lenroot Mckenzie Madden Mann, Morgan of Oklahoma, Nelson Platt, Plumley Prouty, Slemp, Smith of Michigan, Steenerson Segens of Min nesota Sutherland and Volstead.
 gressves-Lindbergh, Rupley and Thompson of Illinois voted for the mo- tion.