Connecticut western news., 1914-04-02
BILL IS
 PASSED BY HOUSE
Announcement of Vote Greeted
 With Prolonged Cheering,
WILSOa VICTORY EXPECTED

Speaker Clark, Closing Debate Against
 Repeal, Dsappoints Those Who Ex- peoted sHim to Attack President.
 Makes Denial of Personal Issue-RoII
 Call Results In Majority of 87.
 The actual passage of the repeal bill came as an anticlimax to the excite ment which had pervaded the great hall of representatives up to and dur ing the remarkable speech of Champ Clark. It was preceded by brief speech by Representative Adamson. who had led the administration forces through the long and arduous hours of four days of legislative battle.
 At the conclusion of his speech MT. Adamson moved the engrossment and third reading of the bill. This under ordinary circumstances is more or less of formality, but Republican Leader Mann, realizing that a demand for q record vote should prove an excellent test of the strength of the administra tion forces and knowing that 1t would be followed by the motion to reconlmit with instructions as to fundamental changes in the phraseology and intent of the bill, on which there would be undoubtedly defections from the ad- ministration's strength, demanded the yeas and nays.
 Upon this demand the house rose ell masse to demand the roll call, and with an extraordinary silence the roll proceeded. Not once in the course of the thirty-fve minutes required to call and tabulate the roll did the speaker have to ask for order. The house was as silent as tomb except for the pene- trating tones of the reading clerk call ing the names in his sing song voice and the staccato Ayes" and Noes from the members. Even the crowded galleries, which had been a-tiutter and a-buzz all day, observed the necessity for silence. This roll call resulted in an administration victory by a vote of PAT to 160, q net majority of ST for the motion Everybody was expecting n Wilson victory, but the announcement of the vote by the speaker was greeted with prolonged cheering from the Dem ocratic side of the house and scattering applause from the Republicans.
 Speaker Clark, closing the debate against the repeal, disappointed thos" who expected him to attack President Wilson. He disclaimed any personal issue with the president, declared he believed MT. Wilson was actuated by the highest patriotic motives and that there was no breach in the Democratic party. He argued at length against the presidents contention and declarcG that "the amazing request of the pres ident for the repeal. like the peace of God, passeth all understanding" He diselaimed any personal issue betweei. | the president and himself.
 Speaker Clark said, We want war with no nation, but rather than surreu- i der our right to complete sovereignty over every square foot of our globe en
 circling domain we will cheerfully and | courageously face world in arms.
 He attacked the attitude of the house | Democrats who have led the presi l dents fight for the toll exemption re peal Referring to published declara. i tions that his opposition to the presi 1 dent was the opening gun of his fight 1 for the nomination in 1916" the speak
 CT declared he had told all to whom he
 had spoken about the 1916 situation that if the presidents administration
 were a success Mir. Wilson would be reelected and if it were failure ''the nomination would not be worth hay ing" As to his own future, the speak CT insisted he could be happy without the presidency. the speakership or even
 with retirement to private life should his constituency so determine.