Evening journal., 1914-06-13
145 House MAJORITY
FOR Tolls Repeater
Speaker Clark Stays Away;
Underwood Supports
Measure
TO PRESIDENT FOR
SIGNATURE MONDAY

WASHINGTON, June 13.-By
majority Of 145 votes the House yes
/ tcrday afternoon adopted the Senate
amendment TO the Administration
bill repeating the free tolls provision
4 OF the Panama Canal law When the
original bill passed the house on
March 81 the majority was only S6.
4 the vote being 248 to 162. Yesterday
the vote was 216 to "a.
4 The President probably will sign
4 the bin Monday. He was prepared to
sign it last night but owing to the
/ fact that Speaker Clark was out Of
/ the city and his signature must be
on the parchment before It goes to
/ the White House, the President was
/ compelled to postpone the signing
When the original bill was before the
House for a vote Speaker Clark left
the chair and from the floor de-
nounced the bill.
The official count yesterday showed
/ that twenty Democrats voted against
/ the bill while thirty-seyen Republic
cans voted for It. Eight Progressives
voted IN the affirmative and three in
the negative. Representative William
Kent, Of California, the independent
member Of the House, voted for the
bill
Democrats Against II.
Here are the Democrats Who voted
against the bill: Brockson, Del
Broussard, Conry. N y; Deitrick,
Mass; Donohue, Pa; Driscoll, N. Y;
Dupre, Estopinal, La, Fitzgerald NJ.
! ". Galivan Mass; Harrison, Miss:
] - - / Do
Mass OLeary, OShaunessy, r. Il;
Patten, N "; Phelan, Mass; Baker,
Csl Reilly Conn.
These Republicans voted for the
bill. Bartholdt. Mo-; Barton, Neb.;
Britten, Ill; Burke, S. Oak; Butler,
Pa: Dillon, S. Oak; Davis, Mimi. !,
Esch, Wis. Frear, Wis; Gardner
Mass Gillett, Mass. Good, Ia;
Greene, VT; Green, Ia. Hamilton,
Mich. Hamilton, N Y; .Haugen, Ia !;
EIelgesen, n. Oak; Humphrey,
Wash: johnson, Wash; Kinkaid,
Neb.; La Toilette, Wash; Lenroot,
Wis., Mckenzie, Ill; Madden, ILL.,;
Mann, H., Morgan, Okla; Nelson,
/ wis., Plat N. "; Plumley, Va;
Prouty, Ia Slemp, Va; Samuel W.
Smith, Mich, Steenerson, Mimi;
Stevens Mimi Sutherland, West
Va, and Volstead Minn.
Friends of Col. Roosevelt who voted
AGAINST repeal Bell, California;
Bryan and Falconer Washington; /;
! Hinebaugh. Illinois; Hulngs, Penn
sylvania Kelly, Pennsylvania; Muir
dock. Kansas; Temple, Pennsylvania.
These Progressives voted for re-
peal Lindbergh, Minnesota; Rupley,
Pennsylvania; Thomson, Illinois.
Chairman Adamson, Of the Com
mittee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, which reported the Repeal
bill, and Chairman Carter Glass Of
the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency led the fight in support OF the
administration.
In a bitter speech directed at the
Democrats who have fought the
President, Mr. Glass severely criti-
csed the House leaders for their fail
ure to rally to the support of the Ad-
ministratiun.
Representative Adamson closed the
debate with a denunciation of Sena-
tor O'Gorman and others who wrote
into the Baltimore platform the
plank attempting to relieve the coast
wise ships from the payment OF tolls
Mr. Underwood announced that ht
proposed to vote for the amendment
But" he said, "the original position
OF the House was more honest, more
manly, more courageous, The Senate
by this amendment conceded every
thing that was conceded by the Hous,
bill and then. to satisfy their con
science or their fears threw out thit
negative declaration as a sop to thos
who opposed the measure"
Representative Moss, Democrat
from West Virginia. offered the fol
) lowing amendment to the bill
"But it is hereby ;.ftirmatively de
clared that the United States has tn
right to exempt from payment o
! tolls for the passage through tn
canal its vessels OF every kind, AM
also those Of its citizens, and the alb
solute sovereignty Of the unitel
States over the canal is hereby speci
hcally affirmed
The amendment was beaten by
, vote Of ia TO los.