Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-02
Defeat In House Of Bill Sanc- toned By President Marks First Republican Victory In Year
 VOTE ULTIMATELY"
 TOLERATE ISLANDS Clarke Measure Providing In- dependence In 1920, Is Downed 2I3 To 1G5. Dem- ocrats Aid Downfall
(By Review Leased Wire-)


 ministration's fight for the Senate Philippine bill with it's Clarke amend ment authorizing independence for the islands within four years. was lost in the House tonight.
 After voting 213 to 165 to strike out the Clarke Amendment, the House by a vote of 251 to F passed as substi- tute for the entire measure the Jones hill. providing for a greater measure O self government in the House and carving a prea~ble declaring the in tention of the United States to grant independence ultimately but without fixing a date.
 Over the heated protest of Admin istration leaders. the house bt vote of 203 to 1754. instructed its confer ees not 10 agree to any declaration setting definite time for granting theislands their independence. Speak ar Clark named Representative Jones of Virginia and Garrett of Tennessee, Democrats. and Towner of Iowa, Re publican. as conferees.
 Now the bill goes ot conference be- tween the two houses. with the Clark amendment, and is settled at least for this session of Congress. The House ren aimed in session until late tonight to take final vote. Thirty democrats joined the rennblican minority in de- feating the Clark amendment, which bad been give nunnualified endorse ment by President Wilson. It was ths first marked victory of the year over any part of the Presidents legislative program. and the Republicans weri noisily jubilant over it. After each victorious vote they applaudad for several minutes and by way of mock in gthe democrats emitted repeatedly the famous Rebel yell' of the ma ioritv Derocrats accepted their de- fcet in silence.
 The Democrats who voted against the Clarke amendment were:
 Allen Ohio: Beakes, Mich; Bruck- nor. Carey. Conway Dale. Dooling, Driscoll. Farley, Fitzgerald. Flynn. Griffin. Hubert. Maher, Patten. Rior den and Smith. New York: Cody. Md: Pagan Hamill and Hart. New Jersey: Estopinal. Louisiana; Gallagher, Me Andrews and McDpr7' ott. Illinois: Gal Twin. Olney. Phelan and Tague. Nassachusetts, and O'Shaughnessy, Of Rhode Island
 The first vote taken after eight hours> in committee-of-the-wh showed 15l to 131 votes against the Senate provsiion Chairman Jones of the Tnsular Affairs committee. then at tempted tn p-orure the adoption of substitute. fixing the time limit. They were quickly voted down. The first. to grant freedom in not less than two or not more than six years. was defeated 1S6 to 146 and the second making the minimum time four years and the maximum eight was lost 191 10 161. Then came the substitute of the Jones Bill. The entire House In sular committee had agreed to it be- fore the bill had passed and substan- tially the same measure was provid cd by the House at the last session of Congress. Without further debate on other sectionts of the Senate, MT. Jones offered his amendment as a substitute or the remainder of the Senate bill and it was adopted imme- diately
 Manuel Quezon the resident com missioner of the Philippines in Con- gress. said he was so greatly disap- pointed over the failure of the Senate bill in the House that he would not return 10 Congress.
 "This ends my work in Congress" he said. "I am not coming back. What is tn euse? The action of the House tonight makes the fight for in dependence harder. I notice that not a single Republican voted for the Clark amendment. They had it all figured out in adavnce."
 MT. Ouezon had advocated the bill earnestly.