Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-30
Nine Democrats Vote with g Republicans Against
 the Measure.
MAY BE THE LAST
 OF KIND ENACTED
Senator Kenyon, Who Filfbustered Against $43,OOO,OOO Appropriation, Predicts More Systematic Plan
 Will Be Evolved for Future.

Washington, May 29.-After a per- sistent fight, lasting for three weeks, the senate today passed the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, car rying approximately $43,000,000, by a vote of 35 to 32. Nine Democratic and 23 Republican senators voted against the bill. They were, Demo- crats, Ashurst, Gore, Hollis, Hus- Taggart and Thompson; Republicans, Borah, Brady, Clark of Wyoming, Cummins, Curtiss, Dillingham;, Fall, Gallinger, Hardnig, Jones, Kenyon, LaFollette, Lippitt, Lodge, Norris, Page, Smoot, Sutherland, Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren, Weeks and Works. Senators Tillman of South Carolina and Thomas of Colorado, sought to vote against it, but could not transfer their pairs, and thus were prevented from voting.
 Seven Republicans voted for the bill-Brandegee, Mclean, Nelson, Oliver. Poindexter, Smith of Michigan and Sterling. The bill will now go to conference of the two houses.
 Before the final vote was taken to- day, Senator Kenyon, who led the fight against the measure, predicted it would be the last of it's kind to pass an American congress.
 You are dumping thousands of dol lars into streams where commerce is rapidly disappearing, and into streams with less than foot of wa ter in them, and into streams that you could not recognize as such when you crossed them. to be such. You have had opportunity to correct some of these abuses but would not. Your motto is Let the people squeal.' l want to say have done my best, and ! if the price of holding my seat in the senate is voting for bills of this kind, . the seat may go, for my usefulness is ended"
 Shortly before the bill was placed 5upon it's final passage, the Newlands smendment, providing for the crea- #tion of river commission, was stricken from the bill on renewed point of order.
 Washington, May 29.-A motion to send the $43,000,OOO rivers and har- bors bill back to committee with in- structions to substitute bill provid- Ing a lump sum of $2O,000,000, was Rejected by the senate today, Al to 27.
 The senate then adopted as an mendmcnt Senator Newlands' pro- posal for the creation of river com mission consisting of the secretaries f war, interior and commerce and hairmen of two senate and two kouse committees to insure co-opera- lon with the army engineers and ther government bureaus in investi- a'ting waterway improvements. The mendment would appropriate $5OO,- DO for the commissions expenses.
 Chairman Clarke of the commerce Commission said he saw no objection
 it, as it might furnish basis in he conference for working out ew method of dealing with river and
 lrbor appropriations that would put
 end to an ever-recurrent criticism
 the present system.
 An amendment by Senator Kenyon
 provide for a non-partisan water
 eys commission of five went out on
 point of order.
 Senator Kenyon's motion to substi-
 fe for the bill resolution author
 ng an appropriation of $25,000 for
 ts, the distribution to be left to
 army engineers and the secretary
 war was defeated, 34 to 23. Demo-
 It's who voted for the substitute
 fe Ashurst, Gore, Husting, Lane,
 nerene, Shaffroth, Taggart, Thom-
 Thompson and Tillman.