The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-15
MEMBERS FROM
ILLINOIS SPLIT
ON FREE TOLLS

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Illinois members OF the house an
split ON The question Of free toFli
TOR American vessels PASSING
through fhe Panama canal was In
dictated this week by down stat
cnngressmen who discussed ths
Bcrah bin which passed the sen
ste Iast Monday and is now pend
sdng In the house
Both Senators Mccormick and
Mckinley voted against the Borah
free tolls bill in the senate. SEN
Afor Mckinley was In Illinois to
attend the American Legion con-
vention at Decatur and planned q
Conference with political aides at
Springfield, but returned hurried
~ to Washington at the request OF
Senator Curtis, Republican whip"
who wired for all administration
Senators in a vain effort to defeat
the bill.
M Senator Mccormick spoke briefly
against the Borah bill, opposing it
on the ground that a declaration for
free tolls at this time will imperil
the success of the approaching
arms conference.
Down-state Illinois will have two
members on the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce
which will report the bill IN the
lower chamber Representatives
William. J. Graham, Aledo, and Ed
ward e. Dentson. Marion, met with
the, committee this week and will
take part in the consideration of
the measure President Harding is
said to oppose any action on the
tolls question before the arms con-
. ference. is under way and it is be-
Iieyed he" viii attempt TO settle the
matter by diplomatic negotiations
before. the house acts. Administra-
ton leaders, therefore, can be ex-
pected to keep the Borah bill un-
der consideration by the commit
tee of which the two Illinois con-
gressmen are members. preventing
its immediate consideration by the
house.
Among the Illinois members who
have announced that they will sup
port the B0Fah free tolls bill in the
house are Representatives William
GA. Rodenberg. Illinois; Thomas 8.
Williams, Louisville; Clifford Ire
-1d1t4s L1y 4AA ScAAA4Co H. AnhAuJ
Of Chicago.
Representative Charles z. Full
Ter, BeIvfdere, has not definitely
announced his position but is IN
derstood to be favorable to free
tolls. Representative Graham and
Denison of the committee in charge
of the bill have refused to commit
themselves but are inclined to op-
pose the Borah bill.
The last vote on the question of
free tolls was taken IN the house
March 81, 1914, when President
Wilson put through the repeal of
the original tolls exemption act over
the opposition OF Speaker Champ
Clark, Majority Leader Underwood
and other Democratic leaders. The
Illinois members at that time vot-
ed 20 to against free tolls, Repre-
sentative Hoxworth Of the Fifteenth
district, Withholding his vote. Rep
resentatives Britten, Copley,' Gal
fagher, Mckenzie, Madden and
SABBATH, all voted against free tolls
and for repeal of the tolls act. Rep
resentatiye Mann was the only
member still in the house who Vot-
ed for free tolls. There were at
that time only half a dozen Re-
pubhcans from Illinois IN the
house
During the debate in the senate
This week. Senator Willis of Ohio,
who supported the Borah bill child
ed Senator Mccormick because as
a member OF the platform commit
tee at the Chicago G. o. p. conven-
ton last year the latter concur !
red in asplank for tree tolls.
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engages IN discussion that leads Gs |
20 believe that ne. thinks the pas
sage of-fhe pending bill would be
unwlse- believe we are bound by
the Republican platform which was
part-of the senator's handiwork."
Senator Willis stated.
Senator Mccormick replied that 1
IN his opinion we have a right to
what this bill proposes. but that
N Is unE1se TODD, it on the eve of
the conference on the limitation
On aEmaneuts."
Representa- Loren. f. Wheeler
Springfield, favored the SiegeI ap-
pordonment bill as the Illinois
member of the committee on the
census which reported the measure
10 the house this week, recommend (
ING an increase In the membership
OF the house from 435 to $50.
Illinois win gain one congress-
man If the apportiunmeut bill fixes
the'membership AZTEC On final pas 4
sage >Bitter oppositiGRsha arisen
m the senate to the proposal that
the membership should remain at !
ass. because Missouri, Iowa. Kan
sas, Maine and other states would {
lose at least one congressman each. I
senators from the states affected ]
VIII attempt to have the member
ship fixed at $50 so that their states
VIII lose none of'their present rep C
reSentation- r
Opposition to the SiegeI bill was a
confined to the Democratic mem \
Ders or the census, committee who a
declared that it would cost over
sSoO.o00 annuaEysin increased sal
aries clerk hiresaad officesspace.
III the membership is finally set n
1t $50. Illinois will have three con-
yresSm In the .Y,ouss nm b