The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-22
TARIFF MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE
 ON A PARTY VOTE
Vote Is 2s9 to 127, With Seven Democrats Support ing and Seven Repub-
 Iicans Opposing Bill
Rr AssocIated Press

Washington, July 21.-The repub- lican protective tariff bill. estimated by Chairman Fordney to raise around $500, 100000 in revenue an- nually, was passed tonight by the House by a vote of 2S9 to 127-pre- cisely the vote by which a dem ocratic motion for elimination of it's American valuation provision was defeated Seven republicans voted against the measure while the same number of democrats supported 1t.
 oil, hides, cotton and asphalt stood up against determined fight to tax them and remained on the free list The Longworth dye embargo, first or the five contested schedules to go before the House proper for sep arate vote, and backed by most or the republican members of the ways and means committee, was thrown cut, POS to 19S.
 Forming and holding 1iyihs wedge. and aided by republicans not satisfied with all the bills proVi- sions, the democratic minority fhaoe the most Of it's chances ana won oh each The ways and means comm, tee lost out on three or the llSe amendments laid before the House:
 Tbere was not much chance of Inn nosing A duty on hides and cotton after the House in committee or the whole. had defeated amenomenls carrying compensatory rates on their manufactured products when ehe oil amendment was reached there was such a shout of noes that roii call was not demanded. momene I.+ar Chairman Fordney, trying 10 wake himself heard above the uim which prevailed during three hours of voting, announced that sehSlinelis in the committee of tne "hoio against taxing asphalt had been so overwhelming that 1t wasn "oi U. w.i,e to go through the form or calling the roll.
 over 200 Amendn ents
 N,ora than 200 amendments, rushed through during the last lew days were nut up to be voted on in ploc. Some merely corrected spelling in the hill some shuffled commas ana some changed the rates but the uemocraes' still holding their forces in line, com pelled a record vote.
 lust before the time came to pass the bill, Representative Sai nei' VI 1exas. ranking democratic on the ways and means committee stepped to the front with the expected motion to send the bill back to it's framers with instructions to strike out the American valuation and reciprocal provisions. This was where the re- nubJicans and democrats diyided souarely on the whole tariff issue, although they had split widely on some of the earlier votes.
 It probably was the first time since wartime days that the House found itself with such a quorum on the eve of a vote. Closing the long wrangle over the bill, Chairman Fordney brought republican members to their feet by declaring 1t would bring greater prosperity to the country than it now enjoyed.
 The republicans voting against the bill were:
 Beck, Wisconsin, Calm. Ohio, Knight. Ohio, Lambert, Wisconsin, I ,hn NJ. Nelson. Wisconsin, Sinclair. North Dakota, voigh. Wisconsin.
 Democrats voting for it were
 Campbell, Pennsylvania, Dupre, Martin, Favorot and Lazaro. Louisi- ana, Lea and Banker, California.
 Representative Longon, New York voted against it.