The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-18
FORDNEY BILL PASSES
AFTER AMENDMENTS.
SENATE BY VOTE OF FORTY
THREE TO THIRTY.
Sends Socalled Emergency Measure
to Conference With Many Dis
agreements to Be Adjusted.


more than score Of amendments.
the Fcrdney emergency tariff bill
tonight passed the senate. The vote
was AZ to 80 and the measure was
Immediately sent to conference.
Action on the bill, designed and
ilushcd through tie house as an aid
to the farmer, came after protract-
ed debate during which four Repub-
lican senators broke away from Their
party alignment and two of them,
Edge of New Jersey and Moses of
New Hampshire, bitterly assailed the
measure and it's Republican support
ers. Likewise, solidarity Of the Dem
ocratic ranks could nos be maintain
ed, nire of the minor:r.,' members
be:,:g recorded in favor y the bill.
The roll call :'o]lows:
Republicans for: Ball, Bcrah,
Brandcgee, Capper, C1r5is, Elk:rs,
Fall, France, Freliaghuysen, Good
ing, Gronna, Hale, Johnson. Califor-
MIA; Jones, Washington; Kellogg,
Kenyon, La Toilette, Isenroo:, Lodge,
Nc Cormick, McCamoer, Mclean, Nc
Nary, New, Penrose, Rhipps, Poin-
dexter, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling,
Sutherland, Townsend, Wadsworth
and Willis. Total Republicans for,
"a.
Democrats for: .Ashurst, Gay, Hen
derson, Jones. New Mexico; Ken
drick, Myers, Pittmaa, Raasdell and
Sheppard. Total Democrats fer, 8.
Total for, 45.
Democrats aga2sssS. 3,eI.A:.;;;s1l,,
Dial, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Harris,
Harrison, Heain, Hitchcock, King,
Kirby, McKc,iar, osarnla2, Pcne-
rere, Simmons, Smith, Geor&:a
Smith, South Caro!iaa; Stanley,
Swanson, Thomas, Trammel, Cn''er-
wood, Walsh, Massachusetts; Walsh,
Montana; Williams anal Wolco.t, To-
tai Democrats against, 25.
Republicans agaiast: Cot, Edge,
Kevs and Moses. Total Republicans
against, 4.
Total against, 60.
The broadside by Mr.. Noses 1cm-
porariy unsettled the Republican
program, so much so that three
amendments offered by Senator
Lodge, the majority leader, were kill
ed. From the time the vote was call
ed on the Lodge amendments, all Of
which had to do with protection for
manufactured products Of wool, the
senate rode roughshod over all
changes profered. But it already
had accepted so many changes from
the form in which the measure came
from the house that the most ardent
supporters predicted trouble in get
ting an agreement with the house.
Senate Names Conferees.
The following senators were ap-
pointed as the conference committee
to attempt to iron out the differences
with the house: Penrose, McCumber
and Smoot, Republicans, and Sim
mons and Williams, Democrats. It
is expected the committee will be
able to start work with a similar
committee from the house late to-
morrow.
While the senate was in the throes
of the heated debate on the emer-
gency tariff, the house ways and
means committee was concluding
open hearings on revision of the
permanent law. With that work out
of the way, Chairman Fordney will
leave late tomorrow for conference
with President-elect Harding at St.
Augustine. 1t is understood he will
ask the next chief executive for a
definite expression as to his views on
the legislative program outlined by
Republican leaders and whether he
favored immediate consideration by
congress of tariff legislation rather
than action on matters of taxation.
The speech by Senator Moses
against the emergency bill was filled
with a series Of caustic shots at his
Republican colleagues. He declared
that every senator knew that the
bill, if it should become law, would
avail nothing and he challenged de-
NAL by any senator that it was "un-
scientific and designed to fool the
farmer rather than aid him. =