Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1913 — TARIFF MEASURE PASSED SENATE [ARTICLE]

TARIFF MEASURE PASSED SENATE

Upper House Adopts New Democratic B|ll by 44 to 37 Votes— L&Follette Voted "Aye.” Washington, Sept. 9.—'The democratic tariff revision bill passed the senate at 5:43 o’clock this afternoon amid a burst of applause that swept down from crowded galleries and found its echo on the crowded floor of the senate. Its passage was attended with surprises in the final moments of the voting, when Senator LaFollette, republican, cast his vote with the democrats, and was joined a few moments later by Senator Poindexter, progressive. The democrats had counted throughout the long tariff fight on losing the votes of Senators Ransdell and Thornton, of Louisiana, democrats, who voted against the bill today because it would put sugar on the free list. Until the names of Senators LaFollette and Poindexter were actually called, however, no one knew definitely the stand they would take and their votes were greeted with enthusiastic applause. President Wilson tonight expressed great gratification over the end of the long struggle in the senate. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, who ha 4„ piloted the bill through the finance committee, the democratic caucus and the senate, predicted that its passage would bring immediate stimulus to the business of the country. As it passed the senate, the tariff bill represents an average reduction of more than four per cent from the rates of the original bill that passed the house, and nearly twenty-eight per cent from the rates of existing law. In many important particulars the senate has changed the bill that passed the house; and a conference committee of the two houses will begin work Wednesday or Thursday to adjust these differences. Leaders of both houses predicted that the conference will consume less than two weeks’ time. The senate endavored today to hasten the bill on its way to the white house by naming its members of the conference committee as soon as the bill passed. Vice President Marshall appointed Senators Simmons, Stone, Williams and Johnson, democrats, as the senate conferees. Senator Stone withdrew from the committee and Senator Shively was appointed in his place. The house conferees, it was reported tonight, will he Representatives Underwood, Kitchin and Rainey, democrats, and Payne ana Fordney, republicans. Each house will have an equal vote in the conferees committee even though each does not name the same numbr of conferees.