Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — CUBAN BILL ADOPTED. [ARTICLE]

CUBAN BILL ADOPTED.

House Puts Through the Measure by • Vote of 338 to 21. The Cuban reciprocity bill, which gives force and effect to the treaty, making a reduction of 20 per cent from the Dingley tariff schedules on Cuban products entering the United States, was passed by the House of Representatives at 4:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon by a standing vote of 335 to 21. The announcement of the result, which had never been in donbt, was the signal for a roar of applause from the floor and galleries. The dissenting votes were about equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, but there was no roll call, because tho minority had too few votes to order the yeas and nays. Among the dissenters were Messrs. Darragh, Smith, Loud, Fordney, Bishop and McMorran, of Michigan; Gillett, Metcalf, Needham, McLachlan, Daniels of California and Hogg of Colorado, Republicans; and Shaforth of Colorado, Bell, Llvernash and Wynn of California aud Davey, Meyer, Broussard, Robertson and Breazeale of Louisiana.