Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — SENATE VOTE ON TARIFF IS 45-34 [ARTICLE]

SENATE VOTE ON TARIFF IS 45-34

Insurgents Stand With the Democratic Members. PROTESTS TO VERY END Beveridge and Gore Make Speeches, the Indianan Declaring That the Pledge of Downward Revision Made tb the People Before Election Had Not Been Kept and the Blind StatesOklahoma Denouncing the Protective System. Washington, July 9.—The tariff bill passed the senate by a vote of 45 to 34. Here is the vote in detail: Yeas —Aldrich, Borah, Bourne, Bradley, Brandegee, Briggs, Bulkeley, Burnham. Burrows, Burton, Carter, Clark, (Wyo.), Crane, Depew, Dick, Dixon, Dupont, Elkins, Flint, Frye, Gallinger, Gamble, Guggenheim, Hale, Heyburn, Johnson, (N. D.), Kean, Lorimer, Jones, McCumber, McEnery, Nixon, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Perkins, Piles. Scott, Smith, (Mich.), Smoot, Stephenson, Sutherland, Warner, Warren, Wetmore—4,s. Nays Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead, Beveridge, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Chamberlain, Clapp, Crawford, Culberson, Cummins, Daniel, Dolliver, Fletcher, Foster, Frazier, Gore, Hughes, Jofin6pn, (Ala.), La Follete, McLaurin, Martin, Money, Nelson, Newlands, Overman, Owen, Shively, Simmons, Smith, (S. C.), Stone, Taliaferro, Taylor—34. Beveridge's Final Speech. The failure of the senate to keep the promise made to the people by the Republican party respecting a revision of the tariff downward was the theme of Senator Beveridge as the debate on the pending bill was drawing to a close. “Our votes," he said, “shall be cast In harmony with our party's pledges as voiced by our party’s leader and the nation’s president.” Suggesting that the “insurgents” would cast their votes on the final passage of the bill In conformity with their previous action, Beveridge said they would do so, as a notice to the conferees to bring back a bill in which there should be decreases of duties. Beveridge was answered by Senator Aldrich who said he had often seen men interpret their own judgment as the judgment of their party. Gore Denounces “Protection.” Senator Gore delivered a final denunciation of the entire system of protection as exemplified in the bill. He compared Aldrich to the shepherd of a hungry flock, saying that his lambs had all been tamed until they would eat out of the hand. Some had even taken to strong drink, taking as “theirn” crude and refined petroleum. Suggesting that the president should promptly veto the tariff bill in fairness to his campaign pledges, Gore added: “Then it may not be so far stretching a prophecy to say that the next president of the United States may be an ‘African. 1 ’’ Tobacco Restrictions Removed. The removal of the restrictions on the- free sale of tobacco in the hand as provided in the amendment of Senator Bradley, which was adopted, is the result of many years of agitation. It is a live question in the tobacco growing states and has been the subject of many representations to congress. The prohibition of the present law, preventing freedom in the trade in tobacco in the primitive state, is paid to have been responsible for the forays of “night riders” in Kentucky and Tennessee. The present law permits the tobacco grower to dispose of his product, but does not allow hiH vendee to transfer it without paying a tax of 6 cents a pound. Other Tobacco Provisions Retained. The Bradley amendment authorizes any one, the grower, any person to whom he may make transfer, or anyone else, to sell tobacco in the Land without paying a tax, but requires that when the sale exceeds ten pounds, a record shall be kept for the benefit of the internal revenue service. The other provisions of the tobacco schedule were retained. These imposo a tax of 8 cents a pound on chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff; of $3 on cigars weighing more than throe pounds per thousand; with Increases for high grade cigars running up to $9 per thousand; of 75 cents on cigars weighing three pounds or less; $3.60 on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, and $1.25 on cigarettes or not more than three pounds per thousand.