| Show I I I UA DAYLIGHT LA lAW BA BACK K TO WILSO ILSON Senate Tacks Repeal on Bill After Representatives of ol Farmers t Appeal to to B Be Saved Wet Vet Hour Dail Daily y WASHINGTON WASHINGTON AtI Aug 1 J. By Bj Universal Service The The dayI day day- I saving light bill was owns repealed by the Senate today in passing a bill which has lias been passed by the House The Them m measure gc goes s to the President and nd it itis its is s generally y b d h hat Jt j. be l h vetoed as ns was tile the agricultural l appropriation ap appropriation ap- ap bill which carried a Similar similar similar sim sim- ilar repeal measure Tho The vote In the Senate on the question question clues ques ques- tion of ot repeal repeat was 41 H to 1 12 as follows For repeal Senators Bankhead Chamberlain Dial Fletcher Ga Gay Harris Har Har- ris Harrison Johnson o of South Da kota kot Jones of or New Sew Mexico King b by McKellar Nugent Overman Pom- Pom erene crene Sheppard Simmons Smith of ot Arizona Smith of ot Georgia Smith of South Carolina Swanson and Tram- Tram mell Democrats rats 22 ce Brandes-ce Capper Capper Cap Cap- per Cummings Curtiss Fall Gronna Kenyon Kenon LaFollette Lenroot Moses Nelson New Norris Fherman Sherman Sher- Sher man Spencer Wadsworth Warren arren and Watson Republicans 19 Total 41 Against repeal Gerr Gerry Phelan Pittman Pitt- Pitt man Thomas and Walsh of Massachusetts etts Democrats 5 Calder Colt I Elkins Lodge Lods-e McNary Ic ar Phipps and Sutherland Republicans 7 Total 1 12 I Debate Wan a Brief I The debate on the bill was brief Senator Cummins leading the fight for tor I II I repeal and Senator Calder of New York making making- the principal speech in favor of tho of retention the present law Senator Calder said he was confident that the President ent will veto the tho measure measure meas mens- I ure and that the tho Senate was fas as wasting time In considering It It He nc declared that a majority of ot the people especially especially especially espe espe- those In tho the Industrial centers want the law Jaw to remain Senator Calder called c attention to the fact act that when the question was before beCore the House on the veto of or the President it had hall been impossible to obtain a two-thirds two vote to override the veto voto and anI that on the passage of ot tho the repeal measure the majority for forI forthe the tho bill was W less than Senator Senator- Pittman made mado a a. point of ot order orI order or or- der against the tho bill upon tho the ground It was tho the same sarno l legislation which had hild already been vetoed by tho the President at this session Ho He was overruled by hy bythe bytho hythe the tho vice president who stated tha that while the tho general subject was the same the tho section In tho the a agricultural bill was waD provided for rep repeal al and was not the tho same as the repeal bill before the Senate Senator Gronna of oC North Dakota urged e tho the passage of ot the tho bill to relieve the farmers from wasting an nn hour In Inthe inthe the tho early morning when dew on the grain made It impossible for or them to go to work worle He lie said every farmers farmer's organization org In the tho country has petitioned petitioned peti peti- to Congress to repeal the la law Underwood ShUe Senator Underwood of oC Alabama said he had supported the original Ilu daylight li ht saving saYin law as a n. war measure because he believed ed It would be of somo some ad advantage advantage advantage ad- ad vantage to war Industries The war having passed however he said he ho b believed be- be I bt It it best but to go O back to the old method of at recording time and allow It to be fixed by the tho sun rather than by byan byan byan an act of or Congress Cong Senator Lodge c rose to say that he would vote against the tho r repeal because It been valuable it In In Indu Industrial industrial In- In ho he felt tell had een er very du communities Ho lie raised a n lau laugh h b by referring to Senator Underwood's Underwood's Underwood's Under Under- woods wood's argument In favor avor o of fixing time by tho sun by b saying that tho senator apparently had forgotten that thata a new day has dawned The old mm Hun sun occupies very cry much the amo position as the principles of at George Geor e Washington Senator Lodge Idge I said and anel we ma may expect some Borne one to tell ten us that a new wa way of or determining the tho time of ot day has been devised There are those who believe e the principles principles principles prin prin- of ot George Washington should be set aside and In tho samo same ta fashion it might bo be said ald that the sun Is Js' out of i da date c |
