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Show RECIPROCITY FOES HUE CJUMPPIl Opponents of Measure Allow It to Progress, but Protest When They Realize Situation. f PRESIDENT TAFT IN STORM Terrific Gale Following" Day of Intense Heat Descends Upon the National Capital. WASHINGTON. June 27. The tension in the senate over tho reciprocity measure meas-ure was emphasized by incidents that occurred oc-curred in the confused proceedings of today. to-day. The session began with an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attempt by Chairman Penrose of tho finance committee to secure an agreement for a voto on reciprocity July 21, on the wool bill July 2b'. and on the free list bill July 2S. Friends of reciprocity will Insist upon coupling all three measures In any agreement agree-ment to vote. After refusing to permit such an arrangement, ar-rangement, the opponents of the reciprocity reci-procity bill allowed that measure to advance ad-vance one Important parliamentary step before they realized what had happened. For a quarter of an hour tho senate was in executive session. At Its conclusion, no one being ready to speak on the nieus-ure nieus-ure and following tho parliamentary custom cus-tom of that body. Vice President Sherman Sher-man announced that the bill would be reported from tho committee of the whole to the senate. Foes of Bill Asleep. The bill actually passed through all the slages of being reported to the senate before members realized what was going on. While under consideration In committee com-mittee of the wliolo the measure could be amended, but could not bo voled upon. In the senate It could be' brought to a final voto at any tlmo. Senators Nelson, Nel-son, Brlstow. Clapp and Bailey Joined In the protest that arose when It was found what had happened to the bill. At first Mr. Penrose objected to having tho mcusurc reinstated In committee of the whole. He said the senate had shown no disposition to hurry consideration of the bill and had rejected his proposal for a definite time for a voto on the measure. He therefore thought np backward back-ward step should bo taken. Friends of the bill on tho Democratic side, however. led by Senators Stone and Bacon, said the senate had evidently been off Its guard and had permitted the bill to be advanced unintentionally. Senator Penrose finally consented to having it restored re-stored to its former status. Penrose Precipitates Storm. The feeling that developed over this Incident In-cident was not so marked, however, as that, which greeted Senator Penrose's attempt at-tempt to fix a time for the' vote on the bill. "Insurgents objected to any definite date for the reciprocity voto and the finance committee, was extricated from the embarrassing position of having the other votes determined by an objection from Senator Smoot. Several Democrats and insurgents would have welcomed the fixing of tho other two dates so that I he tariff bills could bo forced up to President Taft ahead of, tho reciprocity bill, and the latter held back as a moans of forcing his signature to the others. Tho Penrose request, will bo renowed from llmo to time whenever conditions seem favorable. Ultimately, tho friends of reciprooty may consent to change the order, allowing the vote on the tariff bills to come first, but they will not do so at present, nor ih, taking this position posi-tion will they consent for ' one to go through without the others. In this attitude they huve the indorsement indorse-ment of tho president, who has advised them In individual conferences that while he does not shrink from consideration of tariff measures at this time he thinks that reciprocity should come first in tho natural order. Senator Borah attuckod tho reciprocity bill In a speech this morning, dccfarlng that the Canadian treaty of 1S5-1 had not been of benefit to the country, and that the Canadians were always seeking an agreement tli.it would admit their natural products to the United States, while It protected their manufacturing interests. Terrific Storm. The senate was compelled to adjourn becuusc of the storm that raged about the capital late In the afternoon. A deluge of rain and hall, accompanied accompa-nied by thunder anil lightning and a wind that attained a velocity of sixty miles an hour today forced an adjournment adjourn-ment of tho senate, caught President Taft In the open on tho Chevy Chase golf links, caused the destruction of a building at tho Soldiers home, and played liavoc with shade trees. The storm lasted only twenty minutes, and was the climax of a day of Intense heat, the thermometer thermome-ter on the street level registering 102 degrees. While tho storm was nt Its height lightning struck one of the big dairy stables sta-bles al the Soldiers home, and within a few minutes the structure, with Its contents, con-tents, was In ruins The loss Is ?!0.000. President Tnft had with him on tho 1 1 ' Chovy Chaso golf links General Clarence Edwards and Major A. V. Butt, when the storm broke. The three wcru drenched. T?.d by the president they fled to the caddy house, where they remained until the downpour ceased, and then resumed re-sumed their game over a soggy course. At the capltol the beating of the hall and rain on the glass roof of the senate chamber caused such a din that Senntor Borah, who was speaking, could not make himself heard and the senate was obliged to adjourn |