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Show THE WILSON BILL Passes the House With the Wildest Enthusiasm. THE GALLERIES PACKED Such a Soene of Enthusiasm Wm Never Before Witnessed in Legislative Hail Wilson Was Carried Hitfh in His Colleagues Col-leagues Arms. Washington, Feb, 1. At 6 o'clock tonigut, tue Wilson tariff bill passed the house. The vote waa 204 to 140, For hours before the debate began, the corridors leading to the gallerie e I were a surging mass of humanity, which finally became bo great that men cried out in terror and women fainted in fright. It is estimated that over 20,000 attempted to jjain admittance admit-tance to the galleries of the house today, to-day, tbe seating capacity beinir about 3,000, and every available seat was occupied. oc-cupied. So great did the crush become that members secured permission to bring their wives upon the floor. Speaker Crisp ordered the doorway be cleared and no more people be al lowed within the building. It was ! next to impossible to execute this or der, and when Reed, the first speaker, ! arose at the last to deliver the final plea for protection, the overhanging galleries were black and dense with I spectators. .Every inch of space upon the lloor was taken. Only ten of the 354 members of the house were absent, ; end many senators and other dietin- j guished personages were on the fl jor, and in the galleries were Mrs. Cleve- I land, MrB. vice -President Stevenson I' and other ladies of eminence and dis tinction. For three hours, were heard ' the champions of the two economic ' eyBtems iteed. Crisp and Wilson- while their partisans made the air vocal vo-cal with shouts of approval. The ap- ! pearance of the speaker of the house upon the floor, engaged in debate, was in itself a remarkable as well as an unusual un-usual thins. Each of the speakers 3 seemed to I e in his best form, and the ! speeches today will rank among the most brilliant of their lives. WThen theBe were finished, Wilson, who spoke last, was lifted on the shoulders of his ' admirine colleagues and carried trium phantly from the hall amid a scene of enthusiasm. . . " When the time For Voting onlne bill and pending amendments the disorder was so great the sergeant-at-arms was called on to clear the aisles and wives ; of members who had been allowed upon the floor. It took twenty minutes min-utes to restore order so the public business busi-ness could proceed. The speaker then announced the two pending amendments that of the committee com-mittee on ways and meanB to increase the duty on barley from 20 to 25 per i cent., and on barley malt 25 to 35 per cent., and the amendment of Tawney ; (republican), of Minnesota, to increase the duty 22 cents per bushel on barley ' and 32 cents on barley malt. The first vote was taken on the Tawney amendment, amend-ment, which was lost 120 to 197. The , committee amendment waa then agreed j to 202 to 134. Johnson, of Ohio, demanded a separate separ-ate vote on the wool and woolen amendment; English upon the income tax and upon the petroleum amendment. amend-ment. The other amendments including includ-ing bounty on sugar, anl that placing refined sugar on the free list were ' agreed to in bulk without division. The first amendment which Johnson ! desired a separate vote on was that placing wool on the free list immedi ately on the passage of the bill. This j amendment having been vitiated by a later amendment placing the date at August 2, the point of order was I raised that the latter amendment must first be voted upon but after some dis-cuBsion dis-cuBsion the chair decided the Johnson amendment must first be voted upon to perfect the text, and that the real test would come upon the amendment ' ; to strike out the words 'immediately after the passage of the bill," and insert in-sert '"on and after August 2." The Johnson amendment was, there- j fore, agreed to without division. The f other amendment was agreed to. The amendment fixing the date as December 2, whan the manufactured woolen schedule shall go into effect was also adopted. A vote was then taken upon the amendment providing for reciprocity in petroleum and it was li carrried. Tbe last amendment was that providing for income tax. ! Then it was found the income tax could not be voted on as a separate proposition, the speaker deciding, in accordance with a precedent which he ! cited, that the internal revenue amend- i ment having been reported as a single I amendment it would not be devided. i Te vote, therefore, was upon the en- jj tira rejection of the internal revenue t amendment. ! The republicans, with few excep tions, refused to vote, but the amendment, amend-ment, including the income tax, was adopted. The populists voted in the affirmative. On the final vote on the bill itself, j Beltzhoover was the first to win ap ; plause by an aye vote, indicating that thj Peunsylvanians were falling into s line. Immediately after this, Blanch-ard. Blanch-ard. of Louisiana, who had opposed the bill, also voted aye. Cochran's vote in favor of the bill brought out tumultuous cheering. The climax of demonstration was reached when the name of Wilson, the author of the bill, was called, the democrats dem-ocrats cheering vociferously in final recognition of his leadership. The speaker asked that his name be called and he answered in the affirmative. affirma-tive. Then the speaker announced. "On this question, the ayes are 204 and nays 140, and the bill is passed.". |