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Show SENATE PASSES RAOiEASUBE WATSON -PARKER BILL AS PASS ED IN HOUSE WINS AGAINST ALL ATTACKS Provides New Method of Settling Al Wage Disputes Through Special Boards; Party Lines Are Broken; Four Absent Wiishinvlon. The Watson-Parker railroad labor bill whs passed Tuesday by the somite in the identical form in which the house approved It. The oieusure now goes to the president. The vote wan ll'J to 13 and came after af-ter ineffectual attempts to amend the measure to give the inteastate commerce com-merce commission final authority over wage awards and to eliminate the rate-making section of the transportation transporta-tion act of 1920. Thirty-nine Republicans, twenly-r.ine twenly-r.ine Democrats and the one farmer-labor farmer-labor senator voted for the bill, while nine Republicans and four Democrats opposed it. The roll call follows: For the bill: Republicans Borah, Butler, Cameron, Coussens, Cummins, Dale, Deneen, Edge, Ernst, Fess, Fra-zicr, Fra-zicr, Oillett, Gooding, Harreld, Howell, Johnson, Jones of Washington, La FoJ lette, Lcnroot, McMaster, McNary, Means, Mctcalf, Norris, Nye, Oddie, Pine, Rccd of Pennsylvania, Robinson of Indiana, Sackett, Schall, Shorlridge, Smoot, Stanfield, Wadsworth, Warren, Watson, Wellcr and Willis 39. Democrats Ashurst, Blease, Brat-ton, Brat-ton, Broussard, Bruce, Copeland, Dill, Edwards, George, Gerry, Glass, Harris, Ileflin, Jones of New Mexico, Ken-drick, Ken-drick, McKeller, Mayfield, Neeley, Overman, Pittman, Sheppard, Simmons, Sim-mons, Stack, Stephens, Swanson, Trammcll, Tyson, Walsh and Wheeler 29. Farmer-labor Shipstead 1. Total 69. Against the bill: Republicans Bingham, Curtis, Hale, Keyes, McLean, Mc-Lean, Moses, Norbeck, Phipps and Williams 9. Democrats Bayard, Ransflell, Robinson Rob-inson of Arkansas and Underwood 13. Pairs were announced as follows: Fletcher, Democrat for, with Fernald, Republican, against; Pepper, Republican, Republi-can, for, with Ferris, Democrat, against; Harrison, Democrat, for with Goff, Republican, against; Smith Democrat,, Dem-ocrat,, for, with King, Democrat Kgninst: Dupont, Republican, for with Reed, Missouri, Democrat, against. The bill styled by its authors as "a treaty of peace"- between the railroad rail-road managers and workers, sets up a federal board of mediation of five members to be appointed by the president pres-ident which would function only after voluntary boards of adjustment for first negotiations had failed. |