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Show CUBAN TREATY RECEIVED VOTE OF LOWER HOUSE j W' ASHINGTON. Nov. 19. The house j today, by a rising vote of 335 to j i 21, passed the bill to make effee- I 'tive the Cuban reciprocity- treaty. The dissenting votes were about equally divided di-vided between Republicans and Democrats, Demo-crats, but there was no ic-cord vote, the minority having too few votes to order the yeas and nays. The Democrats, under the leadership of Mr. Williams, sought to the last to secure amendments to the bill in accordance ac-cordance with the action of the Demo- 'cratic caucus, but were defeated steadily. stead-ily. Mr. Williams made the final effort when he tried to have the bill reeom- mitted to the ways and means commit-i commit-i tee with instructions' t amend, but M-oint of rfr.P'r und?r the special rul". providing for a vote on the bill uithiuu j intervening motion, was sustained. I Mr. Cannon received the applau.' I the Democratic side when he cntei -i tained the appeal from his ruling niad - by Mr. Williams, the speaker saying li.-; li.-; preferred to err if he erred at all i. giving the house the right to express jits will. The appj.il was tabled by : stri. t party vote, j The debate began Monday and w.i. I continued f w ithin a few minutes j 4 o'clock the time appointed to Ink-' I a vote on the final passage of the ti:i. ! Mr. Williams .-lo.-ed the debate for hi i i side and make an arraignment of t'i I Republican policy of protection. Mr. McCall (Rep., Mass.) made the cl.in : speech on the Republican side. The announcement an-nouncement of tho passage of the hi:i caused only a slight cb. monstrat ion. Mr. McCL-llan. inavor-clect of New York, occupied the speaker's chair f a v.hil- today as chairman of uie committee com-mittee of the whole. . I |