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Show SENATE APPROVES THE Tiff BILL MEASURE NOW GOES TO A CON. FERENCE COMMITTEE BSCAU8E OF CHANCES MADE. ( La Folletta, Republican, and Poind , tar, Progressive,' ' Vote With tha Majority, Whlla Two Democrat '' Vota Agalnat Meaaura. Washington. The Democratic tartff revision LIU passed the senate at 6:43 o'clock Tuesday afternoon amid a burst of applause that swept down from crowded galleries and found Ita .echo on be crowded floor of the annate. Ita passage was attended with surprises in the final momenta of the voilng. when Senator La Kollette, lit publican, cast bla vote with the Democrats, aud waa joined a few moments later by Senator Poindexter, Progressive. The Democrats had count d through out, the long tariff fight uion losing the votta of Senators Hausdell and Thornton of Louisiana, Democrats, ho voted against the bill Tuesday because It would put sugar on the (me list. Until the names of Senators Ia Kollette and I'olndexter actually were ca k-d, howevtr, no one knew definitely definite-ly the stand ,tbey would take, and their votes were greeted with enthusiastic en-thusiastic applause. President Wilson expressed great gratification over the end of the long struggle In the senate. Senator Simmons, Sim-mons, chairman of the finance committee, com-mittee, wbo had piloted the bill through the finance committee, the Democratic caucus and senate, predicted pre-dicted that Ita passage would bring Immediate stimulus to the buxluess of the country. Aa It passed the senate, the tariff bill represents an average reduction of more than 4 per cent from the rates of the original bill that passed the bouse and nearly 28 per cent from tb rates of existing law. In many important im-portant particulars the senate baa changed the bill that passed the bouse, and a conference committee of the two houses will begin work at once to adjust these differences. Leaden of both houses predict that the conference con-ference mill consume less than twe weeks' time. |
