Tariff Bill Passes Senate
The tariff bill, for which in great part this special session of Congress has been held so long, passed the Senate at 5:43 o'clock September 9, amid a burst of applause that swept down from galleries to the Senate floor. Senator La Follette cast his vote with the Democrats, as did Senator Poindexter. President Wilson is greatly gratified over the end of the long struggle. It is hoped that the passage of the bill will be a decided help to business. It represents an average reduction of more than four per cent from the rates of the original bill that passed the House, and nearly twenty-eight per cent from the rates of existing laws. It remains now that there shall be a conference held with the House, and the signature of the president affixed, and the long tariff struggle is over for a time. Forty-four voted for it, and thirty-seven against it. Paired and not voting, twelve; absent and not paired, two.