Evening journal., 1897-01-16
TRADE WITH CANADIANS
Overtures Are Made For Closer
Commercial Relations.
TWO ENJOYS FROM THE DOMINION.

liberal Members of Parliament In Wash
ington Mission Looking to the Ne
gotiaiion of Commercial Treaty with
the United states.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.-When the Lib.
erals came into power at the recent elec
tions In Canada, IL was a part of their de
clared purpose TO secure more intimate
trade relations with the United States To
accomplish this result treaty with Great |
Britain was first 20 be negotiated, and &C \
learn the sentiment Of members Of con.
gress in regard TO such an agreement is /
the purpose Of Messrs. Charlton and Far I
rer, two Liberal members of the Canadian |
parliament, who reached Washington yes
terday They modestly announce that |
they come in an unofficial capacity and /
simply to talk with public men and learn |
how far their cooperation may be secured |
in the negotiation Of commercial treaty |
between Canada and the United States
Mr. Farrer talked with Mr. Dingley OF
Maine, the chairman of the ways and
means committee, with reference to this |
matter, and during the day he saw several
other members of the committee He and |
Mr.. Charlton continued their missionary
work, but 80 far as can be learned the re
suits have not been satisfactory The oh
lection raised by congressman is that the |
natural products of both countries are the
same owing to similar climatic and soil
conditions. The members Of the ways and
means committee, for example will not
agree that even the present rate of duty ON
foreign farm products, to say nothing Of a
lower rate Of duty, will be permitted
There is an urgent demand from the farm.
ers along the entire northern border for
restoration Of the Mckinley rate Of duty
on hay, beeves, horses, breadstuffs and
farm products generally. So far as these
articles are concerned, no reciprocity is
possible.
The same is true OF lumber. Under the
present law the importations Of lumber
from Canada have been enormously in
creased, and so keenly have the American
lumbermen felt the competition of their
Canadian neighbors that they viii not
only demand the old rate of duty, bat q
considerable increase above that SO far
as manufactures are concerned, it is not
/ believed that the Canadians will accept
i any arrangement which win give to the
/ Americans practical control of their mar
I ket, as would be the case if reciprocity in
manufactures of iron, steel and other arti.
cles were permitted.
WIN Enlarge American Market
On the other hand, the two Canadians
j maintain that Canada win grant such con.
cessions as will greatly enlarge the Amcri.
can market. While Canada could not give
4 to the United States a lower rate of duty
4 than is given to the British manufactures,
/ it so happens, Mr. Farrer says, that
/ large number Of articles can be found
which might be put on the free list and
/ from which the Canadians would purchase
4 largely Of the Americans, inasmuch as
1 Great Britain cannot compete with this
country in producing them. He includes
| in this list sewing machines, firearms, pig
| and bar iron, axles and springs, locomo-
tiyes and stationary engines, paper, print
/ ing machines and presses, gray cotton and
cotton jeans, clocks and watches, brass
goods, carriages and sleighs, drugs and
chemicals glass, boots and shoes, harness
and saddlery, refined petroleum, paints,
oils, rubber goods, furniture, electrical ap-
/ paratus, etc.
Canada, according to Mr. Farrer, is
ready to put the North Atlantic fishery
question on more satisfactory footing
and 10 come to a better understanding in
regard to wrecking on the great lakes, the
alien labor law and other matters in dis
putc The Canadian government is also
I
deepening the ST. Lawrence route from
Duluth and Chicago to tidewater and for
making the lake traffic free to Canadian
and American vessels alike, offering in re-
turn to give joint control over the canals
to the United States. Public men to whom
these lattering concessions have been out
lined fully appreciate the advantages which
would result, but they cannot sec how
they can offer 20 Canada any advantages
in return that would not offset and prob
ably more than offset the concessions pro-
posed.
Some Of the senator's think that Canada
would insist, as part Of the arrangements
on a continuance Of the bonding privilege
which is now enjoyed by the Grand Trunk
and Canadian Pacific railways and which
many Americans feel works an injustice
to American railways, notwithstanding
that the people along the northern border
in New England and the northwest derive
great benefit from the use of the Canadian
roads
Altogether, the situation, IL representa-
tives and senators who were seen may be
believed is fun Of uncertainty, with the
chances strongly against any convention
such as the Liberal party in Canada would
like to frame Ii is pointed out that the
old treaty Of lS4S was largely favorable 70
Canada, and that it was abrogated on chat
account. The conditions today it is
thought are not relatively different from
those which existed at that time, and the
unsatisfactory working Of that treaty Is
cited by those who do not give their objec-
tions in detail as their reason for opposing
a similar arrangement now.
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