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Interests of Special Localities Promise t,
Prevail in Congress-More About De-
pository Banks.
Special Dispatch to Chicago Record from
STAFF Correspondent.
Washington, d. c., Jan. l7.-Itlook
as If all the reciprocity treaties nego
tiated by Mr.. Kasson under the Ding
ley bill would be hung up by congress!
as an Illustration of human seltishness
and the inconsistency of the republi
can party. The platform of the ST
Louis convention and other previous
conventions in fervent terms demand.
ed the application of the principle OF
reciprocity to our foreign commerce.
The presidents inaugural address and
message to congress advocated it. The
speeches Of the spellbinders through
out the last campaign described the
beauty and advantages of reciprocity
in trade, and promised great results
If the republican party was allowed to
negotiate treaties. The late Mr.. Din
gley and his colleagues OF the commit
tee OF ways and means made great
demonstration to deceive the public
and inserted what they called a reci-
procity clause in the last tariff law,
which was framed so that it should be
imperative, but Mr.. Kasson skillfully
managed to make something out of it
and concluded arrangements with
France and the British colonies in
America, while Mr.. Buchanan made
an excellent treaty with the Argentine
Republic, Which gave sugar, wool,
tobacco, fruit and some things from
those countries an advantage of 20
per cent less than the ordinary duties
imposed upon such merchandise.
Although the entire trade of all the
nations mentioned is but a drop in the
bucket when compared with the total
imports of the articles mentioned,
every interest that is affected remon-
strates and demands that the treaties
be rejected. The woolmen of Ohio are
perfectly willing that we shall have
reciprocity on fruit and tobacco but
they object to reciprocity on wool.
The tobacco growers of Connecticut,
like Artemus Ward, are willing to
sacrifice all their first wife's relations
for the benefit of their country, but
their patriotism goes no farther. The
fruit growers of California are strong
ly in favor of reciprocity on wool and
tobacco, but object to having any in
the treaty about fruit. The sugar
beet growers are afraid that s'infant
industry" will suffer by a reduction of
20 per cent in the duty imposed upon
sugar imported from the British col
OnieS.
The democrats are not doing this.
The opposition comes chiefly from the
republicans, who are the most enthus-
iastic in favor of reciprocity, provided
the duties on the articles produced in
their states are not reduced. Never
theleSs, the next republican platform
will again commend the reciprocity
policy, and the republican spellbinders
will reburnish and repeat their argu-
ments to show its advantages, while
the republican congress will continue
to prevent its application, like the
member of the Iowa legislature who
favored the passage of a prohibition
law, but objected to its enforcement.
A similar exhibition of inconsistent
cy is furnished by the lumberman OF
Michigan, who insist that a heavy
duty shall be charged upon Canadian
lumber, but object to a duty on
Canadian logs, because they happen
to own sawmills on this side of the
border. tits all right for the United
States to tax Canadian lumber, but ii
is all wrong for Canada to tax logs
when it interferes With their business,
and delegation of them is here tc
ask our government to take advantage
OF the ADVERTISEMENTS of the British
and demand that the embargo or
Canadian logs be removed. After 8
conference between the secretary Of
state, the secretary Of the treasury
and the attorney general, and {
thorough examination of the laws o.
both countries affecting the subject
the committee of lumberman has beer
informed that the situation does MOI
justify diplomatic Intervention ant
can be corrected only by congressional
legislation. In other words, if the
congress Of the United States will re
duce the duties upon Canadian
lumber there is reason to believe thai
the Ontario legislature will recipro
cate by removing the embargo on logs
The objections to the admission OF
Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian
islands as terri tories rest on similar
grounds. The beet-Sugar men object
to the admission of their sugar, the