Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-10
PLAN MAY De OPPOSED.
Reciprocity Treaties to Encounter
Sharp Antagonism in Senate.

Washington y. c.. Dispatch: Presi-
dent Roosevelt realizes that the admin
istration will meet with OPPOSITION in
the senate when the reciprocity treat
les are To be considered.
President Mckinley knew of this OPP
position in the'senate but he had care
fully mapped ont his course. and he in
tended To make serious effort to
bring the senate to terms His Buffalo
speech was an appeal to the people to
arouse public interest in this question
before congress assembled President
/ Mckinley had secured the extension OF
| all the reciprocity treaties negotiated
under his administration ana. con
trary TO the belief of some senators.
those treaties are all alive and before
the senate for ratification, The oppo-
nents OF reciprocity hoped To defeat
the treaties by causing delay In the
senate until the time limit on them
expired President Mckinley frus-
trated the plan by securing extension
of all the treaties, SO that they will
be alive and before the senate through
the next session OF congress or until
September. 1902. unless sooner ratified
or rejected President Roosevelt will
take up the work where his prede.
cessur left IT, He viii press these treat
les upon the senate. No new treaties
can be negotiated until these are dis.
posed Of.
There are eleven such treaties They
are with France. Argentine, Nicaragua
Dominican republic. Ecuador, Den
mark for the island OF St Croix, aud
Great Britain for the British West In.
dies. including Barbados. British Gut
ana. Turks and Caisas islands, Ber-
muda and Trinidad. Most Of these
treaties have been before the senate
two years or more without action by
that body. President Mckinley, by ex-
tending the time for the ratification
served notice on the senate that the
reciprocity treaties could not be killed
by neglect. They must be ratified or
defeated. President Roosevelt will
follow the plan OF President Mckinley.
He Mi: not withdraw these treaties,
but keep them before the senate until
they are dsposd OF either by favor
able or adverse vote.
There will be strong opposition in
the East to the French treaty and
strong opposition in the West TO the
Argentine treaty. The Eastern manu-
facturers OF knit goods and cheap jew
elry claim they have been sacrificed
in the French treaty, and the wool
growers OF the West claim that they
have been sacrificed In the Argentine
treaty BY combining the two inter
ests they can defeat both treaties But
the Western people all want the French
treaty and the Eastern people want the
argentine treaty. The senators from
each section realize that they would
have to explain then votes against the
Treaty demanded by their people. They
have therefore followed the plan OF
hanging up all the reciprocity treaties
in the senate committee on foreign re
lations until the time limit on them
expired President McK iuley, having
by agreement with the other interested
powers. extended the time in which
they may be ratified and President
Roosevelt having taken up the work, IL
VIII he necessary for the senators to
show their position on each treaty
some time during the next session Of
congress.