The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-21
THE FRENCH TREATY
RESOLUTION URGING ITS RE.
 LECTION BY SENATE
Sessions of the Reciprocity Conven- tion Yssterday-Greetings Sent
 to the Pan-American Con |. gress in Mexico City


 Washington, Nov. ,2o.-At the forenoon session of the National Reciprocity con vention today A. B. Valentine or Ben ninaton. Vt, president of the National Association of Knit Goods Manulactur- CTS. offered the following resolution as representing the views of the Association'
 aResoIved, That. in the opinion of this convention. the treaty known as tne French reciprocity treaty should not DO ratified"
 resolution. asserting that he wished to state something for the information or the convention The delegates broke into laughter as President Search replied that he was confident MT. Valentine diu not understand that his action wac Sicic- ton of the rules. resolutions not being in order. It was referred to com mittee, protested strongly against the attitude or | the ultra protectionists. He said that the | existing evils might not be entirely eine- | liberated by either tarin revision or reel nrocal trade conventions with other na- tions. but each remedy might work to the advantage of American industrial opera tions if each were confined to It's proper | channels. .. A | clared that reciprocity never did and never will help this country and the l interests demanded it. especially the | French reciprocity convention. have nc right nor need to demand 1t Of us. | Competition, MT. Sheard said. was the | means of resolving any reciprocity treaty l into its proper class. He said the | French reciprocity convention operated | actually to reduce the duties on Knit | goods to 10 per cent below the outies | imposed by the Wilson bill
 | A great deal of foreign trade was done on a profit of 5 per cent.
 What was the occasion TOT the | changer" asked MT. Sheard.
 1 Has any one in the convention heard l any explanation offered?'
 l owen Osborne of Philadelphia. drew a hopeless picture of the American Knit | goods industry in the absence Of tarin l protection. .,-
 | William c. Barker of New York, repre- senting the National Association Of I'm plement manufacturers. advocated recip' rocity. He said that unless reciprocity were applied as a safety valve a tarin explosion would follow that would ere ate general ruin. He criticized some oi the assertions and figures or Cnarle: Heber Clarke, who Immediately rephec in detail to the criticisms.
 Figures may lie some timcs," he said but liars also can figure"
 The session adjourned at noon, when the officers of the convention and com mittee of ten proceeded to the White House and cplled on President Roosevelt The session of the reciprocity sonven- } ton tonight was devoted mainly to the . question of reciprocal trade relations witF Canada. Several pers were read after which some routine business was disposed of and the convention finally adjourned. The views of the Boston Chamber oi Commerce on the subject of reciprocity with Canada were presented in a papel by George II. Coppings. There was, h. said. from the conclusion that Canadt ] should be concluded in any genera scheme for reciprocity treaties, no logi cal escape Our interests were more near ly touched by the future of that country than by the future of the South Ameri can States.
 Hon. John C. Harlton a member oi the Canadian Parliament, spoke earnestly for some reasonable concessions in trade relations to meet the liberal treatment accorded the United States by Canada Canada, he said. could not permit exist ing conditions to keep up.
 William Irwin of Chippewa Falls, Wis. largely identified with the lumber inter ests believed that the lumbermen of tn: United States would voluntarily agree tc the sale concessions considered by the Canadian High Commissioners, proVide1 those who are engaged in the manufac- ture of things consumed by the lumber men in the manufacture of lumber would agree to a similar reduction of the duty on their products.
 William C. Braker of New York offered the following, which was unanimously ordered sent:
 Hon. W. I. Buchanan, Pan American Congress. Mexico City:-The Nationa Reciprocity Congress in Washington sends cordial greetings to the Pan. American Congress and expresses the hope that the work of the congress vii lead to more intimate commercial rela. tions between all of the American re. publics. Theodore Search,
 Chairman"