The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-19
UP TO The SENATE
The State Department Will Do Moth
ing More on Reciprocity Until
That Body Moves.
Too Many Treaties Now Pending
Where Mr.. Hay Would Have
Been Useful.

From The Journal Bureau, Room IS, Post Build
ing, Washington. - ~E.., H.
Washington, Dec. 19-It will be inter
esting note how much influence, if any
the recent Canadian reciprocity conven-
ton in Detroit is to have in Washing
ton. The state department is already
committed to the policy of doing nothing
more until the senate has done something:
with the treaties now pending. Any new
treaties would, be cut off the, same. bolt
with the old ones, and the state depart
ment doesn't care to waste it's time. If
the senate will show a disposition to "a tify
reciprocity trea ties, the department UNI
doubtedly would be willing to reopen ne
gotations with Canada. ... .' ~
At the capitol the feeling is that it is
the state department that should act, and
not congress. Leading members of both
houses think, at least they say. that ths
state department. should take the initia-
tive, and that if there is to be reciprocity
with Canada. treaty should be drafted
and submitted for ratification =
a Deadlock. 80 -.~.
Friends CT Canadian reciprocity in Min
nesota, in letters to- the Washing ton
bureaus Of II h EDO URN l., say that they
think the best method OF reaching better
trade relations with Canada is through
concurrent action. and it is pointed out
that attempts have been in this direction
in the past, notably in the fifty-first on
the fifty-second congress, when Mr. Hit,
! who had recently been made the chairman
of the house committee on foreign affairs
introduced a resolution which aimed at
securing such concurrent legislation A
view very generally entertained in Mime
sofa is that congress should appoint a
commission to meet one of a similar
| nature appointed by Canada, the two to
| prepare a treaty. At present there seems
| to be no sentiment In congress in favor
| of that idea, although agitation may
| create it. - -
| s Where Hay Would Have Been Useful.
Probably Eugene G. Hay Of MINNEAPOLIS
| was the first nlan--in the entire northwest
| to bring this question of Canadian reci-
procity into campaign discussion, and had
he been elected to succeed MI Fletcher
| it is reasonable to believe that congress
| might have been induced to do something,
for Mr.. Hay is widely and favorably
! known to many OF the most Influential
| men of both houses, and his acknowledged
ability would have given him fine oppor-
tunity to- press the. question home with
emphasis. In this connection it is being
noted with some degree of interest here
that Mr.. Lind. in his campaign for cleo
| ton. practically followed Mr.. Hays lead
| In his campaign speeches, using, Of course,
his own phrascology. and that he made
more friends, among the business interests
of the fifth district by those arguments
and speeches than by anything else he
said or did. The Minneapolis district
;, sometimes makes mistakes in politics, and
Lone of its recent ones, in the Judgment
| Of people here, was the refusal to give
| Mr.. Hay the republican nominal tion- for
congress. At a time when Canadian reci-
procity is becoming a very live issue in
| the northwest. that section has delibera te
~ decifned to Congress the one
man, WHO saboesa All StfgTs is best fitted
| by reason--of Information acquaintance
and native ability, to make the fight in
Washington for those larger 'opportunities
in Canada which Minneapolis wants. Mr.
| Lind although copying Mr.. Hays points
and being himself a man of ability can
hardly expect to accomplish anything as
! long as the republicans are in control OF
| the government. -