Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-15
RECIPROCITY BILL
IS PRESENTED
Democrats introduce Measure to Car.
ry Out Canadian Treaty and
Expect Quick Action.

down to actual business, when Repre-
sentative Underwood, OF Alabama,
chairman of the committee on ways
bill to put into effect President Taft's
reciprocity pact with Canada.
Mr.. Underwood also introduced a
, bill to put on the free list 100 articles
which are dutiable under the Payne
Aldrich tariff law. Both will receive
early consideration.
The reciprocity bill introduced by
Mr.. Underwood is practically the same
as that introduced in the last session
by Mr.. Mccall. Republican, and re-
introduced by him at the opening of
this session. A clause was added in
the caucus authorizing the president
to continue negotiations with Canada
for reciprocity in articles not covered
by the present agreement.
Free List For Farmers.
The free list bill is designed to
placate farmers for agricultural losses
which they will sustain under the re-
ciprocity agreement, but it contains
also some foodstuffs and boots and
shoes.
The list is as follows: Plows, har-
rows, headers, harvesters, reapers,
agricultural drills and planters, now
ers, horse rakes, cultivators, thresh-
ing machines, cotton gins, farm wag-
ons, farm carts and all other agricul-
tural implements. including repair
parts.
Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and
fabrics suitable for baling cotton;
burlap and bags for sacking agricul-
tural products; hoop or band iron or
steel for baling cotton, wire for baling
ducts; grain leather, buff, split, rough
and sole leather. band or betting
leather, boots and shoes, harness, sad
dies and saddlery and leather for
manufactured articles.
Barbed fence wire, wire rods, wire
strands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wire fencing.
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork and
meats of all kinds, fresh, sailed, pick
led, dried, smoked, dressed or I'M
dressed, prepared or preserved in any
manner beef, hams, shoulders, lard,
lard compounds and lard substitutes;
sausage, buckwheat -four, corn meal,
wheat and rye -four, bran, middlings
and other offals of grain; oatmeal and
rolled oats and all prepared cereal
foods; biscuits, bread, waters and sim
ilar articles not sweetened.
Timber, hewn, sided or squared;
round timber used for spars or IN
building wharves; shingles, laths,
fencing posts, sawed boards, planks,
deals and other lumber, rough or
dressed, except ebony, mahogany, rose
wood and all other cabinet woods.
Sewing machines and salt complete
the free list.
May Strike Snag In Senate.
, Uncertainty exists as to what course
will be pursued in the senate with
reference to the reciprocity bill when
it reaches there, possibly next week.
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
who will become the new chairman of
the committee on finance, is said to
be friendly to the bill and will urge
favorable action. The friends Of the
bill also make a decided gain In the
absence of Senator Hale from the
committee. He not only opposed the
measure in committee, but INSTRUCTED
it In the senate at the last session.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, who moves
up to the place of senior minority
member of the committee, is opposed
to the bill, and will make an effort to
have it amended Senator Cummins,
of Iowa, who probably will have one
OF the places TO be assigned to the in
surgents on the committee. also will
seek to have the measure amended,
but from a friendly point OF view.
With the bill once before the SEN
ate a fairly long contest is expected.