The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-18
PLAN TO KILL RECIPROCITY
ORGANIZED MOVEMENT ~ THE
SENATE TO DEFEAT IT.
standpat and lnsuFgent Republicans and
Tarin fer Revenue Democrats Are
working Together In an EnoPt 70
Amend the Bill by Adding Free List.

0tenopat ana uneufgent UepuDl1cano enu
TariR fer Revenue Democrats Are
working Together In an Effort ts
Amend the Bill BY Adding Free List
WARRINGTON May i7.-Evidence ac-
cumulates showing an organized move
ment in the Senate to delay the Canadian
reciprocity bill and finally TO kill it by
the indirect method OF amending II in a
way that must prove fatal by adding q
free list bill.
Unusual forces have rallied 10 the
support Of the plan. Standpat Republics
Senators. who usually insist that the
tariff duties cannot be laid too high tc
suit them. tariff for revenue Democrats
who have been reading their "free raw
material" brethren out Of the party or
the ground that such doctrine il rank
heresy and insurgent Republicans who
insist they were the original advocates oi
Canadian reciprocity with a condition
namely that IL should be accompanied
by a general revision downward on many
articles and q FREQ list--all those arr
working together to amend the bill.
Opposing the proposed free list amend.
ment are Democrats who stand for q
general lowering Of duties and an en-.
largement Of the free list. but who insist
that Canadian reciprocity is step in
the right direction and that II ought to be
accepted a. such. TO be followed by the
other tariff reforms in their order. And
for this attitude these Democrats are
being chided by their tarif for revenue
brethren a. being inconsistent.
Senator Bailey. tariff for revenue
Democrat member Of the Finance Com.
mittee, and his colleague and sympathizer
Senator Simmons Of North Carolina. are
working hand In glove with their insur-
gent colleague. Senator la Toilette. and
their standpat Republican colleagues
Senators Smoot. Gallinger. Hepburn and
Clark. in opposition to Canadian reciproc-
ity and in favor Of a free list.
Predictions are freely made about the
Senate that the Canadian reciprocity
bill will be amended by adding a free
list or An amendment providing general
lowering Of duties and that it will fail.
III We can only amend the bill. which
We hope to do. Ne can defeat it. said q
stAndpat Republican member Of the
Finance Committee
The opponents Of the Canadian agree =
ment admit that on the merits Of the
question standing a. . single proposition
Canadian reciprocity will command from
ten to fifteen majority in the Senate
With ot jectionable free list amendments
an excuse might be offered to many Sena-
tors TO justify their action in voting
against II.
The four Democratic members Of the
Senate Finance Committee - Senators
Stone. Williams. Kern aud johnson have
been approached with . suggestion that
they should support free list amendment
to the Canadian bill When they de-
INJURED and suggessed that the amend
ment would be Intellectual. for il could
not prevail and would simply operate
TO defeat the main proposition, these
Democrats were chided Tor being in
consistent"
II l believed that there was the re-
list bill and enact it into law I would
support it unhesitatingly." said one of
the Tow tariff Democratic members Of the
Finance Committee. But the very SEN
ators who are proposing il at this time are
opposed to 1t on principle"
President Taft 10 believed 10 be fully
acquainted with the gopher burrowinR
that 10 going on In the Senate to under
mine the Canadian bill. He summoned
Senator John W. Kern OF Indiana to the
White House to-day and had a frank
talk with him. Mr. Kern 10 in favor Of
the House free list bill and for q generaI
lowering OF tariff duties. and he 10 also
in favor OF Canadian reciprocity. but he
objects To permitting one measure to
be used by the enemies Of both to kill
on the other
The special sesd IN called to consider