Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-14
RECIPROCITY REPORT
ROUNDLY CRITICISED
Committee Scored for Failing
to Make Recommendation
to the Senate.

an amendment" came in for round of
criticism because his committee had failed
to bring In a report either favoring or op-
posing the measure Senator Dixon of
Montana was the first senator to express
his surprise that the committee, after
weeks OF hearings. had failed to make
any recommendation to the Senate. and
his criticism elected q series of statements
from senators who were members of the
committee. 1t was announced that the
committee had refused to make a favor
able report by q vote Of s to g. and that
on a motion to make an adverse report
the vote had been to l. The commit
teemen insisted that they did not feel
justified in keeping the measure from the
Senate merely because 1t was deadlocked,
and therefore the bill had been ordered
reported without recommendation.
The question was raised whether the re-
porting Of the bill with an amendment
the Root observation-disclosures the COM
mattee was in favor OF the amendment.
No satisfactory answer was made to this
question.
Senator Cores Position.
to the bill which would place Canadian
flour, meal, meats and agricultural i'm
plements on the free list. but said he
Woulu uUt press lH0 dIn6IluUlcIlL IL IL UC-
came evident that it's adoption would i'm
peril the bill.
During the discussion Senator Penrose,
in reply to a question by Senator Bailey,
announced that the Senate finance COM
mittee would grant hearings on the farm
ers' free list bill and declared that the
measure would be given fair treatment
that this did not mean the bill would be
reported to the Senate. Senator Bailey
declared that ultimately he would move
to discharge the committee from further
consideration Of the bill should a report
not be made.
Three minority reports were submitted
| to the Senate along with the bill. one by
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin and an
other by Senator McCumber of North
Dakota, both of which declared that the
bill should have been reported adversely.
Oppose Root Amendment.
The third minority report was made by
Senator Williams of Mississippi and en-
bodied the views OF Senators Kern of In
diana and Stone of Missouri. as well as
those Of Senator Williams. In brief. the
Williams report declared that the bill
should have been favorably reported and
unamended by the Root amendment.
The three democratic senators take the
ground that a half loaf is better than
| IIOHc, tiidL tHey WISH TO see reciprocity
with Canada established, and are willing
to advance the interests of the admins
tration bill without reference to the fate
of the democratic free-list bill passed by
the House. After having enacted the
reciprocity bill into law they are willing
to take chance on getting a vote on the
free-hst measure.
Senator La Toilette, while advocating
the principle Of reciprocity in his re-
port. shows himself strongly opposed
IN nf ha 1n<o AP thn III
Death Blow to Farmers.
The position taken by Senator Nc
Cumber is that by lowering the tariff
wall between Canada and the United
States death blow will be given to
the farmers OF this country.
A monster petition. signed by 10000 cit
liens of Minnesota and the Dakotas, ask
ing that the reciprocity bill be not enact
ed into law. was laid before the Senate
by Senator Nelson of Minnesota. The
petition, huge bundle nearly as big as
one of the Senate pages and weighing
many pounds, was carried to the Vice
Presidents desk by couple of pages.
Figures on Imports.
Secretary Knox has supplied the Sem
ate finance committee with the latest fig
ures regarding imports into Canada from
the United States with the purpose Of
strengthening the argument In favor OF
adoption Of the reciprocity arrangement.
They set forth a much larger trade in the
commodities that would be affected by
reciprocity during the year ending March
81. 1911. than the figures upon which the
pending bill was based, which were those
for the preceding year.
For instance, 1t Is stated that on these
last returns the total remission of duties
by Canada on American products would
be So, 1874, 600, instead of So. SCI, 900 during
the preceding year.
list and particularly on agricultural prod
ucts. which IS a few thousand dollars
under 100000.
Increases in Trade Shown.
The greatest remission Of duties would
be on fruit, vegetables and live animals,
but an increased trade Is shown in cot
tonseed oil and seeds. Farm products
show a uniform increase. On the mu-
tually reduced list. including manufac-
tured articles, the total remission Of du-
ties would be more than $4,000 as COM
pared with $57S,OOO the previous year.
Agricultural implements form an i'm
portant item in this list, as we'll as motor
vehicles.
Canada's world trade also Increased
during the year from $685., 0S1 600 to $780,
hold the front rank with exports to
Canada of $685., 1875. 900. Canada's ex-
ports to the United States showed no in
crease, though her imports from the
United States were nearly 62 per cent Of
her total imports.