The Washington herald., 1911-02-12
VICTORY FOR BILL
IS SHOWN BY POLL
Majority in Senate and House
Favor Reciprocity. \
COMMITTEE o. KS MEASURE
Ways and Means Members, by Vote
of IL to z, Sanction Mccall Law.
Amendment Puts Wood and Wood
Pulp on the Free List-House VIII
Act To-morrow-How They Voted.

A complete poll of the Senate. taken
by a New York daily yesterday after
noon, showed sixty-five members pledged
| to reciprocity.
The House is already safe for the
agreement. as is also the Canadian Par
Lament. Complete victory for the meas
ure therefore seemed assured.
The Mccall bill to carry into effect
the Canadian reciprocity agreement,
which was favorably reported by the
Ways and Means Committee yesterday,
will be considered by the House of Rep
| resentatives tomorrow. Representative
Mccall of Massachusetts,, the author OF
the measure, announced yesterday after
noon before adjournment that he would
call up the reciprocity measure on Mon
day and move that the House take it
Up Immediately.
District Day to Be Sidetracked.
Representative Gaines, of West Vir-
ginia, one of the seven members of the
Ways and Means Committee. who op-
posed favorable action on the Mccall
blu. demanded that the minority be given
a few days in which to file its report.
The Massachusetts member made it quite
port on the bill, written by him, had
been filed, any attempt by opponents of
the measure to delay consideration on
the plea that the report was not ready
would not be given much attention.
Representative Olcott, of New York. a
member of the House District Commit
tee. mildly called attention to the fact
that Monday. according to the calendar
Of bo
tives, is District day. This did not make
any apparent impression on Mr.. Mccall
either, nor is it considered that the
House will delay action on the recl-
procity measure on this account.
Consider Bill Tomorrow.
So it is believed that the Mccall bill,
regardless of whether the report of the
minority is ready or not will be consid-
cred tomorrow. Mr.. Mccall will prob
ably merely make a motion that the bill
be taken up and not demand its presen-
privilege.
The favorable report of the majority
Of the Ways and Means Committee on
the reciprocity measure was filed yester-
day afternoon. 1t is rather lengthy and
is considered by those who have read it
a particularly able argument in support
of the reciprocity agreement
The vote of the House Committee on
Ways and Means yesterday to report IA
Vorably the Mccall resolution for reci-
procity with Canada was II to Z
Repr resentatives Payne of New York,
Mccall of Massachusetts. Hill of Con-
necticut, Boutell of Illinois, Needham of
California, Longworth of Ohio, Republi
cans, and Clark of Missouri, Underwood
of Alabama, Pou of North Carolina, Ran
dell of Texas, Hanson of New York and
Brantley of Georgia, Democrats, voted
for the bill.
Representatives DaIzeH of Pennsyl-
vania, Calderhead of Kansas. Gaines of
West Virginia, Dwight of New York. Ell
lis of Oregon, and Fordney of Michigan.
Republicans, and Broussard Of Louisiana,
Democrat. voted against the measure.
One important amendment was adopted.
This, known as the Mann amendment,
puts wood and wood pulp up to cents
/ pound, from unrestricted land, on the
free list.
This is the Interpretation Of the agree
ment contender for by John Norris, Of
the Newspaper Publishers Association, at
the many hearings before the committee.
Clears Situation
SEVERAL HeHlDSIS OF the ways and
Means Committee explained after the
hearing that the Mann amendment was
not really an amendment at all, in the
sense that it made a real change in the
reciprocity agreement.
1T simply clears up the situation"
said Representative Boutel, of Illinois, a
member Of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, by interpreting the agreement more
fully"
The Mann amendment will make GER
tain that Immediately upon the passage
Of the Mccall bill paper and wood pulp
may be imported into the United States
free of duty from those provinces of
Canada which do not impose an export
duty.
In letter to Senator Beveridge, of In
diana, congratulating him on his speech
in the Senate in support of Canadian
reciprocity, Andrew Carnegie predicts
that the Republican party in Congress is
taking a chance of being popularly and
permanently repudiated if it rejects free
trade with Canada