Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-14
M'CUMBER MAKES
Stand AGAINST
RECIPROCITY
Claims Passage ofBin Would
p Now Defeat its Own
Purpose
Claims Prices Of Grain VIII
be Reduced in United
States
(By Associated Press)

(1y Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 14.-With
prospect of daily sessions beginning
at noon and continuing as long as the
various senators who wish to be heard
have anything to say, the Senate to-
day began a long discussion of tse
Canadian reciprocity BILL
Senator McCumber took the floor
Immediately after the Senate assem-
bled and vigorously opposed the meas
ure. Not more than a dozen Repub-
licans were in their seats while only
half as many Democrats were present
Most of the senators who have in
dicated their intention of speaking are
opposed to the pact. Comparatively
few speeches are expected from SEN
ators favoring the measure. They say
they do not want to delay the vote by
talking.
During the progress o. McCumbers
speech he engaged in spirited col
oquy with Senator MARITIME of New
Jersey. McCumber was attempting to
show that the American farmer had
failed to procure his share of pros.
perity Of the last few years.
Marines questions were intended
to develop the fact that the failure
was due to productive policy, but Nc
Cumber contended that the American
market for agriculture products had
been improved by conditions in other
industries due to the tariff.
Your specious, arguments and dis
honest policies have failed to put
bread into the mouths of the people"
MARITIME fairly shouted. "You gave
us a dose of your theories In 1897"
responded the North Dakotan, and
by lingo we don't want any more
of it." "a
WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator
McCumber opposed the reciprocity
agreement in the Senate today on the
ground that it would injure American
farmers.
Defeats Own Purpose.
Il believe this t,e&ty," said Mr..
McCumber, ''if enacted into law, would
not only postpone for many years a
consummat1on of hopes indulged by
farmers of the county. l must there
fore either repudiate all have advo-
Gated for years or oppose the consum'
nation OF this agreement.
Prices Would 9e Reduced.
After reviewing testimony intro
duced in the hearings of the finance
committee relative to canadian and
American prices, McOumber said:
Having established beyond any pos
sible controversy that our prices are
higher than Canadian prices at the
present time, and that this recfproc-
ity agreement, il enacted into law,
will level these prices in the immedi-
ate future to the words level, the
qeustion arises, will 1t be possible Tor
us at any time in the future again to
occupy the position we have for the
last several years, that of having a
home market worth from 10 to 10
cents a bushel on flax and 20 to 30
cents bushel on barley more than
it would be If we were dependent upon
foreign market"
Farmer viii Suffer.
II say again that the farmer who
for years has looked forward to that
period when the consumption and
the production of wheat, barley and
flax should equal each other in this
country, will be doomed to remain
for a century to come, absolutely de-
pendent upon and subscrvlent to the
worlds level of prices for his products.
and that, with the enormous possibil-
ity of grain productions in the Cana |
dian northwest, those prices will be -,
1over comnaratiye1v than he has re- |
ceived for a number OF years !