The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-04-27
LARGE MAJORITY IS
GIVEN RECIPROCITY
House Passes Bill in Practical
y the Same Form as in the
Last Session.


madam rec ,procity agreement. sup
ported by all but q handful of Demo
Gratis and opposed by majority OF
the Republicans. passed the House
OF Representatives by vote of 265
to 80.
With nearly 200 Democrats in con.
troll and their action Endorsed by
many Republicans. the bill was
adopted with no amendments, and In
almost identically the form in which
II passed the House last sess on.
The bill seeks to put into effect the
FORMAL agreement reached between
President Taft and members of the
Canadian cabinet for a reduction of
tarif rates on many articles and free
trade in many others across the Ca
madam border. Added to it by the
Democratic leaders Is q section which
authorizes and requests" the Presi-
dent to make further efforts to secure
still freer trade relations with Canada
in the form of additional reciprocal
relations.
AS when the bill passed at the pre-
oeding session, majority of the Re.
Dublicans were found against it. The
vote shows a clean split of the House
Republicans, with 81 supporting and
70 opposing while only 10 Democrats
voted against the bill.
Farmers Free List" Bill Next.
The next business in the House is
expected to be the farmers free list
bill. This has been brought in to Off
set some of the dissatisfaction farm
ers feel because of Canadian reci-
proctty putting on them, as they be-
lieve, most of the burdens CT the ex-
pected fresr trade relations with Can
ada.
When the Canadian bill reached the
Senate Monday it found an morgan
ICED body. The committee vacancies
have not been filled because a split
between the regular and insurgent
factions over the refusal of the ma
tority to accept the insurgents as a
distinct organization promises fur
Their delay in the announcement OF
committees.
insurgent Senators Turned Down.
Formal demands by insurgent Re
publican senators that they he recog-
nized as an organization distinct from
and that they be given onefourth OF
all the majority membership Of the
committees and control of these as
signments were rejected by vote Of
seven to four at a meeting of the Sen
ate committee on committees.
Representatives of the regular Re-
publican organization in the Senate
determined to check the insurgent de-
mands after it was learned that Pres
ident Taft resented the insurgent at
titude in opposing policies recon.
mended by him, and their action in
putting barriers in the way of his re-
nomination in 1912,
Water Rights Made Easier.
Senator Jones of Washington In
troduced a bill to amend the national
reclamation act in such way that
nonresident owners of land under
government irrigation projects may
obtain water rights without being re-
CURED to reside upon their land, ii
they will make oath that they will
maintain residence upon the land for
at least one year before they receive
patent.
National Capital erevItles.
Under the auspices of the Postal
Progress League. a two-days' confer
ence assembled in Washington Tues
day to discuss ways and means for
Bringing about an extension of the
parcels post in the United States.
President Taft accepted an invita-.
ton to deliver an address Tuesday
night at the opening Of the twenty
ninth annual Episcopal church con-
gress.
Representative Lafferty Of Oregon
has prepared and will introduce bill
permitting desert land entrymen own
ting land under government irrigation
projects and who have disposed Of all
but 100 acres, as now required by
law, to assign their remaining land
in whole or in part.
Remuneration Of any jurisdiction
over Alaskan railroads or the regula-
ton OF rates in that territory was
made by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The commission de-
clared that all regulation of Alaskan
rates lies In the hands OF the secre-