Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-31
RECIPROCITY WILL BE
HURRIED THROUGH BY TAFT
Will Call Extra Session If Pre-
sent Congress Does Not
Take Action


WASHINGTON. Jan. 2s.-To carry into
effect the terms of the reciprocity agree
ment concluded by representatives of
Canada and the United States last
Thursday, and which was placed before
congress that day by President Taft with
special message urging legislation on
the subject. the first move was made to-
day when Representative Mccall. of
MASSACHUSETTS,. member. of the ways
and means committee of the house. pre-
scented the administration bill on the sub
Ject The bill was referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means, which will
take 1t up next week.
MCALL TO DIRECT
The Introduction of the bill by the
Massachusetts member, instead of Mr.
Payne. of New York. chairman of the
ways and means committee, occasioned
some comment. 1t is interpreted in many
quarters to indicate that Mr.. Mccall will
take a prominent part in steering the
bin through the committee and In en-
cheering its progress upon the floor of
the house.
While members of the committee which
has the first consideration OF the new
trade agreement decline to discuss their
prospective attitude upon the measure,
II has DCCOAnC wen C6tdDAShCO
that the bill to put the new rates into
effect will pass through the committee
and come upon the floor of the house
within a comparatively short time.
The first move of the committee will
be to take up the bill at the meeting
early in the week and determine II any
hearings will be held upon the measure.
II is the opinion of several members of
the committee now that IL certain dele
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affected by the lowering OF tariff rates
wish to be heard by the committee, an
opportunity will be afforded them before
any final action is taken
SHORT HEARINGS,
There will be no extended hearings
however, and no opening OF the bars to
all the tariff arguments that might he
introduced for and against the terms
of the new commercial arrangement
Members of the committee believe that
the facts bearing upon the various items
would be fully elected In the hearings
held during the preparation OF the
Payne-Aldrich bill: and that to renew ex-
tensive hearings upon the reciprocity
agreement would needlessly and danger
ously delay its consideration by the
house.
FUTURE UNCERTAIN.
The form of the bill introduced by Mr..
Mccall is such that its future considera-
ton in the house is matter of uncer-
tainty at the present time As a bill
hto raise revenue 1t will be subject to
amendment and change, unless a rule of
cloture is first put through the house
prohibiting amendments and forcing the
house to vote upon the reciprocity agree
ment as whole.
Thine negotiations with Canada result
ed in a definite and concrete arrange
ment which can not be changed in any
particular without upsetting the balance
and the effectiveness OF the whole agree
ment.
For this reason it is the opinion of
those VINO favor the approval of the Can
adam pact that the ways and means
committee and the rules committee will
have to prepare a rule to precede the
bill into the house, providing for Its
consideration as whole and without
amendment
The impression has been strengthened
that President Taft's determination to
secure action upon the reciprocity meas
ure at this session is such that he will
resort to an extra session IL 1t becomes
necessary to bring the matter to final
consideration in both houses of con-
gress. The extra session talk has caused
no little worry, at the capitol.
TRADE FIGURES
Figures of the 1910 trade movements
between Canada and the United States
in the more important of the articles
named in the pending reciprocity agree
ment were completed today by the bu-
reau of statistics of the department OF
commerce and labor. They are:
IMPORTS
Article, boards, deals and planks,
value s17,429,124: flaxseed or Iinseed,
$6,43O, sos; wood pulp, $4.966,53s; coal,
$4,50S.120; fish, $3.613.6SS; printing pa
per. $1,9S3,S72; cream, ;1,sS4,173; laths
$1,707 ,069; shingles. 31,470,Ss3; hay, 81
464.42s; flour, sS50.246; horses, ;s15,
S1s; sheep, $357i1so; oats, s249,S6s;
fruit and nuts. s176.273; coke, $16s,s2si
butter, $137,562; cattle. $f23,2US; wheat,
$119.S9S; potatoes, $4,000. :
EXPORTS.
Coal, $S2, SIS, 00S; boards, deals and
planks, $7,610,2Ol; fruits and nuts, $1s3,
OH; corn, 1851, automobiles and
parts Of $5,oO6725; agricultural imple-
ments, $4,S21. 1888; horses, $S262,74o; coke.
$2,37s, 700; traction engines, s2.1ss.5ssI
timber, $1.63s.742; pork. picked. 81, 1885,
1893; cottonseed oil, $1,111,44S; lard, s1,oSs.
6S5: wheat, 81 ,O63, 40S; clocks and watches,
ssSs, s37; tinplates. $751;, 7ls; barbed wire,
$766, 4s1; fish,, So, sls; hams. $3.50, OBS; print
ing paper, $446s14: cattle. s31s.072 bacon,
81, 1872: slaves. 1924, 4Ss; -four, $192,043;
hay, SIG, 435; potatoes. s155.s14; butter,
$59,O64; windwills. SIS, 6SS; woodpulp, $4s.-