Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-12
ARTICLES ARE MADE FREE
Canadian Reciprocity Agreement
Also Submitted to House.
TO TAKE UP LATTER FRIDAY
Election Of United States Senators
by Direct Vote to Be Discussed
Tomorrow.

reached by the democratic caucus held
last night, Representative Oscar w.
| Underwood Of Alabama, chairman Of the
| committee on ways and means, today
| introduced In the House one bill en-
! bodyfng the terms of the Canadian
reciprocity pact and another authoriz-
ing changes in the tariff as a conces-
sion to- the agricultural interests, which
| are bitterly opposed to the Canadian
agreement.
The Underwood reciprocity bill is in all
essentials drawn along the same lines
| as the Mccall bill, which passed the
| House in the last session, but failed in
the Senate. In fact, the same language
Is used, only few verbal changes ap-
| pearing in the measure, both bills hav-
Ing been patterned after the agreement
negotiated with Canada by President
Taft.
| The farmers bill, the second measure
presented by Chairman Underwood, places
hundred or more articles on the free
/ list, including agricultural implements,
leather goods, fence wire. meats, cereals,
List Of Articles.
The complete list Of articles which it is
proposed to transfer to the free list fol-
lows:
Plows. tooth and disk harrows, headers.
harvesters. reapers. agricultural drills and
planters. mowers. horserakes, cultivators.
thrashng machines and cotton gins, farm
wagons and farm carts, and all other
agricultural implements. including repair
parts.
Bassing for cotton. gunny cloth and all
similar fabrics, suitable for covering and
baling cotton; burlaps and bags or sacks
for sacking agricultural products: hoop
or band iron. or hoop or band steel, of
all. descriptions. for baling cotton or any
other commodity: and wire for baling
hay. straw and other agricultural prod
ucts. grain leather. and buff split, rough
or sole leather, band. bend or betting
leather: boots and shoes made wholly or
in chief value of leather made from
cattle hides and cattle skins Of whatever
weight, and harness, saddles and sad
dlery, and leather for manufactured ar
ticles: barbed fence wire. wire rods, wire
strands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wire fencing, and other
kinds of wire suitable for fencing, in
Guiding wire staples: beef. veal, mutton,
lamb. pork and meats Of all kinds. fresh,
salted, picked, dried, smoked. dressed
any manner; bacon, hams, shoulders,
lard. lard compounds and lard substitutes,
and sausage and sausage meats; buck
wheat sns hour; cornmeal, wheat -four
N.
middhngs and other ofrals Of grain, oat-
meal and rolled oats, and all prepared
cereal foods: biscuits, bread, waters and
similar articles not sweetened: timber,
hewn. sided or squared. round timber
used for spars or in building wharves.
shingles, laths, fencing posts, sawed
boards, planks. deals and other lumber.
rough or dressed boards. planks, deals
and other lumber or lignum vitae, lance
wood. ebony. box. granadilla, mahogany,
rOSeUOnd Safinwn06 and all other "a hi
net woods: sewing machines, and all
parts thereof: salt. whether in bulk or in
bags, sacks, barreled or other packages.
Reciprocity Next Friday.
Chairman Underwood said this after
noon Immediately following adjournment
that the reciprocity bill would be taken
up in the House on Friday. Tomorrow.
he said. an effort would be made to
election Of United States senators by d.
rect vote Of the people. and also the bill
amending the recently enactedlaw dealing
with the publicity of campaign contrtbu-
tons, so as to provide for publicity OF
such contributions before as we'll as after
elections.
This program indicates that the demo-
Gratis are not going to waste any time
where they realize that they will have a
rough and rugged road to travel.
Canadian reciprocity and the partial re-
vision Of the tariff as proposed In the
farmers bill are now vital issues in Con-
ress. The democrats have launched their
tariff program and are ready to carry it
out. The reciprocity measure will be put
through in quick time and the farmers
bill will follow Immediately thereafter.
The democrats believe that the partial
bill'' introduced today by Mr.. Underwood
will make q hit with the country. The
principal objection urged with the Can
adian agreement came from the repre-
sentatives Of the farmers.
They complained that Canadian reci-
procity, as laid down in the administra-
ton agreement, was unfair to the farmer.
The argument was made that II placed
his products on the free list while MAIN
tanning protection on articles that he
consumed or used in his labor. The DEM
ocrats are after the farmer vote as we'll
as the vote OF the ultimate consumer.
The House was in session less than half
an hour today. No business was trans
acted other than the passage of resolu-
tons affecting the business Of the House.
The tariff bills introduced by Chairman
Underwood OF the ways and means COM
mittee were not discussed.
Before adjourning the House elected
NJ T. Conry of New York a member OF
the committee on revision of the laws
| and Charles Q. Carlin Of Virginia to the
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