The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
Extra Session of Congress Is Threatened f Cana
 dian Treaty Fails
HOUSE FAVORS TREATY
 BUT SENATE IS IN DOUBT
Representative of Publishers Says That Paper and Pulp Provisions of Treaty Are Fair and Should
 Be Rgtlfied

chairman of the paper committee of thn American Newspaper Publishers associa-
 tion, will appear tomorrow before the ways and means committee of the House with facts and figures in support of the enactment, without the change of a syI- lable, of the wood pulp provisions of the Canadian reciprocity agreement MT. Norris declared tonight emphatically that there was no truth in the published storias
 to the effect that these provisions ad- mitted of doubtful interpretation as to their meaning. He expressed the opin- ion, moreover, that the agreement as it stands will be ratified by the House by at least two-thirds majority.
 MT. Norris said his statement to tho
 committee would show the reciprocal ben
 efits of the paper clause and insisted
 that he would "confound the papermake-s
 who are trying to nullify the treaty by
 amendments to the paper clause" He
 would show, he said that that clause
 as expressed in the treaty Furnishes the
 only method by which free pulp wood
 can be supplied to American paper mills
 and by which the industry can be pro-
 tected from diversion to Canada" session View
 The degree to which the administration will use, in behalf of the enactment of Is.st utmost efforts to bring
 abd. <uuu.cs by concurrent leg
 islatios S1I Ied in the agreement,
 was made AVUSHiRy in reports brought
 from the wTHQns,e by senators whd
 talked with th( rN 'ent These reports
 left little room ! doubt that should
 Congress adjourn without having ratified
 the agreement the President would forth with convene the new Congress in extra
 ordinary session.
 | The reciprocity matter has moved into
 the foremost place in the legislative pur-
 view, and the President shows every dis
 position to keep 1t there if he can. It is saia tpon excellent a1tlority siIat Ms'
 Taft believes the present Congress will act fayorably in both houses upon the l agreement and there will be no necessity l for an extra session. Every indication
 now forecasts it's adoption by the House I by an overwhelming majority; the only | Goubt appears to be whether those sem
 ators radically opposed to it's enactment | will be able by obstructive tactics to l prevent its adoption by the Senate. The 1 President apparently entertains no such doubt.
 The speeches which MT. Taft will de- liver on the brief western trip. upon which he enters tomorrow night, will be devoted, it is said. practically entirely to the advocacy of the reciprocity agree ment. He spent most of the day at work | upon their preparation. He was to have spoken tonight at the dinner of the League of Republican State Clubs, but withdrew his acceptance, and he cancelled | today all of his Washington engagements for tomorrow in order to devote himself entirely to the preparation of bis western speeches.
 Taft's Attitude
 If administration senators had any doubt about the attitude of President Taft toward the reciprocity agreement it was removed when Senators Crane and | Carter returned to the capital today from a conference with Mir. Taft. The mes- sage which these senators brought to their colleagues was that there must be vote on the agreement at the present session or Congress will be called back in extra
 session almost immediately on adjourn ment of March 4.
 Although Messrs. Crane and Carter declined to discuss their mission to
 the White House, report soon leaked | out that the President was .nsistent | upon a vote. It Is said that he made plain his belief that the country gen. | erally favored the adoption of a re- ciproeal agreement with Canada: that | the Mccall bill to put the agreement 1 into force would pass the House by d large majority and that the Senate would enact the measure If given an opportunity to vote upon 1t.
 The rules of the Senate which per-
 init untrammeled discussion of a meas
 sure are the principal barriers to a vote | In that body It Is known that Sen
 ators Hepburn and Bailey are bitterly opposed to the agreement and that the l opposition extends to almost all of the
 progressive republicans, who represent agricultural states.
 Senator's Give Aid | Senators Crane and Carter entered
 at once upon campaign designed to
 advance the Presidents programme. | The impression has prevailed at the
 capital that President Taft would in- sist upon votes on both the Canadian
 manent tariff board. but this was par
 tially removed today. According to the
 general report at the capitol the Pres | ident places the Canadian agreement
 above the tariff board measure and
 would be satisfied if the former were
 enacted at this session.
 | If an extra session would be called | by reason of the failure of the Sem
 ate to grant vote upon the Canadian proposition 1t Is said the President
 would then create a permanent tarifr
 board and might go so far as to prom
 ise data on the wool and wooden sched-
 ule of the act if the democratic House desired it.
 BritOns Take Offense l London, February S.-Lewis Harcourt.