The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-25
BATTLE GROUND
/. CROSSES BORDER
Canadians Now Wfesile With
Reciprocity.
C.N7 FEATURE ELIMINATED

Fate Of Trade Agreement In Unlted
States No Longer Factor In Dis
cusslon In Parliament - conserva-
tive Declares Government Is Be-
tween Devil and Deep sea-Now
Seems That General Election VIII
Be Faced Before Vote Is Taken.
ottawa, Ont, July %. - The reel.
procity discussion was renewed in the
house of commons with a new vim,
the prime minister and the minister
of finance for the first time in months
taking part.
The passage Of the Canadian reel
proclty by the United states has add.
ed feature to the situation hero by
removal Of all possibility of uncer-
tainty as to the fate of reciprocity in
the states, and thus taking away
from the opposition one of its ia.
vorite talking themes In the house
things moved rapidly, as they always
do when Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr..
Fielding speak. and their speeches
and those OF the opposition leader
and his followers indicated clearly
that there is little hope of the coun-
try escaping a general election this
fall on the reciprocity issue.
Mr.. Middlcboro. Conservative
member, orened the debate by dc
claring that the government appear
ed o be between the devil and the
deep sea, as indicated by its keeping
parliament in session in the middle
of summe" so as to place the blame
OF going to the country before there
could be a redistribution Of seats in
parliamen, following the census now
taking, upon the opposition.
Many Americans were present
when Sir Wilfrid Laurier said: my
honorable friends rose for the pur-
pose Of trying TO convince this
house and the country at large that
the opposition is not obstructing the
business Of the government and is
not obstructing the reciprocity agree.
ment which has been before this
house since June 26. lie protests
that the opposition Is not obstructing
yet at the same time he says Let
reciprocity wait
Not Obstrueting Reciprocity.
"If this is not obstructing, why not
let reciprocity so on? This is what
we on this side of the house want.
We do not want reciprocity 20 wait
We have had speeches of one kind
and another. We have had the same
arguments repeated ad nauseum. The
other day one of the members pre-
faced his remarks by saying that
there was nothing new to be said on
this question. That was perfectly
true Yet he took three hours to say
what had been said over and over
again. II the honorable gentlemen
opposite wish to prevent an election,
let us go on with the reciprocity
agreement and there will be no cleo
ton"
II seems inevitable that a general
election will take place within few
weeks. In the meantime parliament
Is rapidly getting into a nervous
state that is easily seen in the be.
hayior Of the members. Supplies
have been voted TO Sept. / only. and
Il is the general belief here that be-
fore then Sir Wilfrid Laurier will APP
peal to the country. This would
mean that general election would
be held early in October and that the
newly elected parliament would be in
session in November to pass Ieciproc.
ity, II the present government is re-
turned to power; to ignore II or to
bring in a new reciprocity measure,
with a different label on It, II the
Conservatives are returned to power.