SUGGESTED SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 7

SUGGESTED SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENT.

A REQUEST. WASHINGTON, 11th April. A resolution requesting President Taf t to formulate a subsidiary reciprocity agreement with Canada has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives. Priority is asked with regard to the removal of the duties on meats, wheat., Hour, farm implements, machinery, cut- • lery, and lumber products. [In the session of Congress jusfc ended, remarked the New York Post on the 6th of last month, the question of reciprocity with Canada overshadowed all others, and the political situation at its close turns almost entirely on that question. Had the Republican "-regulars" in the Senate devoted themselves to an earnest effort to put through President Taft's proposal, they could have accomplished it, and thereby avoided what must be regarded, from their standpoint, as an extremely ugly position of affairs. Had that question been sat at rest, the tariff issue would have been quieted until next winter. As it is, the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans, acting together, will be able to pass any tariff-reform measure they please; and. surely the. insurgents will be more than ever ready to act with the Democrats after the Reciprocity Bill shall have been passed. They will say, of course, that the tariff bars having been lowered in regard to things their constituents sell, they will take the first opportunity to help put the bars down in regard to some of the things that they buy. The only escape from this situation would lie in a combination of regulars and insurgents to defeat the Reciprocity Bill; but this deliberate defeat of the Piesident's chief measure would put the- party into the worst kind of hole.]