CANADA AND THE STATES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 21 February 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND THE STATES

AMERICAN SENATE HOSTILE,

OTHER MEASURES WILL TAKE PRECEDENCE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, February 19. Reports from Washington regarding the Canadian reciprocity agreement declare that its prospects are not considered bright in senatorial circles. It is pointed out that the Senate has yet to consider ten appropriation Bills before the adjournment. Mr. Taft is believed to have acknowledged that an extra session is inevitable. He hopes to be able to rely on the Democratic rotes in the new House. The Bill is expected to be reported to the Senate on Thursday. Bills taking precedence of the reciprocity agreement include a measure dealing with the Panama Canal fortifications and the permanent tariff board, both highly controversial subjects.

NORTH AMERICAN ZOLLVEREIN. London, February 19. Professor .W, Hewins, secretary of the English , Tariff Commission, speaking at Rochdale, said that the reciprocal agreement between Canada and America was the first step towards the formation of a North American zollerverein schemie. Reciprocal railway rates were foreshadowed in Mr. Taft's message to Congress. The agreement was of incalculable importance, seeing that the new movement would raise counter ideals in the two peoples, and would be an immediate disadvantage to Britain. It was a serious question how to account for the strange silence of Mr. Bryce, the British Ambassador. The Government had Earl Grey's telegram of January 27, giving full details of the agreement, seventeen days before it was published.

LE TEJIPS PENS A PICTURE. Received 20, 9.30 p.m. Paris, February 30. Le Temps, discussing the prospect of Canada withdrawing from the military and economic unity of the Empire, says the loosening of Anglo-Saxon ties creates a bad impression, and completes the novel picture already outlined by other traces of an England more hesitating and less practical, more partisan and less national than of yore, English tradition being lost in confusion and compromise.