CANADA AND THE STATES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 269, 23 March 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND THE STATES

' THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, March 21. Congressman Champ Clark, permanent chairman of the Democratic Convention, lias promised the Democrats that the special session of the Senate intended to pass the reciprocity agreement. SHELVING THE DEBATE. Received 23, 12.15 a.m. Ottawa, March 22. Parliament will probably shelve the reciprocity debate in order to pass supply before the 31st inst. The Opposition proposes to obstruct. If they are successful in preventing supply, an appeal to the country will be necessary. TRADE COMMISSIONER'S VIEW. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. Mr. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner, was interviewed with reference to Sir William Lyne's cabled statement that if the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States was ratified by the Dominion Parliament Canada would be annexed by the States in eight or ten years and the British Empire begin to disintegrate. Mr. Beddoe said there was no such treaty. It was merely an agreement susceptible of revocation by either Parliament. During thirty years in Canada he had never heard annexation discussed. His impression was that nothing was further from the aspirations of Canadians. They were democratic, but loyal to the Empire and the King, while Americans bad no sympacliy with monarchical government. With regard to the statement of Sir William Van Home that four-fifths of the Canadian people were opposed to the reciprocity agreement, Mr. Beddoe said that, whatever the people thought, it was a fact that the two political parties in Canada had both, without doubt, advocated reciprocity since the <;on- ( |