AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 335, 23 June 1911, Page 4

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

A-SENATOR'S BPREAD-EAGIUSM. 1

RECIPROCITY BILi, DISCUSSED.

By cable,—Press Association.—Copyright

Washington, June 21

The House, by 221 votes to 100, passed the Wool Tariff Revision Bill practically unamended.

Congressman Quay (Indiana) offered an amendment placing wool on the free list instead of making it subject to a duty of *2O per cent, ad valorem as the Bill provides, but the amendment was rejected.

During the debate on the Reciprocity Bill in the Senate, Senator Heybourn declared: "Whatever we have taken from England has been taken at tho point of the bayonet. My only hope regarding the reciprocity agreement is that it may lead to the annexation of Canada." Senator Bacon characterised the remarks as a grave matter in view of the pending Anglo-American arbitration arrangement. Senator Hcyboum explained that his remark about the bayonet's point referred only to Government acquisitions. Senator Gullinger asked if the United State did not owe more to England than to Canada, because England's free trade policy had been advantageous to America. Senator Nelson expressed the hope that Canada would one day be part of the United States. Senator Bacon rebuked the speakers for their spread-eagleism, declaring that more benefits had been received by the United States from England than from all the rest of the world. OA MP AT®? AGAINST THE BILL. Ottawa, June 21. Mr. Borden, Leader of the Opposition, is conducting a campaign against the Reciprocity Bill among farming constituencies in Western Canada. He declared that his party was uncompromisingly hostile to the agreement, and urged upon fanners that they would not be promoting their own best interests if they supported reciprocity, which was certain to link the fortunes of Canada and those of the United States.