RECIPROCITY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 31 January 1911, Page 5

RECIPROCITY

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9 BILL IN AMERICAN CONGRESS.

PREDICTED REJECiION BY

SENATE

(Received January 30, 8.50 o'clock.)

NEW YORK, January 29

On Saturday the United States House of Representatives referred the Reciprocity Bill to the Committee of Ways and Means. The Bill will be considered as a whole. It cannot be amended. The Bouse of Representatives is expected to pass the measure, but the Senate will probably defeat *t, in spite of President Taft's energetic efforts on behalf of the agreement.

An extra session of Congress is considered probable.

NEWFOUNDLAND FISHING IN-

TERESTS

(Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.)

The Scotsman states that some of the secondary results of the agreement between the United States and Canada may pro've of' greater importance than the immediate effect to international trade. It welcomed the Newfoundland, but deplored the New England fishing interests, <is the probable precursor of a similar arrangement settling a long-stauding fiscal fishery questions between Newfoundland, Canada and the United States. Meanwhile Freetraders should note that the two Protectionist countries bargained for the purr pose not of heightening, but of 'offering, and' in places removing the barriers to trade, reducing with these the cost of living. Moreover, they bargained succesfully, because 111.like Britain, they had .something to bargain with.

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION,

OTTAWA, January 29,

Opinions on the Reciprocity agreement show a cleavage. On one hand it is recognised that the cost of living will be reduced, and on the other hand it is thought the agreement may result in a weakening of Itu-! perialistic bonds.

PRESS OPINION'S

BRITISH TRADE THREATENED

LONDON, January 29,

The Standard declares that the agreement emphasises the necessity for pressing the Imperial propaganda with renewed energy lest in a few years Britain's place "be definitely taken "by America. The agreement is a new departure in Canadian national development, and the consequences are likely to be serious to British trade.

OPINION OF THE TIMES

WHERE BRITAIN AND AMERICA

WOULD AGREE. (Received Last Night, 10,55 o'clock.) LONDON, January 23. The Times, in an article analysing the Declaration, states that it might perhaps be best to accept the Declaration, with all its defects, welcome the substantial boons it confers, and submit to its drawbacks, if the results of the refusal to ratify the Declaration were the complete isolation of Britain. That, however, in all probability will not be so, pro vided that we negotiated with the countries agreeing with us on certain cardinal points. The Times adds : "It is not unlikely that America would adopt our -views upon several points of vital importance, especially the legal position of foodstuffs. Heretofore, the politics of the United States and Britain, regarding international law, were much the same. Our precedents had been theirs. In ours we were guided by' Marshal and Story, they .by Stowell. Let the .common course, of development be continued and extended by the Anglo Declaration. Such an agreement could not fail to attract the adhesion of the other Powers.