CANADA AND U.S.A.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10170, 21 February 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND U.S.A.

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By 'Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

RECIPROCAL RAILWAY RATES. REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON. (Received February 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, February 19. Mr W. A. S. Hewins, Secretary of the Tariff Commission, sneaking at "Rochdale, said ■ the Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and the United States was the first step toward it he formation of a North American ZoUverin. The scheme of resi" procal railway rates foreshadowed in President Taft's Message to Congress was of incalculable importance, and seeing that the new movement ran counter to the ideals of the two people's, and would prove of immediate disadvantage to Greaifr Britain, it was a serious question 'how to ae-' count for the strange .silence of. the Right Hon: Janies Bryce, British Ambassador to Washington. The Government had a cablegram from Earl Grey, Governor-General of Can ada,"on 27th January, but full derails of the Agreement were not published until seventeen days later. NEW, YORK, February 19. . Reports from Washington regarding Canadian Reciprocity declare that the prospects in Senatorial circles are not bright. 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 rely on the Democratic votes in the new House. The Bill is expected, to be reported to the Senate on Thursday next. Bills taking precedence over the Reciprocity measure include ones dealing with the Panama Canal fortifications and a Permanent Tariff Board, bpth highly controversial subjects. ■;>. ;

A FRENCH CRITICISM

(Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) . " '"";' PARiS,'February 20. ; The newspaper Temps, discussing the prospect of Canada withdrawing from the military and economic unity of the Empire, says that the Uoosening of the . AngloCanadian ties creates a bad impression, and completes the novel picture, already outlined, by other traces, of an England more hesita*" ing and less practical, more partisan and less natural than, of yore. The English tradition, it says, is being lost in confusion .and compromise.'