RECIPROCITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 5

RECIPROCITY.

ITS PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT. ASSENT OF SENATE DOUBTED. EXTRA SESSION EXPECTED. Cr TclccraDli-l'ress AssoclaUon-Capjrljlit Now York, February 19. Reports from Washington regarding Canadian Reciprocity declurcs that Hie prospects in .Senatorial circles aro nut bn'gllt. it is pointed out that tho h'ennlc has yet to consider ten Appropriation Bills urforc the adjournment. Mr. Taft is believed to havo acknowledged that un extra session is inevitable. He hopes to r?ly on tho Democratic votp in tho new House. The Dill is expected to bo reported to tho Senntn on Thursday next. Bills taking prccedenco over tho Reciprocity measure include ones dealing with tho Panama Canal fortifications and a Permanent Tariff Board, both highly controversial subjects. ' AN AMERICAN ZOUVEREIN. NEW AGREEMENT TOE FIRST STEP. London, February 19. Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, Secretory of tho Tariff Commission, speaking nt Rochdale, raid the Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and tho United States was tho first step toward the formation of n North American Zollverciii. Tho scheme of reciprocal railway rates foreshadowed in President Taft's Messago to Congress was of incalculable importance, nnd seeing that the new movement ran counter to the ideals of the two peoples, and would provo of immediate- disadvantage to Great Britain, it was a serious question how to account for tho strange silence of Mr. Bryco, British Ambassador to Washington. Tho Government had a cablegram from Earl Grey, GovernorGeneral of Canada, on January 27, but full dotnils of tho Agreement wero not published until seventeen' days later, FRENCH COMMENT. LOOSENING OF ANGLO-CANADIAN-TIES. (Rec. February 20, 9.30 p.m.) February 20. "La Tomps," in discussing tho prospect of Canada withdrawing from tho military and economic unity of tho Empire, says tho loosening of Anglo-Canadian ties creates a bad impression, and completes tho novel picture, already outlined by other traces, of an England more hesitating, less practical, more partisan, and less national than of yore. English tradition, tho writer adds, is being lost in con : fusion and compromise.