TARIFF REVISION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1197, 4 August 1911, Page 5

TARIFF REVISION.

FARMERS' FREE LIST BILL. Bj Telecraph-i'reos A«oriailor.~CoriyrlEhl Washington, August 2, The "insurgent" Republicans aud the Democrats have passed through the Senate the Fanners' Free List Bill, after rejecting the House of Representatives' Farmers' Bill. Tho Senate Bill is practically the same, savo that meat products, flour, and cereal products only aro admitted free when coming from countries with which the United States has reciprocity agreements. Canada is'obviously tho country meant. The Democrats regard this as a substantial victory, and they intend, if the President does not vetb the Bill, to open the whole tariff question during the present session. . COMPENSATION FOR THE FARMERS. The lnoaAuroj. known ns the Formers Froo List passed (ho House of Representatives on May 8, by a vote of 23G to 109. Twenty-four so-called "insurgent" Republicans, nearly all of them from the Northwest, voted with ; the DemOcratio majority. Uγ. Underwood had previously promised to bring fo.rward this measure in order to give the formers something to ntono for their treatment in the Canadian Reciprocity Bill. Sonic of the things put on tho fre'o list in this measure aro agricultural implements, boots and shoes, ienco wire, cotton bagging,"sowing machines, and various other articles of manufacture. The Democrats admit that this would sacrifice about .£2,000,000 of revenue, while- Mr. Hill, of Connecticut, speaking against I lie Dill from a Republican standpoint, declared that thrflcss or revenue would bo several times asii great.