AMERICAN POLITICS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 178, 14 July 1911, Page 1

AMERICAN POLITICS.

THE RECIPROCITY DEBATE. Washington, July 13. Senator Bailey’s free list amendment on the Reciprocity Bill was defeated by a large majority. Air. Bailey introduced a wool tariff amendment .but the Senate adjourned before the vote could betaken.

The amendment is a modification of the Wool Bill recently passed in the Lower House, and it places all duties on raw manufactured wool at a general average of 30 per cent.

TAX ON BRIDES. RO UGH ON ’ FORTUNEJI UNTERS. In the House of Representatives, Air. J. H. Kahn, of California, proposed a heavy tax should be imposed on the dowers of American brides in cases of international marriages, so that the penurious but titled fortune-hunter might secure but a small moiety of the price the bride pays him for the. name he himself dishonours by putting himself up to auction for the highest bidder.

ON NUDGING TERMS WITH ROYALTY.

■ Air. R. O. Henry criticised the Vice-Regal state assumed in London by the Ambassador, Air. Whitelaw Reid, denouncing as an undemocratic habit rhe appointing of only wealthy men to diplomatic posts. He alluded to the story that Air. Hays Hammond, the special American envoy to the Coronation, had nudged the King at the Foreign Office dinner ,and said sarcastically that at the next Coronation Air. Hammond attended he would be sure to nudge the Queen. Mr. Kahn, replying, defended the American Ambassadors against the charge of extravagance. The debate was adjourned.