AMERICAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 121, 14 July 1911, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS.

RECIPROCITY. (Received 14, 8.35 a.m.) Washington, July 13. Senator Bailey’s free-list amendment to the reciprocity poll was defeated by a large majority. Mr Bailey introduced a wool tariff amendment, but the senate adjourned before a vote was taken. The amendment, which is a modification of the Wool Bill recently passed in the Lower House , places all duties on raw and manufactured wool on a general average of 30 per cent. TAXING BRIDE’S DOWERS. In the House of Representatives, Mr J. H. Kahn, California, proposed that a heavy tax be imposed on the dowers of American brides in cases of international marriages, so that penurious but titled fortune-hunters might secure but a small moiety of the price the bride pays him for the name ho himself dishonours by putting it up to auction to the highest bidder. LONDON AMBASSADOR. Mr R. A. Henry criticised the ViceRegal state assumed in London by Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, denouncing as undemocratic the habit of oppointing only wealthy men to diplomatic positions. He alluded to the story of the special American envoys to the Coronation, when one of them nudged the King at the Foreign Office dinner, and said, sarcastically: “At the next Coronation Mr Hammond attended lie would be sure to nudge the Queen.” Mr Kahn, replying, defended the American Ambassadors against the charge of extravagance. The debate was adjourned.