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Show DEMOCRATS MAY I PASSEASURE H WASHINGTON. Fob. 1. Tho at- H titudo of the House Democrats to- H wards the receproclty agreement with Hj Canada Is being canvassed at the ln- H Btanco of Minority Leader Clark. H Today he asked even- state dele- H gatlon to tako up the matter and ro- H port to him so that ho might know H tho goncral tomper. H New York, led ty Representative H Sulsor, started tho ball rolling, 'and H the conferenco was unanimously In Hj favor of passage. Virginia delogatcs H hold a meeting at tho samo timo and Hj tho consensus of opinion was for the H agreement. Democrats from other H states talked over the situation, and H tho argument, so far as it dovoloped, H seemed, to bo that the Democrats H should pass tho measure. Secretary B of State Knox and Special Agont j Charles M. Pepper, of tho State De- H partment, In a hearing beforo tho H ways and means committco next fM Thursday, will urge the Republicans Hl to support the agreement. |