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Show NORTH DAKOTA NS HEARD BY SENATE COMMITTEE Delegation of Big and Little Farmers Express Their Views on the Reciprocity Pact, By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May IS. A delegation of North Dakota farmers was the most conspicuous object today hi an all-day hearing on the Canadian reciprocity bill beforo tho senate Jlnanco committee. Fn addition, representatives of the plate glass factories and the lumber manufacturers criticised the bill. J. M. Dcvlne of North Dakota .summarized .sum-marized the effects that his delegation considered would come from the enactment enact-ment of thn reciprocity bill. Ho said it would seriously injure 30.000,000 persons without a corresponding benefit, Trcadwcll Twitehcll. a COuo-m-rc farmer, farm-er, for the "bjg farmers," uud R. T. King- man. a GOO-aere farmer, for the "sntall farmers," N..G. Larimer, former Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Governor Lewis of North Dakota and Iphn R. Mauff of the American Society j of Equity in North Dakota, a farmers' I organization, all made protests against tho bill. j |