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Show JVlodern Raleigh To 4.;c? President ! I MAJOR ARCHIE BUTT. PACT CERTAIN TO 60 THROUGH SEiOll President Taft to Win Fight . for Reciprocity With the Dominion of Canada by a Decisive Vote. SIXTY SENATORS IN LINE FOR BILL La Follette Makes Bitter Attack At-tack Upon Administration; Administra-tion; Several Amendments Amend-ments Defeated. WASHINGTON, July 21. The most bitter fight for legislation legisla-tion waged by an administration administra-tion in many years will come to a close tomorrow when the Canadian reciprocity .bill, an issue before two sessions of congress, will be passed by tho senate by a decisive vote. That at least sixty senators out of a total membership of ninety-one, will vote in favor of the measure, was predicted pre-dicted tonight by senators of both political po-litical parties. This will include all but. four or five of the Democrats and also will include a great proportion of the so-called "stalwart" Republicans. Repub-licans. Opposed to the bill will be a majorit3' of the Republican insurgents who come from northwestern states, a few of the Republican regulars and a handful of Democrats. For a time today the senate leaders hoped they might got the bill to tho president before he departs for Beverly Bev-erly tomorrow but a visit by Senators Penrose and Crane to Speaker Clark soon dispelled this expectation, as the speaker explained it would bo impossible impos-sible to hold the house in session long enough to receive tho measure. It is not expected the senate session ses-sion tomorrow will be groath' prolonged, pro-longed, but the liouse, having little to do, rarely has a quorum present these days. - That being likely tomorrow, as the speaker pointed out. it was agreed that tho plan Was impracticable. As the house will ndjournuntil next Wednesday Wednes-day the bill cannot be received until 1 the latter date. ; Will Not Be Changed. The measure has not been and probably prob-ably will not. be changed in auv respect by the senate, and when it Is signed b' Ihe speaker and the vice president it will be dispatched to tho president. Senator La Follette featured in the speech-making today with a vigorous arraignment of President Taft and the bill. He attacked the Democrats of the senate on the grounds lhat they were deliberately trying to carry the tariff issue over to the next campaign for political purposes and pointed out that -thoy had consistently voted down amendments proposing general tariff reductions. Their excuse, he. said, had been that the president, would not hign the reciprocity bill if it were encumbered encum-bered with general tariff amendments. "Talk about his vetoing the reciprocity reci-procity bill with a revision of the woolen schedule added to "it as an amendment." said La Follette, "is preposterous. You might as well expect ex-pect a drowning man to relinquish his hold upon a life proservcr. "You have voted against these amendments onjlie pretext that it will .jeopardize the bill t0 adopt them. That is only because you want to save the tan ft question for tho campaign. You do not want to disposo of the quest iou at this time. "You know that the president has become enamored of this so-called Canadian Ca-nadian reciprocity. He is led to believe be-lieve that he has struck at last, after running the entire gamut, a popular chord, and it is the one thing now upon which he relies to restore his administration ad-ministration to favor." Amendments Defeated. Several amendments to the reciprocity bill wore defeated. Including those by Mr. Drlstow. to reduce- duties on lead bullion bul-lion nnd lead paints and similar lead products, and by Mr. Townaond for an alliance with Canada to enlarge the St Lawrence waterway. tinCI,imr Hmth (J -"I'is.'m. attacklng thu bill, declared Canada would not be the only menace to American lndim-try. lndim-try. He said British capital In ureal abundance Is awaiting to b poured Into Canada when the reciprocity agreement la nilltled. and that from the advantageous advan-tageous ground across the "golden border bor-der British Industries will tluod this country with competitive goods. Thoro are twenty-live amendments to the measure to be acted upon beforo the final vote on the passu go of tho bill. I Many of these propone to affix genera) tarln changes In the agreement. President Presi-dent Taft has Insisted that any changes of this character threaten the defeat' of the entire reciprocity arrangement with Cunnda. I , T1,? .Pending amendments Include the L,n Follette amendment to the cotton and woolen schedules; the .Nelson amendments amend-ments restoring half the duty on airrl- ! cultural products: the Clnpp amendments enlarging tho free list and removing all restrictions on the Importation of paper: amendments by Senators Crawford and Gore reducing the duty on fresh meata; and several similar amendments bv Senators Sen-ators Cummins. Biistny,- nnd others. Party Lines Broken. Parly lines have disappeared In the consideration of the bill. Tariff affiliations, affilia-tions, to outward appearances, have been completely changed. President Taft has had the general support of the Democrats Demo-crats nnd of the Kepubllcan nigulars and In this union of forces he has ha3 enough support so that the bill has never been In danger of deferft or serious amendments amend-ments since the sesnlon began. Canadian reciprocity In Its present form is the outgrowth of the conferences with Dominion representatives ovor the Continued ou Paso Two. PACT CERTAIN TO GO TRiMSEITE President Taft to Win Fight for Reciprocity With Canada by Big Vote. Continued from Page One. settlement of the maximum and minimum rates of the Payne-Aldrlch law of 1009. President Taft. W. S. Fielding, minister minis-ter of finance for Canada, and William Patterson, minister of customs, mot at a formal conference at Albany, N Y., -n March. 1910, for the first discussion of the subject. Open negotiations began In November, when Henri' M. Hoyt and Charles M Pepper of the state department depart-ment went to Otta.wa to confer with Canadian Ca-nadian government officials. In January, Ministers Fielding and Patterson came to Washington iO complete com-plete the work. From January S to January 21, these Canadian representatives, representa-tives, closeted with Secretary of State Knox and other officials in Washington, threshed out the provisions of the reciprocity reci-procity agreemont that was later submitted submit-ted simultaneously to the parliament of Canada and the congress of the United States. The agreement, backed by an official message of indorsement from President Taft. went to the house of representatives representa-tives January 20. From that time up to the present It has held the center of the stage In American political discussions, dis-cussions, has caused party dissensions In this country and In Canada, and baa developed de-veloped tariff dlscuslon Upon new and novel lines. The house passed the bill in the last session of congress February li. It went to the senate, was reached but was reported re-ported out by the finance committee eight days before adjournment and remained re-mained untouched upon the senate calendar cal-endar when the Sixty-first congress came to a close. With the opening of the new congress the new measure appeared under the patronage of Chairman Underwood of ihe house ways and means committee and after long debate the Democratic house passed It April 21 by 2C7 to S9, a majority ma-jority of the Republicans voting against it and all but eleven of the Democrats for it. Long hearings were conducted by the senate finance committee. The commlt-teo commlt-teo finally reported the bill back to the senate June 13, without recommendation either for its passage or its defeat. Since June U the bill has beon contlnu ously before the senate, as Its unfinished unfin-ished business; and attempts to amend It or to bring about its defeat have been consistently unsuccessful. |