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Show 'BEPEAUS URGED OP RECIPROCITY Committee Asks Striking From Statutes Measure Affecting Canada. WASHINGTON, July 26. Repeal of the Canadian reciprocity act of 1911 was recommended today by the house ways and means committee. Some Democrats .joined with the Republicans in voting for repeal, but others said that actici should be deferred pending further investigation. The committee also voted to recommend recom-mend the repeal of the 10 per cent soft drink war tax. Though no record vote was taken, Democratic members urged that all repeals be deferred until means ior replacing the lost revenuo was found. Reduction of the war tai on fruit juices to 2 cents a gallon, urged by western producers ot grapes and loganberries, logan-berries, also was recommended. A report on the Canadian reciprocity act by Representative Young, Worth Dakota, pointed out that the Canadian parliament never passed reciprocal legislation. legis-lation. "It is hoped," it said, ''in view of the formal rejgetion by Canada of the proposed reciprocal agreement, that the bill may be considered without partisanship and speedily passed." Repeal of the reciprocity measures will not affect the removal of tarifY? duties on wood pulp, wheat flour, potatoes pota-toes and potato products. A bill yet to be acted upon by the president proposes repeal or the measures, meas-ures, except that applying to wood pulp. Measures designed to give tariff protection pro-tection to several industries started as war necessities also were recommended. Those not previously announced was one imposing a duty of $10 a unit of twenty pounds on imports of tungsten. . |