Show OPPOSITION TO RECIPROCITY S GOMES COMES S j McCumber Is Opposed to I General Agreement With Canadian Govern Government ent I i WASHINGTON TON March 2 Opposition tion to any general reciprocity agree agreement ment wi with h Canada was voiced today b by Chairman McCumber of the senate finance committee e when informed that W. W S S. S Fielding Canadian minister of offin fin finance nce was in Washington In the interests of such an agre agreement ent Canada has only agricultural products products products prod prod- to send to the United States un under under under un- un der such an agreement said Senator McCumber and we have an exportable exportable exportable ex ex- ex- ex portable surplus of such commodities I ties The fiance committee chairman and j lother other m members of the committee expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the opinion that the reciprocity I ity lity law passed by congress congre s in 1911 was vas a dead letter although never formally repealed Senator McCumber McCumber ber said the United States had made madea a definite proffer to Canada which this country had specifically refused to accept and that since then then tariff legislation had been enacted without reference to the 1911 act Repeal of the law Is provided in inthe inthe inthe the so called permanent tariff bill passed by the house last year and now under consideration by the finance n- n fi finance nance committee W WASHINGTON March 2 Ari An increase In Increase increase in- in crease of more than 90 in the public debt during February was announcer announced announced an an- today by the treasury |