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Show TRY FOR TREATY ' j . 7iT!3 CANJIDH Secrctcry ncot UillEii-ieavcr UillEii-ieavcr to Drng Set - tlenenl Atoute .'. WASHINGTON, March - JL Coh-vinced Coh-vinced that reciprocity treaties with Great. Britain for the establishment of closer trad - relation between the United BUtes and Canada ar out of the question at" this time. Secretary Root has determined to abandon the tariff question for the present, and is busying himself with other matters of vital Interest to this country and Canada Can-ada In the hope of settling points of difficulty which bade fair to be settled set-tled by - the Joint . high commission when the Klondike gold strike caused the negotiations to be broken off suddenly, sud-denly, and engendered a feeling of hostility wblch did not subside until a mixed tribunal fixed th boundary between the British and , American mineral lands. .'., A canvass of the' Senate persuaded Secretary Root that a treaty would not be considered at this session of Con-gross. Con-gross. Although ther was much clamor for tariff revision and modi.1-cation modi.1-cation early In the aeaFion, It failed to gain many supporters, and the recent announcement of Chairman Payne of th lloure Committee on Ways and Means, that no tarlfr legislation would te passed by this Congress, confirmed the rctx?rts that Republican leaders had srreed to accept tfcs counsel of the "taui-fiatUra," - - V ' ' |