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Show COMMITTEE ADOPTS ROOT AMENDMENT Canadian Treaty Will Be Reported to Senate .With, out Recommendation. OTHER AMENDMENTS ARE VOTED DOWN Subject to Be Threshed Out on Senate Floor Begin-, Begin-, . ning Tuesday.. WASHINGTON. Juaa . Th Canadian Cana-dian Tacipietltj bin wag aetad span today to-day by tha aenate finance committee and will be reported Tuesday without recommendation. Tha Boot amendment ELtHTJ BOOT. New York senator whoaa amendment to tba Canadian reciprocity treaty waa adopted by senate finance committee. to tba print papar and wood pulp provision provi-sion waa adopted by tba eonunlttaa by a vote of to 6. An attempt to authorise an unfavorable unfa-vorable report raanltad In a tie vote and another tie, marked tha first effort to report 'without recommendation bafara that result waa accomplished. ' The votea oa tha measure ware a surprise sur-prise to member of the aeaata. it aad bee generally believed that the flaanca eommitte would ahift responsibility responsi-bility to tha senate, leaving tha real fight to b waged oa th floor. At the last moment tha opposition ia th committee com-mittee seemed to solidify. -Get Boxy Early. . The committee met in executive session ses-sion today aad immediately proceeded to vote oa amendments. Th first modlfientioa offered wns by Senator (Continued on page 10.) e COMMITTEE ADOPTS (ContlnnH from page 1.) Nelson of Minnesota, which would have reduced, instead of raising dutie on live stock and farm prodnct. This was defeated without a roll calf and th sain fat waa meted ont to th house free list bill. The latter prorisioa was formally offered br Senator Bailey . and received only hia vote and those of Senators Himmons and Kern.. An amendment by Mr. Simmons to inelud flour and meat in th free list also was voted down. - The Root amendment requiring th admission of American wood pulp and paper into Canada free of duty, then was voted into the bill without discussion, discus-sion, th amrmativ vote being cast , by Senatora Lodge, Smoot, Gafiinger, 1 Clark (Wyoming), Heyburn, La Follett J Bailey and Simmons, and the negative , iji.. j'vlf by Mears, Penrose, Cullom, MeCumber W (Republican) and Stone, Kern and W Williams (Democrats). Bom Tt Vote. On a motion for a favorable report the vote atood 0 to 8, and on th succeeding suc-ceeding motion for an unfavorable report re-port there waa a tie of 7 to 7. Th sam result at first followed a motioa for a report without recommendation, but Senatora Oallinger, Bailey and Simmons, Sim-mons, who at first cast their ballots in the negative, ultimately changed, and thus allowed the bill to go to the sen-st sen-st without recommendation whatever, by a vote of 10 to 4. Senator Johnson John-son of Maine wa absent. Senator Williams of Mississippi thea moved that Chairman Penrose be su-thorized su-thorized to report th hill at today ' session of th senate, but th motioa received only the vote of Messrs. Willis Wil-lis mi, Ston and Kern. Several mi-' nority reporta ar expected, and as it was desired that- they should be presented pre-sented with the majority report it wa decided to postpone until Tuesday th reporting of any of them. What Amendment Provif as, Ths'Rnol smendment provides that th paper and wood pulp aectlon of the bill snail not ee In force until th president i "shall have aattsfactory evidence aad will make public that such wood pulp, paper ; and board, being the producta of the Unit ed Blatee, ara admitted Into all of th provinces of Canada free of duty." Opponent, of the amendment contend that It raises the truest Ion of the Oana- dtsn a-overnment'a Jurisdiction over th . provinces and that Ita addition will en- i danger the bill. The president already has begun a campaign looking to th ds- ' feat of th amendment on the floor. |