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Show TAFT WORRIED OYER ROOT AMENDMENT WASHINGTON. Jun, T Abandon, ing hop, of defeating in eommittoa th Boot amegilment to th, Canadian reei proritr bill, affertiDf the print paper nd wood pnlp .Una, of th, agreement, agree-ment, friends of th, measure hav, begun be-gun ns th, floor of th, senate an art ire campaign to prevent its arepfaara. Ths president showed anxiety over tha situation, when, after an executive easion of the senate Onance committee, commit-tee, he appealed to th. Democratic senator, to stand out against toe amendment. Senator Btono expressed confidence that mora than a majority would be found voting against th. Root and all other amendment,. Th, administration has aontended that amendment of th, bill, probably would be fatal and bv reason of this, th, measure waa passed by th, house in th, form desired by the state da partment. Th, earn, argument waa advanced when th, meaanr, waa turned over to th, senat, finance committee, and Chairman Penroae of th, committee ha, endeavored to prevent conaidera tion of amendment,. Secretary Knox did not appear before th, committee to explain th, inwardness inward-ness of th, agreement, and to urge the committee to report the measnr, to tb, senate in its preeent form. Ha waa expected to devot, eonsiderahl, time to the Root amendment, explaining wherein where-in it would nullify or poet none th, agreement, but h, sent word that previous previ-ous engagement prevented hi, appear anre. The principal fight on th, floor will b, baaed on th. Root provision, but whether it i accepted or rejected, the friends of reciprocity are now hopeful of succesa. Tb, reaanna are found in th, decision of a majority of the Democratic Demo-cratic senator, to make no effort to attach at-tach th, house free list in th, reciprocity reci-procity measure. A decided majority of Democrata ar, favorable to reeiproeitv, but . until un-til comparatively recently, many of them disposed toward political advaa tage. made th, condition that tha a nadian bill should receive no consideration considera-tion except in connection with th, vet Democratic measure. They hava abandoned aban-doned that position and now aay they will oppose all amendment, of whatever what-ever nature. Advocates of th, bill ar, confident ef sneers,, but no one predict a vols earlier than July 15, and some extend the time bv a Booth. , feenator ftton, of Missouri ia among , th, leading supporters of th, rect-proeitv rect-proeitv bill, but he will insist upon consideration of th, tariff measurea sent over from th, house. Senator Penroee will make aa effort to get the reci procity bill out of th, committee on finaac, tomorrow, but as manv amend meats will be preaented be may fail. Th, bill will be reported without recommendation. recom-mendation. ' - |