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Show GAMBLE SAYS TREATY NOT JUSTOR FAIE The South Dakota Senator Calls It Severe Blow to Farmer. W A P H I X (i TON. .June 3 f. h a rao terizinff th Cnnadian rfiprooity affre pnt nn a "wvore airi unwarrant1! blow at thr ajfriultiirnl iutcrcata ft the couDtrv.' Senator ftainhle of South D kota continued in the ncnate today the attack on t he meaure which wan begun by intureut jnatorn. l "The measure proposed,' said 8na- .tor Oamble, 'ia unjust, unfair, unre-pubtirnn unre-pubtirnn and in in vio.anon of the declared: de-clared: and settled policy of the party for more than a generation, t means to me a serums blow to the American farmer, which' places him in unequal and unfair competition with his Canadian Cana-dian rival without fair and just com: pennatkm. ' 1 cannot persuade myself that in anv sense this agreement follows the rnfa of our party faith in the polioy of either protection or reciprocity. Atj far as I am concerned. I cinnot vote for its enactment or it ratification. Had it been proposed bv the oppottition 1 could readilv appreciate tliat it is in line with their-fcympathy and their policy." Republicans Against It." Senator Gamble pointed out that the measure had heen passed both tune ui the house with "a majority of the Rr- publican party against it. 'With the highest respect for thei president, " said Senator Gamble, and with great confidence in hin wisdom, 1 ; am unable to follow him in the pro-1 poved legislation. have no criticism to make on the president for the course he hat pursued. pur-sued. 1 would have preforred, however, how-ever, that congress in the first instance had heen advised with and consulted therein and we would not then have here a proposition of executive origin which we can only arbitrarily dispose of. " The hill waa referred to as a revision f the tariff so far as the farmer's products pro-ducts were concerned without any equivalent equiva-lent reduction of. du:y in the things he Is compelled to buy. Senator Gamble aid the farmer Is apparently to be sac rificed. his prosperity cheeked and hts opportunity of pvtenston and enlargement rurtallei. In this respect he Is practically heipletut to protect h:mslf by comhina- Hon or otherwise, said Senator' Gamble, t to save himttelf from the general on-. on-. slanght. The hill, he Htd, gave advan- ' tan to the manufacturing: Intereata, and wotild seriously depress the value of farm b, lands in this country. Feara Wrath of F arm era. "Can It be expected." he added, "that the acrlculturidt wttl sustain thn party I under policy which must necessarily deprex'tate the value of his holdings. mitk t unremuneratlve hfs mployrr.eni, le.-n ' the prlr of the thinrs he haa to ee'I ami ' place oim hi rmp'1ilr.n with a foreign , people 'whose production ta from cheaper i tan'ta and at low cost?'" I The possibility of manipulation of International Inter-national railway rates s aa to give Canada Can-ada a monopoly of many Amenrsn mar- I ketsi under the reciprocity treatv, was! emphsstsed by Renator Ciiratmin when he; r-iimed hla sieh akcninst the aaree-; men! In the senate todav. ' I Penstor.(,umminf mi id lie had eallel the! atientHn of the men "who are responsible. ' the maklns; of this agreement" to the raMroad rate dancer. "I think I am violating no confidence.", said Senator Cummins, "when I aav 1 1 was assured lhat somehow, some tlin. ; somewhere, a trestv would be made wtth ' f'anada that would organis a tribunal hat mia-ht review International rates, and that through that tribunal we mlUt re- celve Justice.' i Senator Cummins proposed an amend-' ment that whenever Canadian rjats should make an unreaMonablv low rate to tet Caftadlan produce Into the American ' market, the president should have power' to restore the general tanifT dull. on ar- 1 tlcles affected hy the rates. I i t |