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Show WILL REDUCE FOOD PRICES Reciprocity Agreement With Canada Expected to Result in Great Good to Americans. Washington. Within less than ten months after the Initiation by President Presi-dent Taft of negotiations with the Canadian Ca-nadian government there was laid simultaneously before the American congress at Washington and the Canadian Ca-nadian parliament at Ottawa, oil Thursday, 4 reciprocity arrangement which, if approved, will do much, in the opinion of the negotiators, to enlarge en-large trade between the United States and Canada. The arrangements do not take the form of a treaty, and considerable time will bo saved In the consummation consumma-tion of the agreement, which can be made effective by a simple majority vote In each of the two legislatures. 'lhe animating purpose of Secretary Knox appeared to have been to procure pro-cure a reduction of the "high cost of living" by greatly enlarging the free list so far as it relates to foodstuffs joining from Canada. On the other hand, he procured a rotable abatement of duties on a lumber of American products consum-mI consum-mI In Canada. Prominent among these a bituminous coal, which la now exported ex-ported to Canada to the value of sev-?ral sev-?ral million dollars annually. There Is i!ho a much better opening for Amerl-:an Amerl-:an farm machinery and implements. |