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Show Insurgents and Demo- crals Are Demanding Tariff Revision Washington, June 27. Chairman Penrose of the Senate finance committee, com-mittee, Introduced a resolution to fix July 24 for the vote of the reciprocity bill. It was defoated throught Senator Sen-ator La Follettc's objection. Tho debate Indicated that a portion of tho Republican insurgents and Democrats will fight to have tho wool revision and tho trco list bills passed on first, before the senate passes the reciprocity bill. Washington, Juno 27 Defenso of the Canadian reciprocity agreement was made on tho floor of the senate today by Senator Townsend of Mich-igau, Mich-igau, insurgent Republican. Not only would he lend his support to tho bill now under consideration, the senator declared, but he would havo a treaty which would have Included In-cluded all of the products of Canada and the United States InJuslrlcs on the free list He would vote for the mcasuro In Its present form as "an agreement to begin taking down the useless wnll betwoon parts of the same Industrial field " For the purpose of Increasing the benefits which he held would flow from tho agreement. Senator Town-send Town-send proposod an amendment to tho hill providing that the president should try to form an agreement with Canada Can-ada looking to the Improvement of the St ' Lawrence r.ver from the Great Lakes to tho Atlantic. The farmer ha 1 nothing to fear from tho agreement; the speaker contended. "It cannot harm the farmers," he declared. de-clared. "It is the beginning of a pol-' icy which I have long favored, viz? a change of tariff conditions In conformity con-formity with tlie well-understood theory the-ory of protection. "As fast as tho facts can be ohUiin-cd ohUiin-cd tho tarlif scbedulos should bo re-v visoJ. a sclentillc system of duties established. I want tho wool, cotton, steel and other acnedulcs revised if a determination nf facts discloses that revision Is neded l will noL however, proceed bllndlj ln tho matter ' |