CANADA AND UNITED STATES.
RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS.
(.UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.^
WASHINGTON, May 9. The House of Representatives carried the Free List Bill without amendments by 236 to 109. All the Democrats and 29 Republicans supported the Bill. FARMERS AND REPUBLICANS. WASHINGTON, May 9.
President Taft, addressing an organisation .of American farmers, bluntly declared that he was sorry to hear that the-farmers intended to desert the Republican party if reciprocity were effected. He feared that suclj desertion would not affect his conviction regarding the wisdom of the proposed legislation. lif experience showed that farmers suffered. Congress would be certain to repeal the reciprocal tariff. He believed the United States would send more agricultural products Can-ada-wards than they could' receive.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 5
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118CANADA AND UNITED STATES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 5
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