Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1916 — Canadians Refuse to Lift Duty Ban From U. S. Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Canadians Refuse to Lift Duty Ban From U. S. Wheat.

Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 23.—Proposals for the free admission of wheat from the United States into Canada were killed for another year in parliament this afternoon. J. T. Tariff ordered a resolution proposing that the Canadian duty of 12 cents a bushel on wheat be removed so that under the countervailing clause of the Underwood tariff law Canadian wheat could have free admission to the United States market, where it now faces a tariff of 10 cents. The government declared against the resolution on the ground that free wheat had been defeated with reciprocity and because free admission of wheat to American markets would deprive the Canadian railroads of traffic. The resolution was defeated 77 to 44, only one government follower voting in the affirmative.