People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — RECIPROCAL RELATIONS. [ARTICLE]

RECIPROCAL RELATIONS.

A Convention at St. Paul Demands Freer Trade Between tlie United States and Canada. j St. Paul, Minn., June 7.— The followi ing were chosen permanent officers of ' the international reciprocity convenI tion on Tuesday: I James Fisher, M. P. P., of Winnipeg, chairman; P. H. Kelly, of St. Paul, vice chairman: ; Dr. J. Maginnis, of Grand Forks, secretary; and J. H. Beek, of St. Paul; S. A. Thompson, of Duluth, and C. N.' Bell, of Winnipeg, assoi elate secretaries. During the morning session William | M. Springer, of Illinois, chairman of the ways and means committee of the j national house of representatives, was | introduced and expressed himself in i favor of reciprocity with all the states | on the American continent. Mr. SpringI er was also the principal speaker at a i mass-meeting held Tuesday night. ! At the afternoon session addresses I were made by President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern railroad; Dr. ; Orton, former member of the Canadian [ parliament; J. A. Hayne, of Minneapolis; Mr. Hall, of Brandon Man., and S. A. Thompson, of Duluth. The resolutions, read by E. V. Smalley, chairman of the committee, were adopted unanimously. They are practically as follows: “In the opinion of this convention the policy unanimously approved by the first international reciprocity convention at Grand Forks, and now reaffirmed, of removing the tariff and restrictions upon our international trade so far as can be done consistently with a due regard to the revenue requirements and other interests of the two nations, may be most advantageously carried into effect by a treaty providing for the free interchange of those classes of the products, both natural and industrial, of each one that are the most generally in demand or usually find the readiest sale in the markets of the other. Such a policy in the circumstances ol the United States and Canada is capable of being applied to many classes of industrial products as well as to natural products generally. It would result in giving to Canada a market now denied it for many classes, of industrial products as well a: to natural products generality. It would result in giving to Canada a market now denied it foi much of its produce, with compensating advantages to the United States, and that without affecting a large part of their respective customs revenues. “The cheapest possible transportation is s matter of prime importance to the interest ol the whole northwest, Canadian as well as American, and we favor the improvement of existing waterways and the construction of additional channels of communication between the greal lakes and the ocean of sufficient capacity to allow a free passage of ocean vessels and which should be free of all tolls. “Any reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada should provide for the free and common use by the people ol both countries of all canals now built or hereafter to be built, to facilitate commerce between the great lakes and the ocean, and should also provide for free and open competition between the railway systems of the two countries in order to reduce the cost of transportation from the interior to the seaboard to the lowest figures consistent with the efficiency and reasonable prosperity of the roads. “In order to secure the desired results soughl to be obtained by this convention a joint committee shall be appointed by the permanent chairman of the convention, consisting of ten members, five of them to be selected from the dominion of Canada and five of them from the United States. II shall be the duty of this committee to take charge and prosecute this work after adjournment of this convention by using such means as they may deem proper to bring the matter before the Dominion parliament and the Canadian authorities and before the congress of the United States and the American authorities and before the people of the two countries.”