March 23, Tae announcement of the Washington State Department "that there is no ray of hope of any those, including not a few American manufacturers, who were pinning their hopes on President Taft's avowed anxiety to apply, throughout, the minimum and not the maximum rates of the Payne Tariff. Wu the 31st of this month the President will proclaim a list of the countries entitled to the minimum tariff; but the hopes once entertained that Canada would figure on the list are apparently shattered. "It is believed," says Reuter, "that a tariff war must inevitably break out on April 1." The sincerity of President Tuft is shown by his inviting Mr. W. 8. Fielding, Minister of Finance for the Dominion, to a final conference. But while France and the United States have been able to arrive at a complete understanding as regards their respective tariffs,
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