The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-01
Our Commerce with Canada.
pRAFr oF A NRw REo1PRoCIrY TREArY.


Az the request of Secretary McCulloch, Mr.. E,
n. Derby has prepared new draft of new Re-
ciprocity Treaty, which was laid before Congress
on Monday. It's provisions are as follows:-
'GTo extend the present treaty for the further
term Of one year from the 18th of March next
on the condition that Canada shall repeal all the
duties and taxes on salt cars, locomotives, vehi-
implements, soap, starch, boots, shoes, leather,
boreeshoes and horseshoe nails, harness, tacks,
brads, watches music and musical instruments,
CLOCKS, tin and wooden ware muslin delaines
coarse shawls, satinets, and sheetings and shirt
ings worth less than one dollar a pound, and
raise the internal tax and duty on spirits to at
least seventy-five cents per gallon wine measure,
and discontinue her free ports on Lakes Huron
and Superior. The treaty tor extension shall
also provide that the United States may impose
any internal taxes on the productions of the pro-
vinces, which they levy upon their own products of
the same kind. The President is authorized to
appoint two commissioners or envoys TO nego-
tiate treaty with the United Kingdom and
the provinces, either Jointly or severally, to
regulate the commerce and navigation between
the respective territories and people OF said pro-
+ vinces and the United States on terms recipro-
cally beneficial. 1t is made the duty of the COM
mssioners to provide, ii possible, for the perma-
neDt security OF the fisheries of the United
States; to secure the free interchange OF the chief
products of art and manufacture, as well as the
products of the forest and agriculture and other
products between the provinces and the United
" SCateSt TO secure, tue ulbCOnJlnuanCe
8 of any free ports that may endanger revenue,
4 and the assimilation of duties on articles taxed
( by the two countries, and the removal of all
charges for lights and compulsory pilotage, and
E all discriminating tolls and duties, and for i'm
proved navigation between Lake Michigan and
the Mississippi, around the Falls OF Niagara, and
between Lake Ontario, Montreal and Lake
Champlain. All articles produced in any OF the
provinces, which under the provisions Of the
treaty for extension, if admitted shall be freely
admitted into Canada from the United States,
shall during the year of extension be freely ad-
amitted to the United States from Canada if pro-
&duced In that country"
STATISTICS OF CANADIAN COMMERCE.
From statistics published in the Toronto Globe
4 it appears that for the past twelve and a half
years the Canadians have imported of
Free goods. $l6S 9S5 264
DutlaDe. ''.'s'.s.s,, oolOoU Jzl
Total imports. $494 Bic, ,105
q Since 1861, inclusive, they have imported of
Free eoods. .&S4 49O l13
Dutiabe ul6o242i
For the eleven and a half years past the trade
with the United States foots up as follows:-Im-
ports, $229 169 979 exports S2O5, 81, ,l96. Trade
a with Great Britain during the same period has
been: Imports $209, ,63l, 1885, exports, Sl39, ,948,
since 1864, inclusive, has been thus dstrl-
buted:-,
With the United States S194 53l 175
With Great Britain Observation-Disclosures. 149 685 7O8
With all other countries ......"....... 40262 149
1OI' ''''''' 9oztJoISVos
A Imports from the United States since 1854, in
&elusiVe, classified az Free" and "Dutiabe, u
we're as follows:-"Free," $3.50, 1868, ,24S; "Duti-
hlp 72I o.