Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-12

duty on which is reduced from SO Is per 100
Kilogrammes to so cents, and flour, the duty on
which is reduced from 81 20 to 50 so and 81 65
per barrel. Corn meal AMI other flOurs are
free. as also are cattle, hogs and other live
animals, cotton and cotton seed, flax wool
and various other agricultural products.
VALUE OF THE CONCESSIONS.
The significance and nature of the conces-
sIOns are shown by the fact that under the
present tariff of the Spanish West Indies these
products are burdened with such heavy du
ties that only limited demand can be ere
ated, while with the free market provided by
the treaty consumption must be largely in
creased. The concessions to American manu-
1actured goods are not less important. On
the free list of schedules will be found almost all
kinds of materials for building purposes. such
as lumber of all kinds, iron articles, stone,
stating. bricks and similar materials; also q
long list of manufactures of wood as cOOper-
age, Wo0denware, broOms, brushes, spokes
ana bent wood, common furniture, etc,
all manufactures of cast iron and steel, except
me or nigh priced articles, undresSed leather
and stains, long and important list of all
kinds of implements, utensils and tools for
agriculture, the arts and trades. machines
ana apparatus, agricultural, motive, indus
trial and scientific of all classes, ana materials
and loose pieces of the same, materials and
articles for railways, tramWays, canals and
other works OF public utility, materials of all
kinds Tor shlpbulldlng, and other classes of
manufactured articles, in the production of
which this country eXcels.
FRELINGHUYSEN'S FAVORABLE VIEWS.
After analyzing the schedules of the tariffs
which remain and which are reduced. the
secretary proceeds to say: 81 cannot doubt
tnat the convention Will work immediate
benefit to our citizens, our trade and our YES
sells. The loss of revenue which the reduc-
ton of the sugar and tobacco duties involves,
harmOnlZes with the policy which placed
coffee and other like products on the free list
Unlike that measure. however. the present
scheme utilizes this favor to our population
Dy employing 1t in the purchase of
other favors. With an enlarged de-
mand in Cuba and Porto Rico
for articles which we are by this arrange
ment enabled to supply under favorable con-
dltlons. commercial movement toward
the Antilles from our shores must spring uD,
which Will tend to equalize, if indeed it do
not speedily entirely equalize, the present
inequality or trade between them. Our yes
sells must necessarily share largely in this
augmented commerce. Under an act of the
Cortes the Spanish Coz ernment is empowered
10 ratlfy the convention and to put il into
operation m without further Legislative
acton. The completion OF the compact
by the ratification of the convention,
ana by the passage of statutes needfu to carry
II INTO effect on our part rests wholly with the
Congress OF the United States.
DELAY DEPRECATED.
In order that commerce may not suffer in
the meantime through stagnatiOn while
awaiting the results of their deliberations. it
is most desirable that no delay should
ensue In giving effect to the con-
Venton, which, taken in conjunction
with like engagements with other countries
OF the American system. must exert an imme-
dlate and beneficial influence on the inter-
course between the United States and neigh
boring communities, and give practical effect
to the general desire to knit more closely to-
gether the nations of this continent. while at
the same time aflording market for our sur
plus products.
THE TIMES" ARTICLE VERY INACCU-
RATE.
A careful comparison of the schedules in
the llst OF articles admitted TO Cuba and Porto
Rlco from the United States upon favorable
terms under the Spanish reciprocity treaty as
publlshed In the Congressional Record to- day,
with the schedules published in the New
ork Times on Tuesday, shows that the latter
are so Inaccurate that they are in many par
tculars almost useless to any one who desires
to now the real provisions of the treaty. 1t
WIli be necessary for any one who wants to
know al about il to get the Congressional
record OF this morning, so far as the sched-
uies are concerned. The Times bough. simply
one OF the first drafts Of the treaty. The con-
clual0ns embodied in the last draft were in