Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-09

THE SPANISH TREATY.
Minister Foster Comes Home and Urges
its Ratification.

Its kanncatIOn.
New YORK. Dec. g.
Hon. J. W Foster. United States minister
to Spain, arrived in the steamer Oregon yes
terday. He left his post Nov. 25th to bring
| here personally the new commercial treaty,
which he has just effected with the Spanish
government. Il think" said Minister Fos-
| ter, THAT il is OF the utmost importance that
We shall ratify the treaty. The great question
/ with the United States now is the question of
/ improving our foreign markets and anything
| that can be done in the direction of providing
new markets for products is of incalcuable
benefit. This treaty will open up TO our
| agriculturists and to our manufacturers a
very considerable market and one of which
we all will have a monopoly TO the exclusion
| OF all European nations. No one can COM
pete with the United States. At this time,
| too, when our industries are suffering all the
evils of over production and are so much
! depressed, it is most oppotHne that we should
secure this opening for our products. In
addition to this direct benefit il will lead to
our commercial conquest of South America,
| for il this treaty is ratified, other countries
south of the United States will be obliged,
| for their own protection, to make treaties of
some kind with the United States"
The sugar side of the question was, of
course, most important, as there probably
would be a strong opposition from the Louis
lana planters, but Minister Foster thought it
would not have much weight. With tobacco
| he expected little or no opposition. The duty
| on our -four would be reduced about So a
barrel and there could be no competition with
us, even at this rate
sit is a question of the interests of the
whole country" said Foster, land must be
received in that light.
The full text of the treaty is printed in the
Times today. 1t begins
His majesty, King of Spain, and the United
States of America, animated by common
desire to st engthen and perpetuate the
| friendly relations which happily exist be-
tween the Spanish nation and the United
States, and recognizing particularly that the
Spanish isles and Provinces of Cuba and
Porto Rico, being in close proximity to the
coast of the United States, frequent and
constant commercial relations exist between
the two countries, to the advantage of their
inhabitants and both powers considering also
that community and the harmony of their
interests demands that these same relations
be Encouraged and fostered to the greater
extension and protection of commerce, and
its prosperity both in the provinces and the
islands mentioned and in the United States
| OI America, we nave ueClutu upOu tuC huop-
ton of commerce that shall attain this spec
ial object. Under the treaty the following
named articles, products of the provinces of
Cuba and Porto Rico, are to be admitted into
the United States free of duty Horses cocoa,
coffee, fresh fish, fruits, cotton, hemp, flax,
hides, undressed skins. apiine and mineral
waters, trees, plants, vine shoots and seeds,
natural and artificial manures, marble, jasper,
alabaster in blocks and sheets, rough or pre-
pared. other stones and earths employed in
construction mineral and metals, mineral
waters, ice, cast iron in pigs and all forms of
waste steel and iron, cast iron in tubes, the
same manufactured, malleable iron and steel
i in bars, and all kinds of wire in copper, iron
nails, screws, rivets, wrought iron tubes,
wire gauze, unmasked substances. discs,
palm oil, sugars not above No. l6 stand
ard in color, leaves of crystalized syrup, color
sugar can melado, molasses, seeds, woods,
cast iron eggs honey wax, sponges, bones,
! guano, manure, cocoa. At Porto. horse hair
rushes, osiers, straw, coins of gold and sill
yer. Subject to duty, cigars, cigarettes, ,begue-
ras 81 25 per pound, IL IL per cent ad va
lorum, Tobacco leaves requiring more than
! 100 to a pound, if having stems 81 cents per
pound without stems 80 cents, other tobacco
in leaves havinglstems IL l2 cents per pound,
tobacco without stems, 20 cents per pound;
snuff powdered tobacco % cents per pound.
Tobacco not manufactured, 10 cents ad va
lorem.
The following named articles, products of
the United States. are to be admitted into
Cuba, exempt from duty beer, fresh meats,
bacon, fruits, fish, shell fish, grain and other
cereals excepting rice -four of cereals, other
than rice, lard. swine, beef, cheese, eggs and
hard woods of all kinds, seves, knees of tim
Der, pipes, boxes of wood, cattle, sheep and
goats. hogs, stones and earth employed in
construction and in the arts and industries,
clay tiles bricks and tiles unglazed. hides and
undre ssed skins, minerals or metals, coins of
silver and gold, useful tools, agricultural I'M
plements, agricultural apparatus, industrial
and scientific motions of classes and materi-
| ais, and parts of the same, raw cotton, hemp.
fax, jute and all other raw vegetable fbres,
woods, hogs hair. raw horse hair asphalt,
refined bitumen. tar, pitch and resin, petro-
leum raw or crude, mineral and vegetable
Goals, mineral used in chemical industries.
drugs simples, seeds of cotton and all olea-
ginous products of the same except oils. tan
ming liquids, grease and all other oily animal
substances, unmanufactured cotton and its
manufactured FORMS raw cotton, with or
without seeds, other vegetable fbres and their
manufactured forms, hemp, fax, jute and
other raw vegetable fbres, raw materials,
hairs, horse hair and their manufactures.
| printed papers or Autographs, periodicals.
pamphlets, books, music paper, woods of all
classes in trunk and logs, planks. rounds
sawed. unplaned wood, slaves, wooden hoops
pipes, boxes of wood. ordinary or unfinished
doors. blinds unpainted, common wood work
ed in any fashion or object. cattle, asses,
mules, horses, swine, sheep, goats, hides un-
! dressed skins, natural and artificial manures,
utensils, agricultural implements. machines
and apparatus, materials for public works,
materials of all classes for construction or
repairs of ships, birds. terrestrial and aquatic
| fresh, sslted and smoked meats, except jerk
ed beef, bacon, hams, lsrds. cows. live sea
| fsh, fish dry, salted and picked, rice, shelled
or unshelled and other cereals, -four or other
cereal axcept rice, fresh, dried or preserved
fruits, seeds, fresh and dried vegetables. of
all kinds, cheese, eggs, hay and straw forage,
trees, plants, vine shoots, garden seeds,
sugar and bags.
CHICAGO FRAUDS.