Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-02
|%SPANISH.AMERlCAN TREATY.
It Has Been Ascertained That the Terms
are More Favorable Than Were
Anticipated.
A Number OF Articles of the Product OF
the Provinces of Cuba and Porto
Rico to be Admitted Free
of Duty.
MORE FAVORABLE THAN EXPECTED.

MORE FAVORABLE THAN =
New YORK, December 9.-The Times
| yesterday morning published a copy of the
treaty with Spain, which it obtained in
| Madrid. and its terms seem more favorable
to this country than was supposed at Sun
days meeting of the cigarmakers. The fol-
lowing are the principal articles of products
of both countries which will be affected:
| Articles, the product of the provinces Of
! Cuba and Porto Rico, to be admitted into
| the United States on the following condi-
tons. Free from duty: Horses, cocoa,
Office, fish, fresh fruits, cotton, hemp, flax,
| hides, skins undressed, a~naline, and min.
eral dyes, palm oils, sugars not above No.
| 16 Dutch standard in color, loayes of the
| crystalized syrup of the sugar cane, melada
molasses, seeds, woods, cast iron, eggs,
honey, wax. sponges, bones, 'guano, manure,
| coca, esparto, horse-hair, rushes, osiers,
straw, coins of gold and silver. Subject to
duty: Cigars, cigarettes, begeiros, $1.25
per pound, 1917 per cent. ad valorem, to-
hacco leaves requiring more than 100 to the
| mound, if having stems 81 cents per pound,
without stems SO cent? other tobacco In
leaves having stems 1 cents per pound,
tobacco manufactured of every kind.
Tobacco without stems, 90 cents per
pound; snuff, powdered tobacco, 25 cents
| per pound; tobacco not manufactured, Is
per cent. ad valorem.
Articles, the product of the United States,
which shall be admitted into Cuba exempt
from duty: Beer, fresh meats, bacon,
fruits, fish, shell fish, grain and other cere.
ais excepting rice wheat, lard, swine, beef,
cheese, eggs and breed fowls of all kinds,
stave knees, timber pipes, boxes of wood,
cattle, sheep and goats, hogs, stones and
earths employed in construction and in the
arts and industries, clay tiles, bricks and
tiles; unglazed hides and undressed skins,
minerals or metals, coins of silver and gold,
useful tools. agricultural implements, agri-
cultural apparatus, industrial and scientific
motors of classes and materials, separate
rarts of the same; raw cotton, hemp. flax,
jute and other raw vegetable 1ibres,
wool, hogs hair, raw horse
hair, asphalt, refined bituminous tar, pitch
and resin, petroleum, raw or crude; mineral
and vegetable Goals, mineral waters, trees,
plants, vine shoots and sets, natural and
artificial marbles, jasper, alabaster in
blocks and sheets, rough OF prepared. Other
stones and earths employed in construction
of minerals. and metals, mineral waters, ice,
cast iron in rigs, and all forms of waste
steel and iron, cast iron in tubes, the same
manufactured malleable iron and steel in
bars and all classes of wire in copper and
iron nails, screws, rivets, wrought iron
tubes, w~ire-gauge manufactured. Art
icles produced and manufactured in the
United States to be admitted into the Island
Of Cuba on the following conditions:
Dutiable wheat, SO cents per 100 kilos;
wheat flour, So per common barrel; starch,
So; worked wood, IS; fine worked
and carved wood, $40; wood in objects
gilded with various ornaments, $50: travel
ing carriages, steel and iron for the
same, 50; other vehicles, and wood and
iron for tile same, 81; passenger cars, 81:
marbles, jaspers, alabaster, in all classes
and sizes, 30 cents; the same worked, S1.SO;
common hollowware, Si.50; glass, iinita.
ton OF crystal, IS; plate glass, 81. 70; glass
or crystal silvered and crystals for watches
and spy glasses, $40; mosaic tiles, GO cents;
art tiles OF fine clay, So; porcelain, So; calf
skins glazed, 20 cents: other skins tanned
for soles, 10 cents; ready-nlade shoe leather,
&1.25; articles tor saddlery, 40 cents; print.
ing paper, white or colored, S1.S0; writing
paper and photographic and engraving paper
and bristol board, S4;' the same in sheets
for letters, cigarette paper. ruled or UNI
ruled, $3.50; for printed paper or litho-
graphed in Spanish periodicals and pam.
phlets, $40; for the same in foreign
tongues. rs cents; photographs, maps, play.
ing cards, 25 cents. All the benefits of this
treaty relate only to the merchandise trans.
ported in vessels owned and Differed en-
tirelv by citizens Of the United States and
Spain.