Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-20
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Recommendations Of tbs President on
Customs DutisS.
LIVELY SCENES IN THE HOUSE.
The Advocates of Free Coinage
Garry Their Point-Commit-
tee Repor,s-Etc.
lsrscAI DurArCHrs TO THE nEooRD-us1os.I
CUSTOMS UNION.

An Important Recommendation Made by
the President to Congress.
WASHINGTON, June 19th.-The President
has transmitted to Congress letter from
Blaine upon the subject of customs union
and recommendations in favor thereof, by
the Pan american Conference.
The President, in transmitting the COM
municaiion says: "It has been so often
and persistently stated that our tariff laws
offered an insurrnountable barrier to the
large exchange of products with the Latin
American nations. that deem it proper to
call especial attention to the fact that more
than 81 per cent. of the products of those
nations sent to our shores are now admit
ted free. If sugar is placed upon the free
list, practically every impor, article ex-
ported from those States will be given I'M
taxed access to our markets except WOOL
THE real difficulty in the way of uego-
tiating profitable reciprocity treaties is that
we have given freely so much that would
have had value in mutual concessions
which such treaties imply. l cannot
doubt, however, that the present advan-
tages which the products of these near and
friendly States enjoy in our markets,
though they are not by law exclusive, will,
with other considerations, favorably dis
pose them to adopt such measures, by
treaty or otherwise, as will tend to equalize
and greatly enlarge our mutual exchanges.
1T will certainly be time enough for us
to consider whether we much cheaper the
cost of production by cheapening labor in
order to gain access to the South American
markets, when we have fairly tried the
effect of an established and reliable steam
communication and convenient methods
of money exchanges. There can be doubt,
l think, that with these facilities well es-
tablished, and with rebate of duties upon
imported raw materials used in the manu-
facture of goods for export, our merchants
will be able to compete in the ports of the
Latin American nations with those of any
other country. If. after Congress shall
have acted upon the pending tariff legisla-
ton, it shall appear that under the general
treaty-maklng power, or under any special
powers given by law, our trade with the
States represented in the conference can be
enlarged, upon basis of material advant-
age, it will be promptly done"
Secretary Blaine to-day received teie-
gram from the Chairman of the National
Millers' Convention at Minneapolis, saying
that millers were greatly agitated over the
report of an additional duty of so cents per
barrel to be imposed on American flour in
Cuba, thus prohibiting the American -four
trade, and asking for information.
Secretary Blaine replied that he had re-
ceived no official advice, but if correct, the
advance would make the duty SIS 81 per
barrel, and it was evidently intended by
Spain to be prohibitory. He added: sit
has been constantly said here for the last
six months that the Western farmers de-
mapd the unconditional repeal of the
sugar duty. 1t is within the power of the
Western farmers, by encouraging system
OF reciprocity, to secure in exchange for
the repeal of this duty the free admission
OF their breadstuffs and provisions into the
markets of forty millions of people, in
GLIDING Cuba. In my opinion this is the
most profitable policy for the Western
farmer