Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
BLAINE TO FRYE.
The Senator Receives ? Better
From the Secretary Of State,
In Which the Upper House OF
Congress Is Cautioned

Not TO Forget Reciprocity With Our
Southern Neighbors--He Criticises the
Tariff Bill Now Pending as Not C,,cu-
lated to Open New Markets for our
Agricultural Products.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-The follow
ing letter from Secretary Blaine has
been received by Senator Frye:
BAR HAEBoH Me, July II, 1890
DEAR Mr.. FRYE-I have just received
intelligence from the highest commercial
authority in Havana that American flour,
under the new duties imposed by Spain,
cannot reach the Cuban market under a
cost of $l1 As per barrel-counting the
shipping price in New York at 81 SO per
barrel. Spain holds the market for her
self, and is able to send European flour at
price which totally excludes the An eri-
can flour from the markets OF Cuba and
Porto Rico. Other articles of American
growth are likewise taxed by Spain to the
point OF prohibition This one-sided COM
merce will seriously injure the shipping
routes which are still in American hands
largely il not exclusively.
1t would certainly be very extraordi-
nary policy on the part of our government
just ut this time to open on" market with
out charge of duty to the enormous crops
of sugar raised in the two Spanish islands.
Cuba and Porto Rico furnish the United
States with nearly or quite one-half Of the
sugar which we consume, and we are far
larger consumers than any other nation
in the world. 70 give a free market to
this immense pEOduct of the Spanish plan
.a'loilS aC lhe iiioihehC SPAN Is excluding
une Iroet'c'a on Aiiierlcan farms irom ''er
ihHIhe'' Woulu ne poiicy az uhprece-
uente,i DIS IL "o"iu NC ui,"lSe' Oui trade
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