The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-20
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State Elections This Year.

The state elections yet to be held
this year are as follows, at the dates
assigned respectively: Texas, on
the nth of August, will vote on five
proposed constitutional amendments,
referring to registration of voters,
the maintenance of the public
schools, the rate of interest, local
option, and the establishment of two
or more civil courts of appeal. Nov.
3 Iowa elects State officers Of Legis>
lature. On the same date Maryland
does the same and besides votes upon
six proposed amendments of a State
Constitution. Other States choosing
State officers and Legislature the sd
of November are Massachusetts (all)
Mississippi, three Railroad Commits
sioners and Legislature, Nebraska
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court and two Regents of the State
University; New Jersey, a part OF
the Legislature; New York, Govern
or, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary
of State, Controller, Treasurer, At
torney-General, Engineer and Sur
veyor the Legislature, ten Justices of
the Supreme Court, and Represen-
tative In Congress from the Tenth
District; Ohio, all officers and the
legislature and also votes upon the
proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition providing for uniform tax
alton; Pennsylvania, Treasurer and
Auditor General and votes on the
question of holding constitutional
convention and elects members to
the same; Virginia, half of its Legis-
lature.
The Spanish Reciprocity Treaty.
The Spanish reciprocity treaty
which takes effect September Ist,
will admit the following named ar
ticles to Cuba and Porto Rico free
of duty
Meats in brine, sailed or smoked ba-
con, hams and meats preserved in cans, in
lard or by extraction Of air, jerked beef
excepted lard, tallow and other animal
greases, melted or crude, unmanufactured;
fish and shell fish, live, fresh, dried, in
brine, smoked, picked oysters and sal
mon in cans oats, barley. rye, buck
wheat and -four of these cereals starch,
maisena and other alimentary products of
corn, except cornmeal cottonseed oil and
meal-cake Of said seed, for cattle; hay,
straw and bran fruits, fresh, dried and
preserved, except raisins; vegetables and
garden products, fresh and dried resin OF
s4o1, &,1rx NaIofir dc IF
all kinds, in trunks or logs, joists, rafters,
planks, beams, boards, round or cylindric
masts, all timbers cut, planned tongued
and grooved, including flooring; woods
for cooperage, including slaves, headings
and wooden hoops wooden boxes,
mounted or unmounted, except Of cedar !;
woods ordinary, manufactured into doors,
frames, windows and shutters, without
paint or varnish, and wooden houses, IN
mounted, without paint or varnish, wag-
ons and carts for ordinary roads and ag-
riculture; sewing-machines petroleum,
raw or unrefned. according to the CLASH
fication fixed in the existing orders for the
importation OF this article in said Islands;
COAL mineral, ice.
Products Of manufactures of the United
States to be admitted to Cuba and Porto
Rico at a reduction of duties stated
Corn or maize, 20 cents per 100 kilo-
grammes cornmeal, 20 cents per 100
kiIogrammes wheat, from Jan. l, 1892,
80 cents per 100 kilogrammes wheat
-four from JAM /, 1892, 81 per 100 kilos
Products of manufactures of the Unit
ed States to be admitted into Cuba and
Porto Rico at a reduction of % per cen
tum Butter and cheese; petroleum, re-
fined boots and shoes in whole or in
part Of leather or skins.
This treaty is to be superseded July l,
1892, by new one in which the free list
is enlarged and the duties reduced on
great number of articles Of American pro-
duction.