Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
MORE RECIPROCITY.

MORE RECIPROCITY.
The President Proci.ams Reciprocity With
Cuba and Porto RicO-Articles Affected
BY the Agreement.
WAsHINGT On, Aug. 1.-The Spanish
reciprocity agreement and the diplo-
matte correspondence in regard to it
were made public yesterday. The
articles on the free list are:
Products or manufacture of the United
States to be admitted into the Cuba and
Porto Rico free of duty:
First-Meats in brine, sailed smoked,
bacon. hams and meats preserved in cans.
in lard or by extraction Of air, j-rked beef
excepted
Third-TaIIow and other animal greases,
melted or crude, manufactured
Fourth-Fish and shell fish. live. fresh
dried, in brine. smoked, picked, oysters and
salmon in cans.
Fifth-Oats. barley, rye, buckwheat and
-four o these cereals
Sixth-Starch and other alimentary prod
ucts of corn, except corn meal.
Seventh-Cotton seed Oil and meal cake of
said seed for cattle.
Eighth-Hay, stra W for forage and bran.
Ninth-Fruts, fresh, dried and preserved,
except raisins.
Tenth-Vegetables and garden products,
fresh and dried.
Eleventh-Rosin or pine tar, pitch and
turpentne
Twelfth-woods of all kinds, in trunks or
logs, josts, rafters. planks. beams, boards,
round or cylindric masts all through cut,
planed and tongued and grooved, including
flooring
Thirteenth-woodsf for cooperage includ-
ing slaves. headings and wooden hoops.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES boxes, mounted or
uumOunted- except of cedar
Fifteenth-Wood<, ordinary, manufactured
into doors, frames, windows and shutters,
Wi inf an
houses. unmounted, without paint var
nish.
Sixteenth-wagons and carts for ordinary
roads and agriculture.
Seventeenth Sewing machines.
Observation-Disclosures, raw or unrefned.
according to the classification fixed in the
existing orders for the Importation of this
article in said islands
Nineteenth-Coal. mineral
The following articles are to be admitted
on payment of duties stated: Corn, 2o per
cent per 101 kiIogrammes; corn meal. rs
cents per 100 EilogEammes; wheat from jan
uary 1. 1892. 81 cents per 10) kiIogrammes.
and wheat -four. II per 100 kilogrammes;
butter and cheese, refined petroleum and
boots and shoes are to be admitted at a re-
duction of duty of Is per centum.
From and after July !, 1892, as a dehnitiye
arrangement, the following articles will be
admitted into Cuba and Porto Rico free of
duty: Marble, jasper. alabaster and other
stones, including cement, mineral waters, ice,
coal, pitch tar, tur ntine. raw petroleum,
bricks and tiles gold and silver coin, pig iron,
| iron pipes, beams, rafters, wrought iron, steel
and bars and rails of all kinds, wrought nails,
steel wire nails, screws, nuts and pipes; raw
cotton, cOttOnseed, oil and meal cakes; tallow,
books and pamphlets, wood of all kinds,
manures; agricultural implements and ma
chi1ery, materials and articles for public
works such as railroads. tramways and roads
| sailed and canned meats, terked beef eX-
cepted; butter, lard and cheese; fish of all,
kinds and canned oysters and salmon; oats
har nd TX x hes n
grains; starch, maizena, and other
products of corn. except corn
meal; fruits, except raisins vegetables, hay,
straw bran trees, plants, shrubs and garden
seed and tan bark; corn and orn meal is to
| pay a duty of % cents per 100 kilogrammes;
wheat 80 cents and wheat flour 81 per 100
kilogrammes; cars and other vehicles for
railroads or tramways, L per centum ad
valorem.
| The products of the manufacturers of the
| United States to be admitted at a deduc
tion of duty of 80 per cent. Glass and crys-
tai ware, plate and window glass. clay in
! tiles, cOlored tiles, glazed roof tiles, glazed
tiles and pipes, stOneware, fine earthen ware
| and porcelain; iron and steel axle trees
! springs and wheels for carriages, rivets and
washers; needles, pens. table and carv
! ing knives, razors, penknives. scissors. tin
plates and Sheets or manufactured: copper,
bronze, brass and nickel in lump or manu-
! featured; furniture of all kinds of wood or
| IN etal: brushes. vegetable hair broom corn,
! willow. straw and other similar articles;
rice -four, bread and crackers, sauRageS,
! stuffed meats, mustard sauces, pickles.
! Jams and jellies, rubber and gutta percha
| and anufactureS thereof and rice.
The following articles are to be admitted at
reduction of 25 cents per centum-retined
petroleum and benZine: manufactured cot
ton, spun or twisted. and cotton goods of all
kinds woven or knit and the same mixed
with other vegetable or animal fberS, and OF
which cotton is an equal or greater COM
ponent part, and clothing exclusively of
cotton, rope. cordage and Irvine; colors,
inks of all kinds. shoe backing
and varnishes; soap and per-
fumery, medicines and drugs; paper for
printing, for decorating rooms of wood, OF
straw for wrapping, or packing; leather and
skins, dressed, vanished or japanned of all
kinds, including sole leather betting,
boots and shoes, trunks. valises and other
similar articles i'll whole or in part of leather,
harness and saddlery of ali kinds; watches
and clocks and carriages.
It is understood, the president states
his proclamation, that flour which,
on its expectation from the United
States, has been favored with draw
backs, shall not share in the foregoing
reduction of duties. The provisional
arrangement set forth in the transitory
| schedule, the proclamation states, shall
come to an end on July 1, 1892 and on
that date to be substituted by the detini-
tive arrangement outlined in the procla-