, 1891-08-01
The Spanish Treaty.

spondence pertaining thereto we're made
public today, the president issuing a pro-
clamation announcing the full text of the
treaty. 1t was made pursuant to the last
tariff act with a view to securing recipro-
cal trade by reason of the exemption from
upon their importation into the United
States. Under the terms OF the treaty
the following articles, manufactured in the
| nited States and included in what is
termed a transitory schedule, will be ad-
mitted into Cuba and Porto Rico free
after Sept. l next: Meats. salt and
canned. jerked beefexcepted; lard. tallow.
fresh, dried and smoked fish, canned
oysters and salmon, oats, barley, rye,
b~uckwheat. and the flour of these grains.
starch, maize and other alimentary pro-
ducts of corn, excepting cornmeal. cotton
seed oil, and the meal cake of said seed
for cattle. hay, straw. and bran, fresh.
dried and preserved fruits, except %raisins.
vegetables, resin, turpentine, wood OF all
kinds, wagons, sewing machines, raw
petroleum, Goa and ice.
The following articles will be admitted
on the payment of the duties stated:
Corn, twenty-five cents per 100 Kilograms;
corpmeal twenty-five, wheat, from Ian. |,
1892, thirty; wheat -four, from the same
time, 81. Butter and cheese, refined pc
troleum and boots and shoes will be ad-
mitted at a reduction of 25 per cent from
and after July |, 1892.
The following articles will be admitted
free: Marble, jasper, alabaster and other
stones. including cement; mineral walers,
Ice, coal. pitch tar. resin. turpentino.
asphalt, raw petroleum, bricks and tiles,
gold and silver, coin, pig iron, iron pipes,
beams. %rsfters. wrought iron, steel wire
nails, screws, nuts and pipes, raw cotton.
cotton seed oil. and meal cake,
tallow and other animal greases.
books and pamphlets, woods of
all kinds, manures, agricultural
implements and machinery, materials and
articles for public works, such as railroads,
tramways and roads; salted and canned
meats, jerked beef excepted; butter, lard,
cheese; fish OF all kinds. and canned
oysters and salmon; oats, barley, rye.
buckwheat. and the -four of these grains;
starch. maizes and other %alimentary pro-
ducts of corn, except oatmeal; fruits. ex-
cept %rasins; vegetables, hay straw and
bran; trees, plants, shrubs and garden
seeds and tan bark.
The following will be admitted on the
payment of the duties stated: Corn or
maize. 81. 25 per 100 Kilograms; cornmeal,
twenty-five cents; wheat, thirty; wheat
-four. 81; carriages, cas- and other VEHICLES
for RAILROADS, etc where authorization
for free admission is not obtained, | per
cent ad valorem.
The following will be admitted at a re-
duction of so per cent: Marble, jasper,
alabaster of all kIlds. glass and crystal
ware, plate and window glass. and the
same silvcred, quicksilvered, etc. clay in
tiles. covered tiles. roof tiles, glazed tiles.
And pipes, stoneware and fine earthen-
ware aud porcelain, IRON and steel axles,
tires. springs, and wheels for carriages,
rivets and washers; iron, wrought. and
steel in hue manufactures, or those
polished with a coating of porcelain or
part OF o'her metal; needles, pins, knives,
razors, tin ~platein sheets or manufactured;
all other common metals and alloys Of
same; furniture of all kinds of wood or
metal; brushes. vegetable. hair, broom
corn. willow, straw and other similar
articles; pastes for soup, rice -four, bread
and crackers, and a%limentary ~farinss not
comprised in other schedules; sausages,
stuffed meats, mustard, sauces, pickles.
jams and %jellies; rubber, guttapercha. and
manufactures thereof; rice hulled or
uuhulled.
The following will be admitted at a re.
duction of duty OF 25 per cent; petroleum,
refined, and b%enzine; manufactured cot.
ton, pun or twisted, and cotton goods of
all kinds, woven or knit, and the same
mixed with other vegetable or animal
fbres, in which cotton is an equal or a
axantar aa-, tnAnanN N ~ -ll--
clusively OF cotton; rope, cordage, and
Irvine OF all kinds; shoe backing and var
nishes; soap, perfumery, medicine and
drugs; ~stearine and tallow manufactured
in candles; paper for printing, for decor.
ating rooms, of wood or straw for wrap
ping and packing, bags and boxes OF
same. sand-paper and pasteboard; leather
and skins, dressed, vanished or japanned
Of all kinds, including sole leather or belt
ing, boots and shoes, trunks, v~alises, and
other similar articles In whole or part OF
leather; harness and sa6dlery; watches
and clocks. and carriages. 1t is under
stood that -four which, on its expectation
from the United States, has been favored
with drawbacks, shall not share in the
foregoing reduction OF duty.
The provisional arrangement, as set
forth in the transitory schedule, shall
come to an end July l, 1892, and be sub
stituted by the definite arrangement out
lined above. The correspondence pre-
cediLg the PRONUNCIATION of the treaty
was begun BY Secretary Blaine, who, on
Jan. 3, last, transmitted a copy of the
tariff law to Senior Guanes, Spanish
prime minister, requesting that the at
~tention of his government be called to 1t
with "a view to the adjustment OF
the commercial relations between the two
countries on a permanent basis of reci-
procity profitable alike to both. In the
course of further correspondence, the
Spanish government submits to the
consideration OF the United States gov
the serious injuries o~ccasioned
to the tnbacco production of Cuba and
Porto Rico in consequence OF an increase
of duties and cherishes the hope that
the president will recommend to congress
a reduction Of the duty on the tobacco OF
said islands.
The correspondence closed with a letter
from Secretary Blaine, under date of
June l6. last, in which he states the sug-
g%estion will have the careful consideration
Of the president and that it shall be the
subject oil a separate note.