Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-01
MORE RECIPROCITY.
Cuba and Puerto Rico Will
Exchange Commodities
With This Country.
THE TREATY WITH SPAIN
Proclaimed 6y President Harrison,
to Take Effect September |.
ARTICLES on THE FREE LIST.
The Correspondence of Blaine With the
Spanish Minister.
THE TREATY WITH SPAIN
ARTICLES ON THE FREE LIST.
The Correspondence of Blaine With the
Spanish Minister.
AREouEST FOR LOWER TOBACCO DUTIES

correspondence IN regard TO 1t were maze
public today. The following is the Presi-
ident's proclamation:
WHEREAS. Pursuant to section ofSthe act
CT Congress approved October !, 1880,
entitled "Au act to reduce the revenues
and equalize duties on imports and
for other purposes" the Secretary OF
State OF the United States of America
communicated to the Government Of Spain
the action of the Congress of the United
States, with a view TO secure reciprocal
trade, in declaring the articles enumerated
in said section 8, to-wit, sugars, molasses,
coffee and hides, to be exempt from duty
upon their importation into the United
States Of America; and
Whereas, The Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain at wash
ington has communicated TO the secretary
OF State the fact that, in reciprocity and
COMPENSATION for the admission to the
United States of America. free of all duties,
of theartjcles enumerated in section of said
act the Government of Spain Will, by due
leEal enactment. and as provisional
measure, admit from and after september l,
1891 into all the established ports OF entry of
the Spanish islands Of Cuba and Puerto Rico
the articles or merchandise named IN the
following transitOrv schedule, on the terms
stated therein provided that the same be
the product or manufacture OF the United
OF said States.
TRANSTToRY SCHEDULE.
Products or manufacturls of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Puerto
Rico free OF duties:
Meats in brine, salted or smoked, bacon,
ham and meats preserved in cans in lard or
by extraction of air, jerked beef excepted.
Lard, tallow and other animal greases
melted OF crude, manufactured Fish and
ball @sg1, 1sr-a drin in hrin nkad
piCkled oysters and salmon in cans.
Oats barley, rice buckwheat and flour of
these cereals. Starch, maizena, and other
aiimentary products of corn, except corn
meal Cottonseed oil, and meal of said
seed for cattle Hay straw, for forage and
bran. Fruits, fresh, dried and preserved,
except raisrns. Vegetables and garden pro-
ducts, fresh and dried. Rosin of pine, tar,
pitch and tHrpentine.
Woods ofalGkinds. in trunks or logs, joists,
raftcrs, planks. beaUGs, boards round or
cylindric masts, planed and tongued and
grooved, including flooring. Woods for
cooperage including slaves, headings and
wooden hoops. Wooden boxes, mounted OF
unmOunted, except of cedar Woods, ordi-
nary, manufactured into doors, frames, win
dows and shutters without paint or varnish
and wooden houses, unmounted, without
paint or varnish.
Wagons and carts for ordinary roads and
agriculture. Sewing machines. Petroleum,
raw or unrefined, according to the classifica-
tion fixed in the existing order for the i'm
portation of this article in saH sands. Coal,
minerals. Ice.
THE DUTIABLE ARTICLES.
Products of manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Puerto
Rico on payment of the duties:
Corn or maize % cents per 100 kilogrammes.
Cornmeal 25 cents per 100 kilogrammes.
Wheat, from January l. 1892, 80 cents per 100
kilogrammes Wheat -four from January
!, lS92, 81 per 100 kilogrammea.
Products of manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Puerto
Rico at a reduction of 25 per centums
Butter and cheese. Petroleum, refined,
Boots or shoes in whole or in part of leather
or skins, And
Whereas, The Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain in Wash
ington has further communicated to the
Secretary of State that the Government of
Spain will in like manner and as deflnitive
arrangement admit, from and after July l,
lsa2, into all the established ports of entry of
the Spanish islands ofCuba and Puerto Rico,
the articles or merchandise named in the
following schedules, 4, B, c and D, on the
terms stated therein, provided that the same
be the product or manufacture of the United
States and proceed directly from the ports
OF said states:
SCHEDULE A.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Puerto
Rico free of duties:
artificial, in rough or in pieces, dressed,
squared and prepared for taking shape.
Other stones and earthly matters, including
cement employed in building. the arts and
industries. Waters, mineral or medicinal.
lee. Coal mineral. Rosin, tar, pitch, turpen-
tine, asphalt, schisC and bitumen.
Petroleum, raw or crude, in accordance
with the classification fixed in the tariff of
said islands. Clay, ordinary, in paving
tiles, large and small, bricks and roof tiles,
ungiazed, for the construction Of buildings,
ovens and other similar purposes. Gold
and silver coin.
Iron, cast in pigs, and old iron and steel.
Iron, cast in pipes, beams, rafters and simf-
lar sTUicIes, for the construction OF build
iugs and in ordinary manufactures. (See
TcpersCry.) Iron, wrought, and steel, in
bars, rails and bars of all kinds, plates,
beams rafters ana other similar articles for
construction of buildings. Iron, wrought.
and steel, in wire, nails, screws. nuts and
pipes Iron. wrought, and steel in ordinary
manufacturer sS,d wiVH cloth, unmanufact-
urcd. (SeG repersnTy.)
Cotton. raw, with or without seed. Cot
tonseed Gil and meal cake of same for cattle.
IaliCw and all other animal greases melted
Or Grade manufactured.
BOOKS AND WOODS
Books and pamphlets, printed, bound and
unbound. Woods OF all kinds, in trunks or
logs, joists, rafters, planks beams, boards
and round or cylindric masts, although cut,
pianed, tongued and grOoved, including floor |
ing. Wooden cooperage. including slaves.
headings and wooden hoops. Wooden boxes, |
noun ted or unmouRteG, except of cedar |
Woods, ordinary, manufactured into doors
frames, windows ana shutters without paint |
or vaInish, and wooden houses unmounted
without paint or Narnish. Woods, ordinary,
manufactured into all kinds of articles
turned or unturned, painted or vanished,
except furniture (see repertory).
Msnures natural or artificial. Imple-
arts ana mechanical trades. Machines and
apparatus agricultural, motive, industrial
and scientific, Of all classes ana materials,
and loose pieces for the same, including
wagons, carts and handcarts, for ordinary
roads and agriculture.
FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
Material and articles for public works
such as railroads. tramway roads, canals for
irrigation and navigation, use of water ports, |
and civil construction of general
utility. when introduced by authorization of
the Government, or if free, admission is OBJ |
tanned in accordance with local laws
Material of all classes for the construc- |
tion. repair i'll whole or in part of vessels, !
subject TO specific regulations to avoid abuse |
in the importation.
Meats in brine, salted and smoked, in |
Cluding bacon. hams and meats preserved in |
cans IN lard or by extraction of air, ierked |
beef excepted. Lard and butter. Cheese. /
Fish, shell fish live, fresh, dried, in brine, |
saicod smoked and picked; oysters and |
saimOn in cans.
Oats, barley, rye and buckwheat, and -four |
% these cereals. Starch, maizena,, and other |
ulin;entary products CT corn, except corn |
lncal. Fruits. fresh, dried and preserved, |
except Taisins- Vegetables and garden |
produce, fresh and dried. Hay straw for |
forage and bran. Trees, plants, shrubs and /
gailcl. seeds. Tan bark.
SCHEDULE B.
Products Of manufacturers of the United |