The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-01
SPANISH RECIPROCITY TREATY.
Synopsis of the Measure and List of
Free and Dufiahla lrfi


WASHINGTON CITY, July 31.-The Spanish re-
ciproeity treaty and the diplomatic correspond
ence pertaining thereto was made public today,
the president issuing a proclamation announc
ing the full text of the treaty. 1t was made
pursuant to the last tariff act, with view to
securing reciprocal trade by reason of tho ex-
emption from duty of sugar, molasses, coffee
aud beef hides upon their importation into the
United States. Under the terms of the treaty
the following articles manufactured in the
United States, and included in what is termed
the ''trsnsitory schedule will be admitted into
Cuba and Porto Rico free after September l.
Meats, salt and canned, jerked beef excepted:
lard, tallow; fresh, dried and smoked fish;
canned oysters and salmon, oats, barley, rye,
buekwheat and flour made of those grains;
starch, maize and other alimentary products of
corn, excepting corn meal, cotton seed oil and
meal cake of said seed for cattle; hay, straw and
bran; fresh, dried and preserved fruits, except
ralslns; vegetables, rosIn, turpentlne, wood of
all kinds, wagons, sewing machines, raw petro-
leum, coal ana ice.
The following articles will be admitted on
payment of duties as stated:
Corn, 25 cents per 100 Kilograms: corn meal, 25
cents; wheat, from January l, 1892, 30 cents;
wheat flour, from same time, 81. Butter and
cheese, refined petroleum and boots aud shoes
will be admitted at reduction of 25 per cent.
from and after July l, 1892.
The following will be admitted ut reduction
OF 50 per cent:
Marble, jasper, alabaster of all kinds. glass
and crystal, plate and window glass and the
same silvered, quicksilyered, etc. clay in YES
sells, covered tiles, roof tiles, glazed tiles and
pipes; stoneware: fine eatthenware ana porce
lain; iron and steel axles; tires, springs and
wheels for carriages; riyets and washers iron,
wrought, aad steel in fine manufactures or
those polished with coating OF porcelain or parts
OF other metals: needles, pins; knives; razors:
scissors: tin plete in sheets or manufactured;
all other common metals and alloys of the same;
ftar afAfo al
of vegetable, hair broom corn, willow, straw aud
other similar materials ;pastes soups; ;rice -four
bread and crackers, ana allmentary iarlnas not
comprised in the other schedule; sausage;
stuffed meats mustard, sauces. pickles, jams
and jellies; rubber, gutta percha ana the manu-
factures thereof; rice, hulied or unhulled.
The following will be admitted at a reduction
of duty OF 25 per cent: Petroleum, refined, and
benZine; manufactured cotton, spun or twisted,
and cotton goods OF all KINDS, woven or Knit,
and the same mixed with other vegetable or ami
component part, and clothing exclusively man
uiaetured OF cotton; rope, cordage ana twine
of all kind; shoe baeking and varnishes;
soap; perfumery; medicines and drugs; stearine
and taiiow manufactured into candles; paper,
printed for decorating rooms, or of wood or
straw for wrapping and packing, and bags, and
boxes of the same; sand paper aud pasteboard;
leather and skins; dressed, FURNISHED or japan
ned of all kinds. including sole leather or belt
ing; boots and shoes, trunks, valises and other
similar articles, in whole or In part Of leather,
harness and saddlery; watches and clocks, and
carriages.
1t is understood that -four which on its ex-
portstion from the United States has been IA
vored with draw backs, shall not share in the
foregoing reduction Of duty. The temporary
arrangements set forth in the trsnsitory
schedule shall extend till July l, 1891, and shall
be substituted by definite arrangements, as out
lined above, The correspondence preceding the
PRONUNCIATION OF the treaty was begun by secre-
iary Blaine VINO, on January last, transmitted
a copy of the tariff law 10 Senor Guanes, the
Spanish minister, requesting that the attention
OF his government be called 10 It, with view 10
the adjustment of commercial relations between
the two countries on permanent basis OF
reciprocity profitable alike 10 both. In the
course of further correspondence the spanish
government submitted, for the consideration OF
the United states government, statement Of
the serious injuries ocessionsd to the tobacco
interests OF Cuba and Porto Rico in consequence
OF the increase OF the duties, and cherished the
hops that the president would recommend 70
congress reduction OF the duty on the tobacco
of said islands The correspondence closed
with letter from Secretary Blaine, under the
ds'a OF June Is last, in which he states that the
suggestions made by the Spanish government
will have the careful consideration Of the presi-
dent and that 1t shall be the subject OF sseparste
act