The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01
TREATY WITH SPAIN.
Reciprocity With The United
States.
Exemption From Duty Of The Products Of
Spanish America.
List Of Articles Admitted Free Into Cuban
PortS-What Products huSt
Pay Duty.
gpecial to THE MoRNINe CALL.


ciprOcity treaty and the diplomatic cor
respondence pertaining thereto were made
public to-day, the President Issuing proc
lamation announcing the full text OF the
treaty. 1t was made pursuant to the last
tariff act, with view to securing reciprocal
trade Dy reason of the exemption from duty
of sugar, molasses, coffee and 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 ''transity"
schedule, will be admitted into Cuba and
Porto Rico free after September 1St next:
Meats, salt and canned Gerked beef ex-
cepted); lard, tallow; fresh, dried and
smoked fish; canned oysters and salmon;
oats, barley, rye, buckwheat and the -four
OF these grains; starch, maizena, and other
alimentary products of corn excepting corn
meaD; cotton-seed oil and meal cake of
said seed for cattle; hay, straw and bran;
fresh, dried and preserved fruits Except
raisiIs); vegetables, resin, turpentine, wood
of all kinds, wagons, sewing machines. raw
petroleum, coal and ice.
ADMITTED FREE OF DUTY.
The following articles will be admitted
Tree: Marble. jasrer, alabaster. and other
stones. including cement; mineral waters,
ice; coal. pitch, tar, resin, turpentine, as
phaltum, raw petroleum; bricks and tiles;
gold and silver coin; pig-iron, iron pipes :;
beams. Tafters, wrought-lron, steel wire,
nails, screws, nuts and pipes; raw cotton,
cotton-seed oil and meal cake; tallow and
other animal greases; books and pamphlets.
wood OF all kinds; manures; agricultural
implements, machinery; materials and arti-
cles for public works, such as railroads,
tTamways and reads; Salted and canned
meats GeIked beef exC epted); butter, lard !;
cheese; fish Of all kinds, and canned oysters
and salmon; oats, barley, rye, buckwheat
and flour of these grains; staren. maizena,
cept cornmeal; fruits, except ralslns; yege-
tables, hay, straw and bran; trees, plants,
shrubs and garden seeds; tan bark.
REDUCTION OF 80 PER CENT.
The following will be admitted atreduc-
tion of 80 per cent: Marble, jasper, ala
baster of all kinds; g. Ass and crystal ware
plate and window glass and the same
ouicksilvered, etc.; clay in tiles, covered
tiles roof tiles, glazed tiles and pipes; stone
ware, line earthenware and porcelain iron
and steel axles, tires, springs aud wheels
| for carriages, riyetS and iron wrought and
oltCi III ullc NOl tuuSt
! with coating Of porcelain or part of other
metaD; needles, pins, knives, raZ0rs, SciS-
eors. tin plate in sheets or manufactured,
| all other common metals and alloys OF same
| furniture of all kinds of wood or metal
| brushes, vegetable hair, broom corn, will
| low, straw and other similar articles pastes
| for soup, rice, flour, bread and crackers and
| alimentary iarnaS not comprised in other
| schedules; sausages, stuffed meats, mustard,
| sauces, pickles, jams ard jellies; rubber,
and ha mo faf flara
| rice, hulled or unhulied.
REDUCTION OF % PER CENT.
The following will be admitted at re-
| duction CT duty OF 25 per cent: Petroleum,
| refined, and benzine; manufactured cotton,
| spun or twisted, and cotton goods of al
Kinds, woven or KIT. and the same mixed
| with other vegetable or animal fibers in
| which cotton Is al equal or greater COM
| p0nent part, and clothing exclusively of
| cotton; rope, cordage and twine of all
| kinds; shoe-blacking and varnishes; soap,
| perfumery, medicine and drugs; stearine
| and tailow manufactured in candles; paper
| for printing, for decorating rooms, or wood
or straw for wrapping and packing, bags
ana boxes OF the same. sand-paper and
| paste-board; leather and skins, dressed,
vanished or japanned, of all kinds including
| sole-leather or betting, boots and shoes,
| trunks, yaliSeS and other similar articles in
| whole or part of leather; harness and sad
Glery; watches and clocks. carriages.
OTHER DUTIABLE ARTICLES.
The following will be admitted on the
| payment of the duties stated: Corn or
maize, % cents per hundred kilogra ms; corn
meal, % cents; wheat, 80 cents; wheat flour,
| 81, from January l, 1892; carriages, cars
| and other vehicles for railroads, butter and
cheese, refined petroleum and boots and
shoes will be admitted at reduction OF %
per cent from and after July /, 1892. as the
result of definite arrangement. Where
the authorization for free admission is not
obtained per cent ad valorem. 1t is un-
derstood that flour which on its expectation
from the United States has been favored
with drawbacks shall not share in the fore
| going reduction of duty.
THE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS.
The provisional arrangement as set forth
| in the transity schedule shall come to an
| end July l, 1892 and be substituted by a
detntive arrangement outlined above. The
correspondence preceding the promulgation
of the treaty was begun by Secretary Blaine
| who, January 81, last, transmitted copy of
the tariff law to Senor Guanes, the Spanish
Minister. requesting that the attention of
his Government be called to 1t, with view
to the adjustment of commercial relations
between the two countries on permanent
basis of reciprocity, profitable alike to both.
In the course Of further correspondence the
Spanish Government submitted to the con-
sideration of the United States Govern
mcnt the serious injuries occasioned to
the tobacco production Of Cuba and Porto
Rico in consequence of the increase of
duties, and expressed the hope that the
President will recommend to Congress q
reduction Of the duty on the tobacco OF the
said islands. The correspondence closed
with a letter from Secretary Blaine, under
date OF June 10Th, last, in which he states
that the suggestion Will have the careful