The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-07
MORE RECIPROCITY.
The President Proclaims Reciprocity With
Cuba and Porto Rico-Articles Affected
Tw the

Cuba and Porto Rico-Articles Affected
By the Agreement.
WAsHINGT ON, Aug. 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 tho United
States to be admitted into the Cuba and
Porto Rico free of duty:
First-Meats in brine, salted or smoked,
Bacon hams and meats preserved in cans,
I'm lard or by extraction Of air, ierke1 beef
excepted
Secondhand.
Tnird-Tallow and other animal greases,
melted or crude. unmanufactured.
Fourth-Fish and shell hsh, live. fresh.
dried. in brine. smoked, picked, oysters and
salmon in cans.
Fifth-oats. barley. rye. buckwheat and
fionr o these cereals
Sixth-Starch and other alimentary prod
ucts of corn, except corn meal
Seventh-Cotton seed ofi-nnd meal cake of
said seed for cattle.
Eighth-HaY, stra W for forage and brap.
Ninth-Fruits, fresh, dried and preserved,
except raisinS
Tenth-vegetables and garden products,
fresh and dried.
Eleventh Rosin or pine tar, pitch and
turpentinc
TweIfth-Woods OF all kinds, in trunks or
logs, joists, rafters. pIanks. beams, boards,
round or cylindric. masts all through cut
planed and tongued and grooved, including
iooring
Thirteenth-Woods for cooperage, includ-
ing slaves. headings and wooden hoops.
Fourteenth-Wooden boxes, mounted or
uumounted except of cedar.
Fifteenth--Wood ordinary, manufactured
into doors, frames windows and shutters,
without paint or varnish. and wooden
houses nnmOnnted without naint
nisi.
slxteenth--wagons and carts for ordinary
roads and agriculture.
Seventeenth Sewing machines.
Observation-Disclosures. raw or unreflned,
according to the classification fixed In the
existing orders for the importation of this
article in said islands
Nineteenth-Coal, mineral
The following art icles are to be admitted
on payment of duties stated: Corn, 25 per
cent. per 10J kilogrammes; corn meal, rs
cents per 100 kilogrammes; wheat from jan
uary l. 1892 81 cents per 101 kilogrammcs,
and wheat flour, II per 100 kilogrammes;
butter and cheese, refined petroleum and
b jots and shoes are TO be admitted at a re-
duction of duty of 25 per centum.
From and after July /, 1892, as deinitive
arrang elnent, 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,
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.
salted and canned meats, jerked beef ex-
cepted; butter, lard and cheese; fish of all,
kinds and canned oysters and salmon; oats.
barley rye and buckwheat and flour of these
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 C orn meal is to
pay duty of 25 cents per 100 kilogrammeg;
wheat 80 cents and wheat flour 81 per 100
kilogrammes; cars and other vehicles fer
railroads or tramways, l per centum ad
valorem.
The products of the manufacturers of the
United States are to be admitted at a deduc-
tion of duty of 50 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 earthenware
and porcelain; iron and steel axle trees
springs and wheels for carriages, riyets and
washers; needles, pens, table and cary
ing knives, raZors, penknives. scissors, tin
plates and sheets, or manufactured; copper,
bronze, brass and nickel in lump or manu-
factured furniture of all kinds of wood or
metal; brushes, vegetable hair, broom corn,
willow. straw and other similar articles;
rice flour, bread and crackers, sausages,
stuffed meats, mustard sauces, pickles.
jams and jellies rubber and gutta percha
and manufactures thereof and rice.
The following articles ars to be admitted at
a reduction of 25 cents per centum-refined
petroleum and benzine; manufactured cot
ton, spun or twisted. and cotton goods of all
kinds woven or knit and ths same mixed
with other vegetable or animal fibers, and of
which cotton is an equal greater COM
ponent part, and clothing exclusively OF
cotton, rope, cordage and twine; colors,
in%s of all kinds, shoe blacking
and yarnishes; soap and per-
fumery, medicines and drugs; paper for
printing, for decorating rooms of wood, or
straw for wrapping, or packing; leather and
skins, dressed, vanished or japanned of all
kinds, including sole leather or betting,
boots and shoes, trunks, valfses and other
similar articles in whole or in part of leather,
harness and saddlery of all kinds; watches
and clocks and carriages
1t is understood, the president states
in 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 defini-
tive arrangement outlined in the procla
nation