New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-08-05

The President Issues a Proclamation
Containing the Reciprocity
Treaty With Spain.
Many Domestic Articles Admitted In
to Cuba and Porto Rico Free
Of Duty.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-President Har-
rison issued to-day the proclamation an
nouncng the treaty with Spain, for reci-
procity trade with the Spanish islands Of
Cuba and Porto Rico. Under the tariff act
of last Oetpber. with view to securing
reciprocs ISrade this government exempted
from duty sugar. molasses, coffee and hides
upon their importation into the United
States.
Under the terms of the treaty, the proc
Ia ZION states the following articles. man.
ut, nred in the United States and included
in what is termed a transitory schedule, are
to be admitted free of duty into Cuba and
Porto Rico ON and alter Sept. /, 1891:
Meats Meats: sailed s and canned meats, jerked beet
hsh, canned oysters and salmon: oats, barley
rye and huckwheat, and flour Of the cereals
starch maizena,, ana other products Of corn
excepting corn meal; cotton seed, cotton seed
oil and meal cake; hay, straw and bran fresh,
dried and preserved fruits except raisins; vege-
tables, woods OF all kinds, wagons, sewing ma
Chimes raw petroleum, coal and ice.
The following articles are to be admitted
on payment of the duties stated:
Corn Is cents per 100 kilogrammes: corn
meal, rs cents per 100 kilogrammes; wheat,
from Jan. l, 1892, 80 cents per 100 kilo-
grammes; wheat flour, 81 per 100 kilogrammes;
butter and cheese, refined petroleum and boots
and shoes are to be admitted at a reduction OF
duty OF 25 per centum
From and after July 1, 1892 as a definite
arrangement, 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. coal, pitch
tar, turpentine, petroleum, 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 nai.>,
screws nuts and pipes; raw cotton, cotton seec,
Oil and meal cakes; tallow, books and pamph-
let's; woods OF all kinds, manures, agricultural
implements and machinery; materials and ar
ways and roads; sailed and canned meats.
jerked beef excepted; butter, lard aud cheese.
fish OF all kinds and canned oysters and sal
mon; oats, barley rye and buckwheat and -four
OF these grains; starch, maizena, and other
products OF corn, except corn NEAL fruits. ex-
cept raisins; vegetables, hay, straw and bran;
trees, plants, shrubs and garden seed and tan
bark; corn and corn meal is to pay duty OF
25 cents per 100 kilogrammes; wheat 30 cents.
and wheat flour 81 per 100 kilOgrammeS; car
riascs. cars and other vehicles for railroads or
tramWays per centum ad valorem.
REDUCTION IN DUTIES.
The following products from manufac-
turers of the United States are to be admit
ted at a reduction of duty Of so per cent:
Glass and crystal ware. plate and window
glass clay i'll tiles coored tiles. glazed roof tiles,
ware and porcel ain, IRON and steel axles, tires,
springs and wheels for carriages, rivets and
washers needless pens able and carving knives
razors, penknves scissors, tin plate in sheets or
manufactured, furniture OF all kinds OF wood OF
metals, brushes, vegetable hair, broom corn
willow straw and other similar articles, rice
flour bread and crackers. sausages, stuffed
meats mustard, sauces, pickles. jams and jel-
lies, rubber and gutta purcha and manufactures
., thereof, and rice.
The following articles are to be admitted
at q reduction OF rs per cent:
Refined petroleum and benzine manufactured
cotton spun or twisted, and cotton goods OF
with other vegetable or animal fibers and Of
which cotton is an equal or greater component
part, and clothing exclusively OF cotton, rope
cordage and Irvine, colors inks OF all kinds shoe
blacElng and varnishes, soap and perfumery,
medicines and drugs, paper for printing. for dec
Grating rooms, OF wood Or straw for wrapping
or packing: leather and SKINS dressed vanished
or iapanned, of all kinds, including sole leather
or beltinSs, boots AND shoes, trunks, valises and
other similar articles in whole 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 ex-
por1ation 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 l, 1892,
and on that date be substituted by the
oClii !leifS az ioAiSCAiASiiC ouC11Aeu III CuS
proclamation.
BLAINE's DIPLOMACY.
The correspondence preceding the pro-
mitigation of the treaty was begun by Sec
rotary Blaine, who in letter bearing date
of Jan. g. 1891, transmitted COPY Of the
existing tariff law to Senior Suarez Guanes,
the Spanish minister, and requested that
the attention Of his government be called
to the adjustment CT commercial relations
between the two countries OH permanent
basis equitable alike to both.
In the correspondence following this let
ter which refers to details the treaty, the
Spanish minister, under special instructions
from his government submits to the con-
sideration of the secretary of state
the serious injuries which have
been occasioned to the tobacco pro.
duction of the islands Of Cuba and
Porto Rico in consequence of the increase
of duties imposed OH that article by the
new tariff law of the United States, and
Cherishes the hope that while it may not be
possible to reduce them at once in the pres
ent arrangement because the president OF
the Union has not the power to do so. that
the latter will exercise his constitutional
powers in order to recommend to congress
Al reduction Of duties on the tobacco OF thu
islands.
The correspondence closed with letter
from Secretary Blaine, under date of June
16, 1891, tn witch he says that the sugges
ton contained in the minister's note re-
specting tobacco will have the careful con
SideratiOn of the president apd that II Oh II