St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-30
MORE RECIPROCITY.
British West Indian Colonies
Come Into Mr.. Blaine'S
Trade Net.
Extensive List Of American
Products That May Have
Free Entry.
Maj. Mckinley States Secre-
tary Blaine'S Position on
Free Hides.
The Japanese Diet DiSs olveo
for Obstructing Measures
Progressive.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ga reciprocity
arrangement has been entered into be-
tween Secretary Blaine and the British
minister, to embrace the British West
Indian colonies of Jamaica. Barbados,
the Leeward and Windward islands
except Grenada, Trinidad and the col
Ony of British Guiana. 1t is expected
that the arrangement will go into oper-
alton as TO the West Indian colonies
named OH Feb. next, and as to British
Guiana March 81 next.
The official proclamation and CORE
spOndence will probably not be issued
for ten days or two weeks, as it must
await notice that the tariff legislation of
the colonies rendered necessary by the
arrangement has been enacted. The
following are the principal articles to
be admitted free of all duty and any
other national, colonial or municipal
charges:
General Free List.
Animals alive, beef. beef and pork
preserved in cans, printed matter in all
languages, bottles of glass or stOneware,
bran, middlingS and shorts, carts,
wagons, cars and DarrOws mot includ-
ing vehicles of pleasure), cottonseed
and its products. eggs, fertilizers of all
kinds. natural and artificial; fish, fresh
OF on ice, and salmon and oysters i'll
cans; fruit and vegetables, fresh and
dried. when not canned, timed or bot
tied: gold and silver coin of the United
States and bullion; hay end straw
for forage, ice. India rubber
and gutta percha goods; nipple
ments, utensils and tools for
agriculture; lime of all kinds; all ma
terialS and appliances for railways and
| tramways; paper of all kinds for print
] ing and wrapping; Photographic appa-
ratuS and chemicals; all accessories for
| printing; quicksilver; rosin. tar, pitch
and turpentiDe; salt; sewing machines
| Shlpbuildlng materials, including wire
| rope; starch of Indian corn or maize
steam boilers and steam pipes; sulphur:
tanbark; electrical appliances of all
kinds for illumination: trees, vines
plants, seeds and grains of all kinds fol
propagation or cultivation; wire fol
fences; proprietary medicines.
These Enter Jamaica.
The following affect Jamaica only
Coal and coke, sugar refined. wire fOl
fences, appliances for fastening the
same; zinc, tin and lead in sheets. 1t i!
understood that the packages or cover
ings in which the articles named in The
foregoing schedule are imported shall
he free of duty if they are usual anC
proper for the purposes.
Schedule B-Articles to be admitted
at so per cent reduction of the dut,
designated in the customs tariff now il
force: Bacon and bacon hams, breat
and biscuit, butter. cheese, lard and it
compounds. Lumber of pitch pine, il
rough or prepared for building, to b.
reduced to nine Shillings per 1000 feet
Schedule C-Articles to be admitte,
at 25 per cent reduction of the dut
designated In the customs tariff now il
force: Beef, sailed or picked: cor
and maize, cOrnmeai, oats, petroleum
and its products. crude or refined; pork
sailed or picked; wheat.