Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-12


The President ProcIaims Reciprocity With
the New Republic-This Country to Re-
ceive Free Sugar, Coffee and Hides In Re-
turn For Free Expectation of Grain, Agri-
cultural Machinery and Provisions.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The President
has issued the following proclamation:
America
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, Pursuant to section of the act
of Congress approx ed October l. 1890 enti-
tied can act to reduce the revenue and
equalize duties of imports and for other
purposes" the Secretary OF State of the
United States Of America communicated to
the Government of the United States of Bra
I'll the action of the Congress of the United
States of America with view of securing
reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles
enumerated in said section 3, wit: Sugar,
mOlasses, coffee and hides to be exempt
from duty upon their Importation into the
United States OF America; and
whereas, The Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister PlenipOtentiary of Brazil at Wash
ington has communicated to the Secretary
OF State the fact that in due reciprocity for
and In consideration of the admission into
the United States of America free of all duty
OF the articles enumerated in section OF
said act, the Government of Brazil has, by
legal enactment, authorized the admission
from and after April l, 1891, into all the es.
tabliShed ports of entry of Brazil free of all
duty, whether national, state or municipal,
OF the articles OF merchandise named in the
following schedule, provided that the same
be the product and manufacture of the
United States of America:
First-Schedule of articles to be admitted
free into Brazil: Wheat, wheat flour, corn or
maize and the manufactures thereof includ-
ing corn and starch: rye, rye -four buck
wheat, buckwheat -four and barley; pOta-
toes, beans and peas: hay and oats; pork,
sailed, including picked pork and bacon,
except hams; fish, alted, dried or picked !;
cottonseed oil, coal, anthracite and btu
minous: tar, pitch and turpentine and agri-
cultural tools, implements and machinery
inning and mechanical tooS, implements
and machinery, including stationary and
portable engines and all machinery
Tor manufacturing and industrial pur-
poses, except sewing machines, instruments
ana books for the arts and sciences; railway
construction material and equipments. And
that the Government of Brazil has by legal
enactment further authorized the admission
into all the established ports of entry of
Brazil, with reduction of 70 per centum of
the duty designated on the respective article
in the tariff now in force or VIII oh may here
after be adopted in the United States Of
Brazil, whether national, state or municipal.
of the articles or merchandise named in the
following schedule, provided that the same
be the product or manufacture of the United
States of America.
Second-Schedule of articles to be ad
mitted into Brazil with reduction of duty
of rs per centum: Lard and substitutes
therefor-Bacon, hams, butter and cheese,
canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits and
vegetables; manufactures of cotton, includ-
ing cotton clothing; manufactures of iron
and steel, single mixed, not Included in
the foregoing free schedule; leather and
the manufactures thereof, except boots
and shoes; lumber timber and the man.
ufactureS of wood, including cooper
age. furniture Of all kinds, wagons, carts and
carriages; manufactures of rubber; and tina t
the Government of Brazil has further pro-
vided that the laws and regulations adopted
to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in
the declarations, and provides that the art-
cles named in the foregoing schedules are
the product of manufacture of the United
States of America shall place no undue re-
strctions on the importer nor impart any
additional fees therefor on the articles i'm
ported. And,
Whereas, The Secretary of State has by
Extraordinary and the Minister PIenipoten.
tiary of'Brazil at Washington that this ac.
ton of the Government of Brazil in grant
Ing exemption of duties to the products
and manufactures of the United States of
America is accG pied as due reciprocity of
Congress set forth in section of said act !;
Now, therefore be it known that 1, Benia-
min Harrison, President of the United States
of America, have caused the above stated
notifications of the tariff law of Brazil to be
made pub for the information of the citi-
Zens or the United States of America In
testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed Done at the city of
Washington this 9Th day of February 1884,
and of the independence of the United
States of America the one hundredth and
fifteenth.
BY the President: BENJAMIN HARRISON.
JAMES q. BLAINE. Secretary of State.