Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-19
RECIPROCITY.
fhs President Issues His Proclamation in
Compliance with the Act Of Congress
Calling for Closer Trade Rsla-
tions with Brasil.

Calling for Closer Trade Rsla-
tions with Brasil.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The president
late this afternoon issued the follow
ing proclamation:
BY the President of the United States
of Observation-Disclosures:
Whereas, Pursuant to section 8 OF
the act of congress approved Oct. l.,
1890, entitled "An act to reduce rev.
enue and equalize duties on imports,
and for other purposes, the secretary
of state of the United States of Amer
lea communicated to the government
of the United States of Brazil the ac-
Ition OF the congress OF the United
States of America, with the view to
secure reciprocal trade, in declaring
articles enumerated in said section 3,
to-wit: Sugars, molassss, 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 Washington has communicated to
the secretary of state the fact that, in
due reciprocity for and of federation OF
admission into the United States of all
duty OF articles enumerated in section
3 of said act, the government OF Brazil
has, by legal enactment, authorized
the admission, from and after April 1.
1891, into all established ports OF
entry of Brazil, free of all duty, whether
national, state or municipal, of ar
ticles or merchandise named in thefol-
lowing schedule, provided that the
same be the product and manufacture
of the United States:
/. The schedule of articles to be ad-
mitted free into Brazil: Wheat, wheat
flour, corn or maize, and manufac.
lures thereof, including corn meal and
starch; rye, rye flour, buckwheat
buckwheat flour, and barley; pota.
toes, beans and peas, hay and oats,
pork, salted, including picked pork
and bacon, except hams; fish, salted
dried or picked; cotton seed oil; coal
|anthraclte and bituminous; rosin, tar,
pitch and turpentine; agricultural
tools, implements and machinery, in.
Guiding stationary and portable en-
gines, and all machinery for manufac-
turing and industrial purposes, except
sewing machine einstruments and books
for art or science; railway construc-
tion material and equipment. And
the government OF Brazil has, by legal
enactment, further authorized by the
admission into all established ports oi
entry of Brazil, with a reduction OF
twenty-five per centum OF duty desig-
mated on the respective articles In tariff
now in force, or which may hereafter
be adopted in the United States OF
Brazil, whether national, state or mu
nicipal, of articles or merchandise
named in the following schedule, pro-
vided the same be the product or man
ufacture of the United States of Amer
ica:
2. Schedule of articles to be admit
ted into Brazil with reduction of %
per centum. Lard and substitutes
therefore, bacon, hams, butter and
cheese, canned and preserved meats,
fish, fruits and vegetables, manufac.
lures of cotton, including cotton cloth
| ing, manufactures of IRON and steel,
single or mixed not included in the
foregoing free schedule, leather and
manufactures thereof, except boots
and shoes, lumber, timber and manu-
factures of wood, including cooper,
age, furniture of all kinds, wagons,
carts and carriages, manufactures ol
rubber. And that the government oi
Brazil has further provided that rules
and regulations, adopted to protect
it's revenue and prevent fraud in dec.
larations and proof that articles
named in the foregoing schedules are
products or manufacture OF the United
States of America, shall place no un'
due restrictions on importers nor i'm
.t, fae
therefore on articles imported, and
Whereas, The secretary OF state has
by my direction, given assurance to
| the envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary OF Brazil at Washing
ton, that the action OF the govern
ment of Brazil in granting exemption
of duties TO products and manufaet
ures of the United States OF America
is accepted as due reciprocity for tn,
action OF congress as set forth in sec
ton 3 of said act,
| Now therefore, be it known, that /
BENJAMIN Harrison, president OF TIN
United States OF America, have ecauseC
the above stated notifications OF tn
tariff law OF Brazil to be made publi
for the information of the citizens o
the United States of America.
In testimony whereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington
this fifth day of February, one thous
and eight hundred and ninety-one
and of the independence of the unite'
States of America one hundred ant
. fifteenth.
"BENJAMIN HARRISON,
president.
"By JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary OF State"