St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-06
High Tariff Bars Let Down Be-
tween This Country and
Brazil.
The Presidents Proclamation
Concerning Blaine's Pet
Idea.
The Irideseent Ingalls, Fires
a Shot Over the Grave Of
Cloture,
And Stabs Republican Leaders
Who Have Murdered Their
Party.

WASHINGTON, ,Feb.5.-The president,
ing proclamation: BY the President Of
the United States of America-A Proc
lamatiOn. Whereas, pursuant to sec
tion of the act of congress approved
Oct. l, 1890, entitled IAN act to reduce
the revenue and equaliZe duties on i'm
ports, and for other purposes" the Sec
retary of state of the United States of
America communicated to the govern
ment of the United States of Brazil the
action Of the congress of the United
States of America with view to Sc
cure reciprocal trade, in declaring the
articles enumerated in said section 8,
to wit: sugars, 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 Washington has communicated to
the secretary OF state the fact that, in
due reciprocity for and 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 lega
enactment, authorized the admission,
from and after April l, 1891, into all the
established ports of entry of Brazil, free
of all duty. whether national; state, or
municipal, of the articles of merchandise
named in the following schedule, pro-
vided that the same be the product and
manufacture of the United States of
America:
Duty Free.
FirSt-Schedule of articles to be ad-
mltted free into Brazil: Wheat. wheat
flour; corn or maize, and the manufact-
ures thereof, including cOrnmeal and
starch; rye, rye flour, buckwheat, buck
wheat flour and barley; potatoes, beans
and peas; hay and oats; pork, salted, in
Guiding picked pork and bacon. except
hams; fish, salted, dried and picked;
cottonseed oil; coal, anthracite and
bituminouS; rOsin, tar, pitch and tur-
pentine; agricultural tools, implements
and machinery; mining and mechanical
tools, implements and machinery, IN
Guiding stationary and portable engines.
and all machinery for manufacturing
and industrial purposes, except sewing
machines; instruments and books TOR
the arts and sciences. railway conStruc-
ton material and equipment: and that
the government of Brazil has, by legal
enactment, further authorized the ad
mission into all the established ports
OF entry of Brazil, with reduction of
25 per cent of the duty designated on
the respective article in the tariff now
in force OF which may hereafter 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:
Partial Reductions.
Second Schedule of articles to be ad-
mitted into Brazil, with reduction of
duty of 25 per centum: Lard and sub
stitutes therefor; bacon, hams; butter
| and cheese; canned and preserved
| meats, fish, fruits and vegetables; man
| ufactures of cotton, including cotton
clothing; manufactures of iron and
| steel, single or 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 cooperage,
| furniture of all kinds, wagons, carts
and carriages; manufactures of
rubber; and that the government
of Brazil has further provided
| that the laws and regulations adopted
| to protect its revenue and prevent
fraud in the declarations and proof that
| the articles named in the foregoing
schedules are the product or manufact-
| ure of the United States of America
shall place no undue restrictions on the
| importer, nor impose any additional
| charges or fees therefor on the articles
imported;
Due Reciprocity.
And, Whereas the secretary of state
has, by my direction, given assurance
to the envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentlary of Brazil at Washing
| ton that this action of the government
of Brazil in granting exemption of du-
ties to the products and manufactures
of the United States of Amer
| lea, is accepted as due reci-
| procity for the action of congress as
set forth in section of said act; now,
| therefore, be it known that i, Benjamin
Harrison, president of the United
| States of America, have caused the
above-stated notifications of the tariff
law of Brazil to be made public for the
| information of the citizens of the United
States of America. In testimony
whereof | nave hereunto set my hand
| and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington on this 5th day of Febru-
ary. 1891, and of the independence of
| the United States of America the 115th.
Benjaman Harrison. By the president,
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.
The Entente Cordiale.
The first of series of letters which
| passed between Secretary Blaine and
| the Brazilian minister upon the subject
| of reciprocity was written by Mr.Blaine,
and was dated Nov. 3, 1890. In 1t the
secretary OF state expresses to Senior
ment of Brazil will meet the govern
ment of the United States in spirit of
| sincere friendship in its desire for such
| trade relations with that country as
shall be reciprocally equal. and that it
may be theIhappy fortune of Senor Men
| donca and himself to be instrumental
| in establishing commercial rela-
| tions between the two >repub-
lies on permanent basis of reciprocity
| profitable to both. In this reply, dated
| Jan. 81, 1891, Senor Mendonca informs
| Mr.. Blaine that the United States of
| Brazil are animated by desire to
strengthen and perpetuate the friendly
relations which happily exist between
| them and the United States of AmerIea
| and to establish basis of reciprocity
| and equality. Mr.. Blaine, on the same
| day, in note to Senor Mondonca. eX
| presses his satisfaction at the attitude
| of the Brazilian government in the
matter, and asks Senor Mendonca to
| meet him at the department OF state to
| agree upon the time and manner Of