Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-06
RECIPROCITY.

The President Issues His Proclamation
Announcing the Conclusion of an Agree
ment for Reciprocity with the Spanish
Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico Under
the Tariff Act of October, 1890.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-President Har-
rison issued, yesterday, his proclama-
ton announcing reciprocity with the
Spanish islands of Cuba and Porto Rico.
under the tariff act of last October,
with view to securing reciprocal
trade, exempting from duty sugar, mo-
lasses, coffee and hides, upon their
importation into the United States
Under the terms of the treaty the proc
lamation states, the following articles,
manufactured in the United States
and included in what is termed
transitory schedule, are to be
admitted free of duty into
Cuba and Porto Rico from and after
September l, 1891: Meats, sailed and
canned meats, jerbed beef. excepting
lard, tallow: fresh, dried and smoked
fish, canned oysters and salmon: oats.
barley, rye and bucl1wheat and flour
of the cereals: starch, maize and other
products of corn, excepting corn meal;
cotton seed, cotton-seed oil and meal
and preserved fruits. except raisins;
vegetab les, woods of all kinds, wagons,
sewing machines, raw petroleum and
coal and ice.
OThe following articles are to be adj
mitied on payment of the duties stated:
Corn, % cents per 100 kilOgrammeS;
corn meal. - cents per 100 kiiOs; wheat,
from January 1, 1892, so cents per 100
kilos, and wheat flour 81 per 100 llilos;
butter and cheese, refined petroleum
and boots and shoes are to be admitted
at Il reduction of duty of 25 per centum.
From and after July /, 1892. as a
detinitive arrangement, the following
articles will be admitted into Cuba and
Porto Rico free of duty: Marble, Jas
per- al abaSter and other stones, includ-
ing cement, mineral waters, ice, coal,
pitch tar, turpentine, raw petroleum,
bricks and tiles, gold and silver
coin, pig iron, iron pipes, beams, raft
ers, wrought iron, steel and bars and
rails of all kinds, wrought nails steel
wire nails, sore VS., nuts and pipes; raw
cotton, cotton-seed oil and meal cakes,
tailow; books and pamphlets;
woods of all kinds; manures;
agricultural implements and ma
chinery: materials and articles
for public works. such as railroad tram
ways and roads; sailed and canned
meats, jerl1ed beef excepted; butter,
lard and cheese; fish of all kinds and
canned oysters and salmon; oats, bar
ley, rye and buclkwhcat and flour of
these grains; starch, maizena, and other
products of corn, except corn meal;
fruits. except raisins; vegetables, hay,
straw and bran; tree plants. shrubs
and garden seeds and tanbarlz. Corn
meal is to pay duty of - cents per 100
kiloS; wheat, 80 cents, and wheat flour
81 per 100 llilos: carriages, ears and
other vehicles for railroads or tram
ways ! per centum ad valOrem-
The following products from manufac-
turers of the United States are to be
admitted at reduction of duty of 80
per centum: Glass and crystal ware,
plate and window glass; clay in tiles,
colored tiles, glazed roof tiles. glazed
tiles and pipes; stoneware, fine earth
enware and porcelain; iron and steel
axles. tires, springs and wheels for
carriages; rivets and washers: nee
dies, pens; table and carving knives,
razOrS, penl<niveS, scissors: tin plate in
sheets or manufactured; copper, bronze,
brass and nickel in lump or manufac-
tured; furniture of all kinds of wood or
metal; rusheS, vegeta bic hair, broom
corn, willow straw and other similar
articles: rice flour, bread and crackers;
sausages, stuffed meats, mustard
sauces, pickles. jams and jcllics, rub
Der and gutta percha and manufactures
thereof and rice.
The following articles are to be adj
mitted at a reduction of % per cent:
Refined petroleum.; manufactured cot
ton and cotton maize of all kinds and
clothing, exclusively of cotton; rope,
cordage and Irvine; colors, inks of all
kinds shoe backing and varnishes;
soap and perfumery; drugs and medl-
cine; paper for printing, for decorating
rooms, of wood or straw for wrapping
or packing; leather and skins, dressed,
vanished or japanned of all kinds;
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 expectation from the United
States has been favored with draw
backs, shall not share in the foregoing
reduction of duties. The provisional ar
rangement set forth in the tranSitOry
schedule, the proclamation states, shall
come to an end on July l, 1892, and on
thatdate be substituted by the definitive
arrangement outlined in the proclama-