Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-01
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The Concessions John w. Eos.
ter Obtained from Spain.
MARKET FOR AMERICANS IN CUBA.

Queen of the Antilles and Porto Rico
Free at Reduced Duty-General
Discredit to the Report of Secretary
Mobiles ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lacy
Gives National Banks Some Informa-
tion-Reduction of the Debt for July.
WASHINGTON, Aug President Har-
rison yesterday issued proclamation an
nouncing reciprocity with the Spanish ISL
ands of Cuba and Porto Rico under the
Mckinley bilE which, with view TO Sc
curing reciprocal trade. exempts from
duty sugar, molasses, coffee, and hides
upon their importation into the United
States. Under the terms of the treaty the
proclamation 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 Sept. /, 1891: Meats, sailed and
canned, jerked beef excepted; lard, tallow,
fresh, dried, and smoked fish, canned oys-
sters and salmon; oats, barley, rye, and
buckw heat, and -four of the cereals;
starch, maizena,, and other products of
corn, excepting cornmeal; cotton seed,
cotton seed oil, and meal cake: hay, straw
and bran; fresh, dried, and preserved
fruits, except raisins; vegetables, woods of
all kinds: wagons, sewing machines, raw
petroleum, coal, and ice
A List of Dutiable Goods.
The following articles are to be admitted
on payment Of the duties stated; Corn. -
cents per 100 kilogrammes; corn meal, Is
cents per l0h kilogrammes; wheat, from
Jan. l, 1872 30 cents per 100 kiioErammes,
and wheat -four 81 per 100 kilogrammes;
butter and cheese, refined petroleum and
boots and shoes are to be admitted at a
reduction of duty of p per centum.
Under the Definitive Arrangement.
From and after July /, 1892 as a defini-
tive arrangement, the following articles
will be admitted into Cuba and Porto
Rico free OF duey: Marble. jasper, ala
baster and other stones including cement:
mineral waters, ice, coal pitch tar, tur-
pentine, raw petroleum, bricks and tiles,
gold and silver coin, pig iron, iron pipes
beams, rafters, wrought iron, steel and
bars and rails of aa4 kinds, wrought nails
steel wire nails, screws. nuts and pipes,
raw cotton, cotton seed, oil and meal
cakes, tallow, books and pamphlets,
woods of all kinds, manures agricultural
implements and machinery, materials
and articles for public works
such as railroad tramways and
roads, sailed and canned meats ierked
beef excepted; butter, lard and cheese,
fish of all kinds and canned oysters
and salmon, oats, barley, rye and buck
wheat, and flour of these grains. starch
maizena, and other products of corr, except
corn meal; fruits, except rGisins; vegeta-
bles, hay, straw and bran; trees, plants
shrubs and garden seeds and tan bark
Corn and corn meal is TO pay duty of -
ner I'M Eilprrru INN
and wheat flour 81 per 100 kiIogrammes:
carriages, cars and other vehicles for rail,
roads or tramways, l per ceritum ad va
loren.
Acticles on Which Duty l. Reduced.
The following products from manufact
cries of the United States are to he admit
ted at a reduction o: duty OF 80 per centum:
Glass and crystal ware, plate and window
glass, clay in tiles, colored tiles. glazed
tiles and pipes. stoneware, fine earthen-
ware and porcelain, iron and stee:axles,
tires, springs, and wheels for carri-
ages; rivets and washers, needles, pens,
table and carving knives, razors, PEN
knives, scissors, tin plate in sheets or
manufactured, copper, bronze, brass and
nickel ID lump or manufactured furni-
ture of all kinds of wood or metal, rushes,
vegetable hair, broom corn. willow straw
and other similar articles, rice -four, bread
and crackers, sausages, stuffed meats
mustard, sauces, pickles, jams and jellies,
rubber and gutta percha and manufact-
ures thereof, and rice.
At a Reduction of .5 Per Cent.
The following articles are to be adj
mitted at a reduction of - per cent; re-
fined petroleum and benzine, manufac-
tured cotton, spun or twisted; cotton
goods of all kinds woven or knit and
the same mixed with other vegetable or
animal fibers and of which cotton is an
equal or greater component part; cloth
ing exclusively of cotton; rope, cordage,
and Irvine; cOlors, inks of all kinds, shoe
backing and varnishes, soap and per
fumery, medicine and drugs, paper for
printing for decorating rooms or of
wood or straw for wrapping or packing
leather and skins-dressed. vanished or
japanned-of all kinds, including sole
leather or betting: boots ana shoes. trunks,
valises, and other similar articles in whole
or in part of leather harness and sad
dlery of all kinds, watches and clocks'an
carriages.
Special Provisions.
1t is understood: the president states
in his proclamation that -four which on
its expectation from the United States
has been favored with drawbacks shall
not share in the foregoing reduction of
duties. The provisional arrangement set
forth in the transitory schedule, the
proclamation states. shall come to an end
on July l. 1892, and on that date be sub
stituted by the definitive arrangement
outlined in the proclamation.
THAT RESIGNATION OF NORIE