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 Slabs Republican Leaders
Who Have Murdered Their
Party.

WASHINGTON, Feb.5.-The president,
late this afternoon, issued the follow
ing proclamation: BY the President Of
the United States of America-A Proc
lamatiOn. Whereas, pursuant to sec
ton Of the act of congress approved
Oct. l, 1890, entitled AN act to reduce
the revenue and equaliZe duties on i'm
ports, and for other purposes" the sec
rotary 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 3.
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 adj
mltted free into Brazil: Wheat, wheat
flour; corn or maize, and the manufact-
ures thereof, including cornmeal and
starch; rye, rye -four buckWheat, buck
wheat flour and barley; potatoes, beans
and peas; hay and oats; pork, sailed, in
Guiding picked pork and bacon, except
hams; fish, sailed, dried and picked;
cottonseed oil; coal, anthracite and
bituminouS; rosin, tar. pitch and tur-
pentlne; 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 adj
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 or which may hereafter be
adopted in the United States of Brazil.
whether national, state OF 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 adj
mitted into Brazil, with a 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 |, 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
airy. 1891, and of the independence of
Benjaman Harrison. By the president,
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Secretary of State.