The Brookhaven leader., 1891-08-06
MORE RECIPROCITY.
The President Proclsims Reciprocity with
Cuba and Porto Rloo-Articles Affected
by the Agreement.

The President Proclaims Reciprocity with
Cuba and Porto Rlco-Articles Affected
BY the Agreement.
WAsHINeT ON, Aug. 1.-THE Spanish
reciprocity agreement and the diplo-
matte correspondence In regard to it
were made public yesterday. The
articles on the free list are:
Products or manufacture of the United
States to be admitted into the Cuba and
Porto Rico free of duty:
First-Meats in brine, salted or smoked,
bacon. hams and meats preserved In cans,
In lard or by extraction of air, jcrkei beef
excepted
Secondhand.
Talrd-TAllow and other animal greases,
| melted or crude, ,unmanufaotured.
Fourth-Fish and shell fish, live, fresh.
dried, in brine, smoked, picked, oysters and
salmon in cans.
Flfh-oats barley, rye, buckwheat and
-four of these cereals
Sixth-Starch and other almentary prod
ucts of corn. except corn meal.
Sevcnth-Cotton seed oil and meal cake of
| said seed for cattle.
Elghth-Hay, stra W for forage and bran.
Nnth-Fruits, fresh, dried and preserved,
except raisins
Tcnth-vegetables and garden products.
Eleventh Rosin or pine tar, pitch and
| turpentine.
Twelfth-woods OF all kinds. in trunks or
| logs joists, rafters. planks. beams, boards,
ronnd or cylindric. masts all through cut,
planel aud tongued and grooved, including
| flooring.
| Thrteenth-Woodsf for cooperage, includ.
| ing slaves. headings and wooden hoops.
| Fourteenth--W OGDEN boxes, mounted or
uumounted. except of cedar.
| Fifteenth-Wood-, ordinary, manufactured
| into doors, frames, windows and shutters,
ifh N lfpt ah
| houses, unmounted, without paint or var
nish.
Sixteenth Wagons and carts for ordinary
roads and agriculture.
| Seventeenth Sewing machines
Observation-Disclosures raw or unrefined.
| acc ording to the classification fixed in the
existing orders for the Importation of this
| ar,ic G in said islands
| Nineteenth-Coal, mineral
The following articles are to be admitted
on payment of duties stated: Corn. 25 per
| cent. per I0I kilogrammes; corn meal. rs
cents per 10 kilogrammes; wheat from jan
| uary /. 1892 81 cents per 10) klogrammes,
| and wheat -four Il per 100 kilogrammes;
| butter and cheese, refined petroleum and
| b pots and shoes are to be admitted at re-
duction OF duty of 25 per centum.
From and after July /, 1892, as definitlye
| arrangement, the following articles will be
| admitted into Cuba AMI Porto Rico free of
| duty: Marble, jasper, alabaster and other
| stones, including cement, mineral waters, Ice,
| coal, pitch, tar, turpentine, raw petroleum,
bricks and tiles gold and silver coin, pig iron,
| iron pipes, beams rafters, wrought iron, steel
and bars and rails of all kinds, wrought nails,
| steel wire nails screws, nuts and pipes: raw
| cotton ,cottonseed, oil and meal cakes; tallow,
| books and pamphlets, wood of all kinds
| msnures; agricultural implements and ma
| chirery, materials and articles for pubic
| works such as railroads. tramways and roads
oil md nd n6 "a Y
| crpted; butter, lard and cheese; fsh of all,
| kinds and canned oysters and salmon; oats
| barley rye and buckwheat and flour of these
grains; starch, maizena, and other
products of corn, except corn
meal fruits, except raisns vegetables, hay
| straw bran; trees, plants, shrubs and garden
| seed and tan bark corn and C orn meal is to
| pay a duty of Is cents per 100 kilogrammcs;
wheat 30 cents and wheat flour 81 per 100
kilogrammCs; cars and other vehicles for
| railroads or tramways, l per centum ad
valorem
The products of the manufacturers of the
| United States are to be admitted at "a deduc-
| tion of duty of 80 per cent. Glass and crys-
| tai ware, plate and window glass, clay in
| tiles, colored tiles, glazed roof tiles, glazed
| tiles and pipes stoneware, fine earthenware
| and porcelain; iron and STEEL axle trees
springs and wheels for carriages, rivets and
| washers; needles, pens, table and carv-
| ing knives, razors, penknives. scissors, tin
plates and sheets, or manufactured: copper,
| bronze, brass and nickel in lump or manu-
| factured; furniture of all kinds of wood or
| metal; brushes, vegetable hair, broom corn,
| willow straw and other similar articles ;
| rice flour, bread and crackers, sausages,
| stuffed meats, mustard sauces, pickles,
| Jams and jellies rubber and gutta percha
| and manufactures thereof and rice.
The follow ing articles ars to be admitted at
| a reduction of 25 cents per centum-rehncd cd
petroleum and benzine; manufactured cot
| ton, spun or twisted. and cotton goods of all
kinds woven or knit and tbs same mixed
| with other vegetable or animal fbers, and of
| which cotton is an equal or greater com
| ponent part, and clothing exclusively of
! cotton, rope cordage and twine; colors,
INKS of all kinds, shoe backing
and varnishes; soap and per
| fumery, medicines and drugs; paper for
printing, for decorating rooms of wood, OF
straw for wrapping, or packing; leather and
| skins, dressed, vanished or japanned of all
kinds, including sole leather or betting,
boots and shoes, trunks, valises and other
similar articles in whole or in part of leather,
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
arrangement set forth in the transitory
schedule, the proclamation states, shall
come to an end on July 1, 1892, and ON
that date to be substituted by the defini-
tive arrangement outlined in the procla
tinn