Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-03
OUR GERMAN TRADE
Effect of the New Reciprocity
Treaty Thereon.
LIST OF PRODUCTS ADMITTED FREE,

Together with the Duty on Other Arti-
cies-ProSress of Negotiations in the
Seaierics Matter-The Idea of Caucus-
ing on Free Coinage Given Up for the
Present and the Reason Therefor
No Free Silver Plank in the National
Democratic Platform-OfHciaI Notes.
WASHINGTON Feb. 3.-The president
yesterday issued proclamation announc-
ing the reciprocal agreement recently con-
cluded between the United States and
Germany. After reciting briefly the nego-
tlations with Germany the president an
nounces that on and after Feb. ], 1892,
these articles will be admitted free into
Germany: Bran, malts, germs; fax, raw,
dried, broken or hetcheled, also refuse por-
tlons; agricultural productions not other
wise designated; horse hair, raw, helcheled,
boiled, dyed also laid in form of tresses
and spun; bristles; raw bed-feathers;
bed-feathers, clean and prepared; hides
and skins, raw (green, salted, lined, dried
and stripped of the hair for the manufac-
ture of leather; charcoal, bark of wood
and tan bark; residue, solid, from the
manufacture of fat oils, also ground; live
animals and animal products not men
toned elsewhere; also beehives and live
bees; colts following their dams; wool, in
Guiding animal hair not mentioned else.
where, as well as stuffs made thereof:
wool, raw, dyed, ground, also hair, raw,
hetcheled, boiled, dyed; also curled.
Duties on other Articles.
The following are admitted at the duty
per 100 Kilograms noted, the duty being
reckoned in marks.
Wheat. $50; rye, $50: oats, 2sO: buckwheat,
p pulse, lj0; other kinds of grain not specially
mentioned !; barley ,; rape-sccd, turnip-seed,
poppy, sesame, peanuts. and other oleagineous
products not specially mentioned. >; corn or
maize, l6u; malt tmalted barley, 500; anise,
corriander, ferncl ahd carraway seed, &
lumbe and timber, (a) raw or merely rough
hewn with or saw, with or without bark,
oaken barrel slaves, 90; (b) marked in the di-
rection Of the longitudinal axis, or prepared or
cut otherwise than by rOugh-hewing, and bar
rel slaves not included under (a), unpeeled
osiers and hoops, hubs. felloes, and spokeS, .:}0
(c) sawed III the direction of the longitudinal
axis, ucplaned boards, sawed cant lewoodS, and
other articles, sawn or hewn, 80: wood in
cut venecrinG, unglued, unstaincd parts
of floors, :; hops and hop meal,
Il gross; butter and artificial butter, l.:
meat, slaughtered, fresh, with the exception of
pork, I5 pork, slaughtered, fresh, and dressed
meat, with the exception of bacon, fresh
prepared, l.; game of all kinds Cnot alive, 20
cheese, except Strecchino, Gorgonzola and Par
mesan, 20; fruits, seeds, berries, leaves
flowers, mushrooms, vegetables, dried,
baked, pnlverized, only boiled down
or salted tall these products so
far as they are not included under other
numbers of tie tariff. juices of fruits, berries
and turnips, preserved without sugar TO be
eaten, dry nuts, 1: mi products of grain and
pulse-grOund shelled grains. peeled bar
ley, groats grits, flour, common cakes bakers
products, 1.5E goose grease and other greasy
fats such as olsomargarne. sperfett IA mixture
ofstearic fats with OLD, beef, narrow. 10.
The Schedule for Animals.
The following are dutiable at the eN-
pressed rate each:
Horses, ~: horses up to two years old, 10;
bulls and cows, 9: oxen, 25.5l calves less than
six weeks old, 3; hogs, >; pigs weighing less
than ten Kilograms, !; sheep, /; lambs, 80.