Arizona republican., 1901-10-06
TRADE INTERCOURSE
United States Experience With
 Reciprocity
First Treaty of the Kind Was Made With Canada in 1854 = The Commercial Convention With Hawaii.

Washington. Oct. 5.-The practical experience of the United States with reciprocity is told by some figures and statements just compiled by the treas ury bureau of statistics. Three dis tinot tests of the policy have been made as follows:
 l. The reciprocity treaty with Can ada, existing from 1854 to 1866.
 ?. The reciprocity treaty with the Hawaiian government, existing from 1876 to the date of annexation. 1898.
 3. The series of treaties framed un- der the Mckinley tarin act of 1890. be- gining with the treaty with Brazil. April l. 1891: Dominican Republic. Aug. l. 1891; Spain for Cuba and Porto Rico, Sept. 1. 1891; Germany, Feb. l. 1892; United Kingdom for the British West Indies and British Guiana, Feb. 1, 1892; Nicaragua, April Is. 1892: Austria Hungary. May 25. 1892: Hon. duras. May 25. 1892; and Guatemala. May 50. 1892.
 Those conventions continued in ex- istence until the passage of the Will tailed provisions of them may be de- scribed briefly in general terms as fol- lows:
 l. The Canadian reciprocity treaty provided for the frse admission into the United States from Canada. and the free admission from Canada to the United States. of breadstuffs. provi- sions. live animals, fruits, fish, poul- try, hides and skins. furs. stone, pres and metals. timber and lumber. un- manufactured cotton, flax and heanp. unmanufaetured tobacco-the list of articles being identical for each coui.- try.
 2. The Hawaiian reciprocity treaty provided for the free admission into the United States of sugar. moIasses and other of the principal tropical productions of the islands, and for the free admission into the islands of bread stuffs. provisions. manufactures au1 general merchandise from the United States.
 B. In the group of treaties made Tn the years 1891 and 1892. under the act of 1890. the provisions were briefly as follows:
 Brazil-The free admission Into the United States. from Brazil of sugar.. uoiasses. coffee and hides, and the free admission into Brazil from the United States of breadstuffs, pork. fish. co.- tonseed oil. coal. agricultural irnpls- nents, machinery for mining and man ufacturing. mechanical tools. material for railway construction and numerous other articles, the product of the Unit ed States; also for 9 per cent reduc- ton in the rates of duty on certain other articles. including provisions. manufactures of iron and steel. leather, lumber, furniture. wagons and carria- ges and manufactures of rubber.
 Cuba and Porto Rico-The free ad- mission into the United States from Cuba and Porto Rico of sugar, molas-
 
 to the islands from the United States. free of duty, of salted meats. fish. larI. woods for cooperage and manufactured into doors. frames. etc. wagons ami carts, cars for railways, sewing ma chimes. manufactures of iron and stee.. cats and forage and numerous other ar ticles, the product of the United States: also corn and meal at 25 cents per 100 Kilograms, wheat at 90 cents per 100 kilograms. flour at s1 per 100 kilograms: also a reduction of 50 per cent on the duty on numerous other articles. es- pecially manufactures.
 With the British West Indies the treaty provided for the free admission into the United States of sugar. molas- ses. coffee and hides from the islands. and the free admission into the islands from the United States of live animals. canned or dried beef. fish. eggs, ma chinery for agriculture, irrigation and mining, carts and wagons, wire, rail- way material and locomotives. fertil- izers, fruits, sewing machines and T large number of manufactures; also a reduction of g per cent il the rates of duty on beef and pork salted and provisions, and of 50 per cent on bacon and hams. lard. bread and biscuits. boots and shoes, shocks and slaves and other articles.
 With the Dominican Republic anf British Guiana, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, the provisions were similar to those with the West Indies.
 With Germany the treaty provided for the free admission into the United States of sugar, mo,asses, coffee anI hides from Germany and the free ad- mission into Germany from the United States of bran, flax, feathers. hides and skins, tan bark; also a large list of ar ticles at fixed rate of duty, but in all eases below the regular tariff rates the list including breadstuffs, lumber. provisions, live animals, fruits and cer- tain manufactures.
 The treaty with Austria Hungary was similar in general characteristics with that of Germany.
 
 FRISCO DEMOCRATS.