The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-05
FAVORABLE REPORTS ORDERED
Senate Foreign .ReIafionsz Commit
tees Action on Several Treaties.

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The Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee yesterday ordered favorable reports
on reciprocity treaties with Nicaragua,
Ecuador and British Guiana, and an ex-
tradition treaty with Great Britain,
adding to the list of extraditable offences
that for obtaining money under false pre-
fences.
The treaty with Nicaragua provides for
20 per cent reduction in the rates on
cane sugar not above Is Dutch standard
molasses. hides, indigo, coffee. bananas,
crude rubber, and mahogany in the rough
or rough hewn when imported into the
United States.
Nicaragua agrees to admit free OF duty
American live animals, wheat, corn, rye,
| oats, barley, agricultural seeds. live
plants, corn meal, starch, vegetables.
fruits, hay cotton seed oil, tar, turpen-
tine, asphalt, quicksilver, coal, fertili-
zers, lime, cement, wood, lumber. marble,
machinery, agricultural implements,
wagons. carts, railroad and structural
iron and steel fence wire motors FORCES
water pumps hose, iron piping, printing
materials, books. surgical. and mathemat-
zeal instruments, boats, and gold and sill
yer coin and bullion, and to reduce the
duty 20 per cent on cheap american wines
and -four.
| admitting into the United States, free OF
duty coffee, cotton and cotton waste,
crude cacao, crude india rubber, peruvian
bark. hot reeds and ivory nuts, and for a
20 per cent reduction in the duties on
cane sugar not above Is standard, hides
of neat cattle. straw hats, and tobacco.
Ecuador agrees to admit free of duty ag
ricultural implements and machinery,
machinery for manufacturing purposes.
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struction of railroads, lead and zinc in
bars, coal, bran, maize. cheap wines. pre-
served fruits, oil cake, oil meal and pre-
served salmon and to make 20 per cent
reduction in the duty on sewing machines
wheat flour. gh-priced wines. timber,
lumber. and cotton seed oil.
The. British Guiana treaty provides for
a reduction OF u 1-2 per cent in the duties
on cane sugars. fresh vegetables. and kao-
lin, imported into the United States from
that country, which agrees to admit free
of duty these products of the United
States: Electrical, mining, sugar. and ag
ricultural machinery and implements, BIZ
cycles, pitch, tar. rOsin, wire fencing.
carts. and vehicles, corn, corn meal. bran
tallOw, hay, brooms, cotton seed oil
lamps, horses and mules. The duty on
fresh dried, canned, or preserved fruits
and vegetables. timed or canned fish,
apparel. earthen and glassware hard
ware, cutlery. furniture. wooden or will
lowware. and wooden hoops. is not to ex-
coed per cent, and Oh the following ar
ticles the duty is not to exceed: Wheat
flour go cents per barrel; lard. IL cent
per pound; ham, bacon, tongues, and
canned or preserved meats, 1-2 cent per
pound; salt beef and pork, 10 cents per
100 pounds; butter, 40 cents per 100
pounds; oil meal and cake. IL 1-2 cents
per 100 pounds; pine lumber, 81 per 1 coo
feet; manufactured tobacco So cents per
pound; beer, cents per gallon. and
wines, cents per gallon.
These three reciprocity treaties did not
meet with opposition from the manufac-
turers of the United States, and were
therefore reported to the Senate with a
favorable recommendation while the
treaties with the British West Indian
colonies, with France and with the Ar
gentnc Republic, which affect various
American interests, ere still before the
committee without action.