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United States Senate Adjourns Sine
Die After Adopting Cuban
Reciprocity Treaty.
VOTE WAS so TO is FOR RATIFICATION.
An Amendment Requires House Ac-
ton Before the Treaty Becomes
EHective-Cuban Senate May Re.
ject the Pact-General Outline of
the .Provisions.

lying the Cuban treaty with an amend
ment requiring the cooperation of the
house in making the treaty effective.
Department officials are alarmed lest
the Cuban senate reject the treaty as
and insists on immediate ac-
ton by the United States.
Outline of the Treaty.
The Cuban treaty, ratified by the
senate, was negotiated in Havana, De-
cember II, 1902, between Gen. Tasker
II. Bliss, representing the United
States, and Seniors Carlos de Saldo and
Jose M. Gracia Monies, representing
Cuba. The United States senate made
several amendments to the document.
AS ratified by the senate Thursday, it
provides that all merchandise produced
by either country which now enters
the other duty free shall continue free
of import duties. ALI other Cuban
products imported into the United
States shall enter at reduction of
20 per cent. from the rate of duty i'm
posed by the United States on such
articles of merchandise. All imports
into Cuba from the United States not
entitled to free entry shall be given
reduction of 20 per cent, provided
they do not fall within certain named
classes, as to which greater reduc-
ton in duty is made.
The Sugar Question.
1t is specially agreed that tobacco,
in any form, of the United States OF
It's insular possessions shall not be
given any concession or rebate OF
duty when imported into Cuba. Both
countries agree that the rates of duty
granted during the life of the treaty
shall be preferential as respects like
imports from other countries. 1t is
specially provided that while the
treaty is in force no Cuban sugars
shall be admitted into the United
States at greater reduction than 20
per cent. from the present tariff
rates and that no sugar, produced by
any country other than Cuba, shall
be admitted into the United States
by treaty or convention, while the
new treaty is in force, at a lower
rate of duty than that imposed by
existing law.
Duration of Treaty.
Provision is made against any inn
pairment of the effect of the treaty
by means of national or local taxes
or charges. The treaty contains arti.
cles by which either country may de
nounce it should changes in the 9th
er's tariff deprive the Directing ma.
ton of it's tariff advantages or giving
six months notice and if new
treaty may likewise be negotiated in
certain events. If not denounced the
treaty shall continue in effect for five
years from the date it goes into
effect, which shall be ten days after
exchange of notifications. After five
years it shall continue in effect from
year to year until the expiration OF
one year from the date either coun.
try serves notice of its intention to
terminate the treaty.
Cuban Congress to Meet.
Washington, March 21.-Acting Sec
rotary of State LOOMS aud Mr.. Que.
sada, the Cuban minister, after dis.
cussing the prospects of an exchange
of ratifications of the Cuban treaty
within the time limit, decided to cable
President Palma requesting him tc
call the Cuban congress into extraor.
binary session Immediately for thi,
purpose, as that body otherwise would
not meet until April z, seven days after
the expiration of the legal time limit
for the exchange of notifications.