The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-18
OPERATIVE IN TEN DAYS
PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAIM
 TIoN ON CUBAN TREATY.


 Convention signed Early Yss'srday Afternoon-Ques of Equal FaVora to sugar of other NatIons-tsrisish Government Has Already Filed Notice That 1t Expects Favored Treatment.
 Washington, Dec. 1.-The president this afternoon issued proclamation re- citing the passage of the Cuban recip- rocity bill and declaring the Cuban re- ciprocity treaty to be effective ten days from to-day. The treaty was signed by the president few minutes before 1 p. m. It had previously been signed by the speaker of the house, who used a gold pen provided by the Cuban minis ter. The proclamation is as follows:
 By the president of the United States of America:
 "A Proclamation:
 ssWhereas a convention between the United States Of America and the re- public of Cuba to facilitate their conn mercial intercourse by improving the conditions of trade between the two countries, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at the city of Havana on the eleventh day of December, 1902, the original of which convention. being in the English and =nt,s fc. on V the senate of the United States as fol- lows: Here follows the text of the treaty. ass.
 "And, whereas. by the term of the said convention 1t is provided that the notifications therefor should be ex- changed at the city of Washington as soon as may be before the thirty-first day of January, 1903, which period was a supplementary convention signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the two countries on January 18th, 1903, ex- tended to the thirty-first day of March, 1903; h. + "And, whereas, the said convention of December Il, 1902 as amended by the senate of the United States. and the said supplementary convention Of Jan uary 26, 1903, have been duly ratified on both parts and the notifications of the two governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the thirty-first day of March, 1903;
 HAnd whereas, by it's resolution of March 19, 1903, the senate of the United States added to the end of article eleven of the said convention of Decem- ber il, 1902 the following amendment: This convention shall not take effect until the same shall have been approv- ed by the congress.
 And whereas, the congress gave it's approval to the said convention by an act approved December IF, 1903, entitled An act 10 carry into effect a conven- ton between the United States and the republic of Cuba, signed on the 11th day of December, in the year 1902. which act is word for word as follows: Here follows the act.
 .sAnd. whereas, satisfactory evidence has been received by the president of the United States that the republic of Cuba has made provision to give full ef- feet to the articles of said convention,
 .Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States of America, in conformity with the said act of congress. do hereby declare and proclaim the said conven- tion. as amended by the senate of the United States, to be in effect on the tenth day from the date of this. my proclamation.
 "Wherefore. have caused the said convention, as amended by the senate Yr.. sAo4 Lr@-I Jn .,,5y y<1i Ia to the end that the same and every clause thereof, as amended, may be ob- served and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
 .sIn testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and cause the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
 stDone at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thee, and of the indepen- dence of the United States, the one hun- dred and twenty-eighth.
 Signed:
 s.Theodore Roosevelt. ''By the president,
 "John Hay, Secretary of State."
 Now that the bill has become law a question of great interest has arisen, namely, the effect of the reduction of the duty on Cuban sugar upon importa- tion of sugar from other countries. The British government has served formal notice upon the state department that under the favored nation clause it ex- poets that British sugar from the Brit ish West Indies shall be admitted into the United States on equal terms with Cuban sugar, and it is not doubted that Germany, France, Austria, and the oth- or great beet sugar producing countries will do likewise An opinion of Attor- ney General olney, in President Cleve- lands administration was adverse to such demands, but the question prom ises to be reopened with vigor.
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