The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-11-20
CUBAN TREATY
PAYNE INTRODUCES THE BILL IN
THE HOUSE.
FULL TEXT OF The MEASURE
Fixes Twenty Per Cent Sugar Limit
Requires that No Greater Reduction
of Duty Than This Be Made While
Convention is in Force.

WASHINGTON-Mr Payne on
Thursday introduced in the house a
bill making effective the new Cuban
reciprocity treaty. The measure was
referred to the ways and means COM
mittee. 1t is, in part, as follows:
That whenever the president OF
the United States shall receive salts
factory evidence that the republic Of
Cuba has made provision to give full
effect to the articles of the conven-
tion between the United States and
the republic of Cuba, signed on the
11th day of December, in the year
one thousand nine hundred and two,
he is hereby authorized to issue his
proclamation declaring that he has re-
ceived such evidence, and thereupon
on the 10th day after the exchange of
ratifications of such convention be-
tween the United States and the re-
public of Cuba and SO long as the
said convention shall remain in force,
all articles of merchandise being the
product of the soil or industry of the
republic of Cuba, which are now i'm
ported into the United States free of
duty shall continue to be so admit
ted free of duty, and all other arti-
cles of merchandise being the pro-
duct of the soil or industry of the
republic of Cuba imported into the
United States shall be admitted at a
reduction of 20 per centum of the
rates as provided by the tariff act OF
the United States approved July "a,
1897, or as may be provided by any
tariff law of the United States subse
quently enacted.
The rates of duty herein granted
by the United States to the republic
of Cuba are and shall continue dur
ing the term of said convention pref
erential in respect to all like imports
from other countries.
Provided-That while said conven-
ton is in force, no sugar imported
from the republic of Cuba and being
the product of the soil or industry OF
the republic of Cuba shall be admit
ted into the United States at reduc-
tion of duty greater than 20 per cent
um OF the rates of duty thereon, as
provided by the tariff act of the Uni
ted States approved July "a, 1892
and no sugar, the product of any 9TH
er foreign country, shall be admitted
by treaty or convention into the Uni
ted States while this convention is in
force, at a lower rate of duty than
that provided bv the tariff act Of the
United States, approved July "a, 1897,
and
Provided further, that nothing mere
in contained shall be held or con-
strued as an admission on the part OF
the house of representatives that GUS
toms duties can be changed otherwise
than by act CT congress, originating
in said house.
Section 2. That so long as said con-
vention shall remain in force, the laws
and regulations adopted or that may
be adopted by the United States to
protect the revenues and prevent
fraud in the declarations and proofs
that the articles of merchandise to
which caid convention may apply are
the product or manufacture of the re-
public OF Cuba, shall not impose any
additional charge or fee therefor on
the articles imported, except the con-
sular fees established, or which may
be established by the United States
for issuing shipping documents.