The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-13
PAYNE HAS A BILL
How Cuban Reciprocity May
be Made Effect We
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE
President May Issue a ProCIa-
nation Under Condition.

Washington, Nov. u.-Mr. Payne today
| introduced in the house a bill making
effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
The measure was referre dto the ways
and means committee. The following is
the full text of the measure:
That whenever the president of the
United States shall receive satisfactory
evidence that the Republic of Cuba has
made provision 10 give run effect 10 the
articles of the convention between the
United States and the Republic of Cuba.
signed on the eleventh cay CT December.
in the year of one thousand, nine hun
dred and two, he is hereby authoized
to issue his proclamation declaring that
he has received such evidence and there
upon on the tenth day after exchange
OF Publications of such convention be-
tween the United States and the Repub
lie of Cuba and so long as the said con-
vention shall remain in force all articles
of merchandise being the product of the
soil or industry of the Republic of Cuba
which are now imported into the United
States free of duty shall continue to be
so admitted froo OF duty and all other
articles of merchandise being the pro-
ducVt or the soil industry of the Re
public of Cuba imported into the United
States shall be admitted into the United
States shall be admitted al a reduction
of twenty per centum of the rates of
duty thereon, as provided by the tariff
act of the United Stares, approved July
"a, one thousand, eight hundred and nine
~ seven, 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 Re
public of Cuba are anG snail continue
during the term of said convention pre-
ferential in respect TO all like imports
from other countries:
"Provided-That while said conveitnon
is in force no sugar imported from the
Republic of Cuba and being the product
of the soil of industry of the Republic
of Cuba shall be admitted into the United
States at a reduction of duty greater
than twenty per centum or the rates OF
duty thereon as provided by the tariff
act of the United States approved July
"A, 1897, and no sugar the product of
any other foreign country shall be adj
mitted by treaty or convention into the
United States while this convention is in
force. at lower rate of duty than that
provided by the tariff act of the United
States, approved July Il, 1897. and pro-
vided further that nothing herein con
tanned shall be held or construed as an
admission on the part of the house OF
representatives that customs duties can
be exchanged other wise than by an act
of congress. originating in said house.
a
vention shall remain in force the laws and
regulations adopted or that may be adopt
ed by the United States to protect the
revenues and prevent fraud in the dectl-
rations and proofs that the articles 81
merchandise to which said convention
may apply are the product or manufac
ture of the Republic of Cuba shall not
impose any additionai charge or fees
therefore on the articles imported, eX-
cepting the consular fees established. or
which may be established BY the United
States for issuing shipping documents,
which fees shall not be nigner than those
charged on the shipments of similar mer-
chandise from any other nation what
soever; that articles of the Republic Of
Cuba shall receive. on their Importation
into the United States treatment equal
to that which similar articles Of the
United States shall receive on their i'm
portation into the ports of the Republic
of Cuba; that any tax or charge that
may be imposed by the national or local
authorities Of the United States upon the
articles of said convention. subsequent 10
said importation and prior to their en-
tering into consumption into the United
States shall be imposed and collected
without discrimination upon like articles
Whencesoever imported"