Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-22

gOtiated with Hawaii and it was | renewed in 1887. In 1883 General | Grant and Wm. Henry Treseot, for | the United States. negotiated a re- ciprocity treaty with Mexico The treaty provided practically for free trade. It was before congress sev- eral times, but never was ratified. While the Mckinley bill wass before congress a few years later to sames G. Blaine wrote thus to Senator Frye regarding reciprocity
 Six years ago the prime minister .of Spain. in his anxiety to secure free admission to our markets of the sugar of Cuba and Porto Rico. agreed to a very extensive treaty of reciprocity with General Poster, then our minister at Madrid 4 year before. in 1883, a very admirable treaty of reciprocity was negotiated by General Grant and Mir. Trescot as United States commissioners. with the republic of Mexico, a treaty well considered in all it's parts and all it's details, and it's results would have proved highly advantageous to both countries. Both these treaties of reciprocity failed to secure the approval of congress- and failed for the express reason that both pro vided for the free admission of su- gar. Congress would not then al low single pound of sugar to come in free Of duty under any circum- stances.
 The discussion Of reciprocity with Stain and Mexico resulted in the r79ing of a commission by con gress to seek closer trade relations with the countries of Central and South America, and the matter was pending when Grover Cleveland be- came president in 1885 and a dem ocratic congress came in with him. ! President Cleveland and some of the democratic leaders did not favor 1 reciprocity Also it was opposed 1 by certain protectionists whose in- terests were in danger of being af- fected by it. Then in 1889 the repub- hcans were again in power with Harrison as president The Mckinley bill was introduced In it's original form it not only built the walls of the tariff higher, but closed every loophole of reciprocity It brought this statement from James c. Blaine in speech !n his own state: l wish to declare the opinion that the United States has
 
 its highest duties is to enlarge the area of it's foreign trade. I mean the expansion of trade with countries where we can find profitable exchanges. I think We would be uhwisely content IT We did not seek to engage in what the younger Pitt so we'll termed annexation Of trade As finally passed the McKinIe, bill, while still keeping up the tar iff wall did make special concession, to reciprocity. Sugar. molasses. cof fee, tea and hides generally wer, admitted duty free. but the presi dent was authorized to put then upon 9 dutiable list should an. I country shipping them in fail t l! treat American exports fairly MI | Blaine, as secretary of state, stroni
 in his belief in the principle of re ! ciprocity, pushed negotiations wit 1 other countries until within e yea
 the United States had reciproca
 treaties with Brazil, Spain for Cub
 and Porto Rico, England for tn
 British possessions in the Wes
 Indies, with several Central Amer
 can states and with Germany an
 Austria-HUngary But that work wa
 undone when all the treaties wer
 abrogated by the Wilson law passe
 in the Cleveland administration tha
 followed
 i In 1896 the republicans returned {
 power with Mckinley as presiden
 and he Dingley law was passed
 That law recognized the principl
 of reciprocity in that it gSve tn | president authority to enter int I reciprocal trade relations with othe countries regarding certain article ] and authorized him to enter int
 treaties covering all products !
 and with the advice of the senat
 anu the approval of congress ft periods not exceeding five years
 1899 and 1900 treaties were signs with several Central and Soul
 American states and with the Eur pean countries which governed te
 ritory in the western hemispheT
 Tn 1898 a joint high commission Vi
 formed to promote reciprocity t
 tween the United States and Cana,
 and that subject has been much di
 cussed in recent years.
 President McKinley's position (
 reciprocity was expressed in t
 last speech he ever made It was
 Buffalo. September ,, 1901, a ft
 days before he was assassinsted.
 By sensible trade arrangemen
 which will not interrupt our hon
 production" he said, we shall (
 tend the outlets of our iDcreasil