Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — Reciprocity in Lumber. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity in Lumber.

The N. Y. Sun’s Ottawa special saye: The correspondent of the Sun learns, on no less authority thau the Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, that an important proposition has been made by the Dominion Government to the United States authorities through the medinm of the British Government. It is said the Governments of the United States and Canada should consider the propriety of removing the import and export duties on lumber of all kinds, or, in other words, that the Canadian Government will abolish the important export duties on lumber, providing the Washington authorities will teciprocate. As an earnest of good faith the Dominion authorities have meanwhile reduced the export duty on pine logs frofn $3 to $2 per ttiousand feet, board measure, the figure at which it stood in November last, previous to the representations of the Canadian lumbermen asking for the increase. Thiß new order takes effect July 1- ______