Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — OUR TREATY WITH SPAIN. [ARTICLE]

OUR TREATY WITH SPAIN.

Concessions That Will Soon 'Give tTg Complete Control of the Trade with Cuba. jSpain and the United States, as drafted by [Premier Canovan Del Castillo, represent* ilng Spain, and Gen. J. W. Foster, representing the United States, is based, as Ifar as the United States Is concerned, upon the third, or reciprocity section, of thenewi American tariff law. In return for the privilege of free entry Into the United States of Antillis sugars, molasses, coffee and hides, and a reduction of the duty on tea, America will obtain exemption from duties on most of her raw and manufactured products and a reduction of the tariff on cereals and flour. The negotia- 1 tions were protracted upon the question of the entire abolition of the tariff on cereals, Iflour and oils, including petroleum and lard. The same question in regard to tobacco was also raised, but not coming within the scope of the third section of the American tariff law, was put aside.