Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — CUBAN RECIPROCITY. [ARTICLE]

CUBAN RECIPROCITY.

A Treaty Successfully Negotiated with Spain. The Doors of Another Country Opened to American Productions. A cablegram from Madrid on the 17t announces the completion of a treaty with Spain, which will result in opening the Cuban markets to American wheat, com and meat products. It is understood that Mr. Foster was intructed to insist upon, a reduction of at least 60 per cent, in the tariff upon flour, ana as this is somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 a barrel at the present time his success in this particular will certainly result in affording an enormous additional market for American cereals. The fact that Mr. Foster has succeeded in negotiating any sort of a treaty is sufficient evidence that he has been successfuMa this very important particular. The last treaty with Spain was negotiated by Mr. Foster, then the American minister at Madrid. It was defeated for ratification. As Cuba is one of the countries which come within the scope of the reciprocity clause of the tariff law, it will not now be necessary to ask the Senate to ratify the new treaty, but so soon as it shall have received the approval of the President and Mr. Blaine it can be promulgated and its provisions will become law from the date agreed upon between the two countries. A correspondent of the London Times at Madrid says that grave anxiety is felt there over tho state of affairs in Portugal. Ho expressed fears that a revolution is about to break out, in which event, he says, the lives of foreign subjects will be endangered.