Show LG DUTIES t ClEveland Vifl 1otL Xmpoxg Thom on 3 SpLu1h Ersducts F y t I 1 j Ji3WLN ateTHE W SAXKSWXG IHiLSS V ls ° a v Afofflv9 PL1 7s f rs It 5vr 3rnt Pj ticiK > rAkectV Cafe fW raadT tfP rt Rlc THc CoUmVVs fi o jvj > > ty t > f f fn i CWnhld flae2Wuoktke Worst tot Itra3Jff 14treiee Be Spa atPhf Ce4ry CI0MC17 WatcIkL SligarPrthIHc1I 1 L CQfltrOXnwdQ and Brzfl DLCP1Y IRterotetL 1 L 1 pec v 2 TJaless Sih ez miatiiin very ihqr thne ndajts r etojemovthe d wsfeictionJs inoi placed bar American commerce with thfrS nlsh test Indles the iniporitipn of the nffixhnum rIon neic1n co wno1itie It is probalJie tbi pro aaton MuIxin ilag dutiesT apbn Gjant3hQulYat and Porto llicaiiJini into the tfivftecl States The iimatidh this purse on ifiepairtif the rasldejitis distinctly 1 Conveyed ihsa ffeiiuest epVJ A by the 1 treasury departa ent tram tbct depart meat dl slate to rurhisix It i wIth e tailed Ii ttforattatlon as to toe ainolin bt such intpOTts andiu list of th vessels oarry ing tic Spanish fteg Tjhleii tid 5Vlth 4 oiv ports It waUie original Intentton ifthe st t iepartrnnt to have recourse i fo the jporrer 6f pr ohlbation of Spanish trade conyeyedxiy the art of 189D but as this power hIts never t > eei exercised = j and as it teHto ea deemed best tj ol i3oVthe line of pre n1en1P1tIsqute 0J clear that he department has tfallen feafck upon Jtion4228 ol the irevlaed statutes j j TIt AuthorLty L A paragraph of the old aiorrill tariff I cir which still stands on the statute fcooks imposes a duty of JLO per cent iu addition to all other dutiis upon goods brought into the United States in ahipa of foreign countries unless they are expressly relieved from theaddltional duty toy treaty These are known as dlscrJmlnating flag duties section 422S above referred to authorizing the President to suspend the benefits conferred con-ferred by fhe discriminathig flag statute g on being satisfied that any country is c discriminating Against the United States in the matter of trade It Is a singular fact that the only country which has so iar felt the force of this revision cf the Jaw is the very one against whom it Is to ba again used p In 1SS6 our relations with Spain were eo strained that President Cleveland 4 issued a proclamation reciting that Spain iad fatted to carry out the first article of the commercial agreement i eisrnea at Madrid February 13 18S4 which stipulated that tile differential ilagduties should be relieved at osice from the United States products enter finr Cuba and Porto Rico Being satisfies satis-fies that higher and discriminating t duties had been imposed he therefore revoked Iht suspension of the discriminating discrimi-nating customs duties imposed in ithe ports of the United States upon Cuban and Porto Rican products coming under the Spanish Hag The effect of this action fry the President was almost Instantaneous In-stantaneous for in fourteen days thereafter there-after toe issued a proclamation stating that by an agreement entered into that day October 27 1886 Spainhad removed the source of our complaint and Ihe consequently again restored her to treatment under the favored nation clause of our treaties Treasury officials at the request of the state department are engaged in collecting col-lecting statistics howing the volume of the trade that would be affected by a repetition of his action in 18SG by the = president Hunk For Spains Colonies It appears that the Spanish colonies Would Wave much the worst of 1L The tables show that during the fiscal year ended June 30 last Cuba alone exported ex-ported to the United States goods to the aggregate value of 75678261 and took from us goods to the amount of only 19855237 Porto Rico sent us in the same time goods valued at 3145 634 and received in return goods to the amount of 2705640 With the direct trade with Spain the lease was reversed re-versed for exports to that country were 13104076 as against imports amounting to 4255875 The tariff differences dif-ferences between Spain and the United States are being watched with keen interest in-terest by other sugarproducing countries coun-tries particularly Hawaii and Brazil as the execution of Secretary Gresh urns threat to discriminate against Cuban products will create a heavy demand de-mand for raw sugar now brought almost al-most exclusively from Cuba Mr Hastings the charge dAffaires of the Hawaiian legation is an interested inter-ested observer of the Spanish negotiations negotia-tions The Hawaiian sugar planters have given close attention to Cuba of late many of them visiting the p island and studied the Cuban processes pro-cesses of making sugar One of them wrote Mr Hastings recently of the an itiquated methods prevailing and other I Hawaiian planters pointed out to him v that the Cubans got but 25 tons of cane and two tons of actual sucar to the acre The Hawaiians thought that double this yield could be obtained and that Cuban plantations could not exist Sf cut off from the United States markets mar-kets Being dependent on this country for their product Hawaii would expect to benefit if Cuba was shut out The I Hawaiians expect soon to conclude Europeau treaties Minister Thurston ttias written to Mr Hastings briefly from Lisbon to the effect that his trip I to Spain Is proving entirely satisfactory satisfac-tory The minister has visited many I European countries for the purpose of L Inducing them to renew their treaties r of commerce and amity with the new republic of the Pacific He has also sought to make arrangements for the I Smmignftion to Hawaii of the better classes of the laborers While he gives no exactdetails the tenor of his letter endlcates success He will return to t Washington about January |