Show GREAT GREAr URn BRITAIN AIN OUT IN THE COLD Pitifully Small Concession Is Made by United States in New Reciprocity Treaty LESS DUTY ON ART WORKS BEST THAT COULD COULt BE DONE UN UNDER UNDER UNDER DER THE LAW Washington Nov 24 A pitifully I small concession is that made to the United Kingdom by America in the new reciprocity arrangement accord according accordIng according ing to the admission of the officials here themselves but after all it is pointed out it was the best that could be done under the law Details of the agreement reached between Ambassador dor Reid and the British foreign office have not yet reached the tile state de department department but the scope of the matter Is fully understood here As stated In Inthe Inthe inthe the cable dispatches the United King Kingdom Kingdom dom donl agrees to admit free samples of commercial travelers and in return America agrees to admit at reduced rates of duty works of art originating in the United Kingdom Of Little Value The value of the concession made by America can be stated slated in comparative comparatively ly small figures Last year the total value of dutiable works of are import imported ed from Great Britain into the United States was wag The rate of duty was 20 per cent ad valorem and under the new arrangement this has been re reduced reduced reduced to 15 per cent which hi tn round figures would amount to an abatement of duty dut to the amount of per an annum annum num The British works of art Im Imported Imported imported ported Into the States were val valued valued 1 at about half the French imports and about double to those of Italy The British concession of ot free samples for commercial travelers Is similar to that made to Belgium Nov 10 1906 and requires the deposit of the amount of duty or a bond for the same me as a preliminary to the free tree admission of the samples the duty or bond to be withdrawn at the pleasure of the trav tray traveler traveler eler upon leaving the country The samples are arc it is stated to be used solely for the of obtaining or ders and not for f r sale Of course course it lt itis Itis is well known that In most cases there Is no duty Imposed upon goods im imported Imported imported ported Into Great Britain so the value of the new arrangement will be found In the privileges conferred upon agents for houses dealing In beer tobacco confectionery preserves and all forms of or sugared su ared conserves i Presidents Powers Limited Great Britain wished to obtain much more than the meager concession made in the arrangement Just completed but butI it I was found that the president was strictly limited in his powers by the law to cases where reciprocal and equivalent concessions are made in fa favor favor vor of ot the United States Having given the United States free admission for all other forms of goods within its power the British government had nothing to offer in this case but free tree drummers samples The British mer filer merchants merchants chants wanted an abatement of duty on spirits spirit which would have been of immense value to the Scotch whisky trade but the president could not re regard regard regard gard the abatement of the restrictions upon drummers samples as at all aU equivalent and he ho was obliged to con eon confine confine fine his concessions to that noted |