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Show UNFAIR TO UNITED STATES. Americans Complain Against Discrimination Dis-crimination by Cuba. HAVANA, Jan. 31. Tho United States, on bchnlf of tho American Cotton. Manufacturers' asKclntlon, hon protested ngalnst a ruling of the Cuban Trcusury department rendering Ineffective In-effective President McKlnloy's yrdcr of March 1C, 1S01, giving admittance) to Cuba at preferential pre-ferential ralcH.to cotton fabrics of certain weight and width manufactured by American looms. Urltl.ih manufacturers nro now given tho ramc rate. It In asserted. The American complainants point out that tho Piatt amendment amend-ment and tho frcner.il treaty obligate- Cuba to maintain and operate all tho rights acquired by vlrtuo of tho acts of tho Intervention Government. Gov-ernment. Importers of Porto Itlcan coffeo roasted in the United States allcgo unduo requirements of proof of the placo of origin of the coffee. The general complaint Is that lha Cuban customs' cus-toms' requirements aro unfair to United Stales Interests, notwithstanding thnt the workings of tho reciprocity treaty, while proving prov-ing highly favorable to Cuba, nro not particularly partic-ularly so to the United States, compared with the Interests of Europeans. Treasury officials hac denied to tho Associated Press that there la any unfairness ln nny of tho rulings of which Americans complain. |