| Show t t. t t M I M u. u n t. t t r RECIPROCITY RECIPROCITY 1 t. t M MM I Mt f. f I I H- H 4 t t t After a long mId exhaustive e wrangle the House Republicans in in- conference yesterday agreed to a n complo compromise 1 se in the tIle matter of r reciprocity c with Cuba which if ratified by bythe I the tile House in Confer Conference nce will give 1 the the- theAd Administration Administration Ad Ad- Administration ministration practically a free hand haud to deal with the question According to the thc Associated Asso Asso- Press account of the meeting it adopted a resolution offered by Mr 11 Payne authorizing t the e President to negotiate a commercial agreement with Cuba for reciprocal and equivalent Conc concessions concessions conces- conces conces- conces by which the rates of duty sh shall ll be r reduced at least twenty per cent ad d valorem on all article artic J 1 imported from Cuba into the United States It also al alL I Iso so provides that the United States immigration ati i and exclusion laws law shall be enacted the by g gOvernment government govern gOvern- ment of Cuba as a preliminary to reciprocity If what the conference agreed to has been accurately accurately accurately ac ac- ac- ac reported under the provisions of th tb the Payne resolution the President would have hav J merto mer to fix the tile reduction of duties on Cuban ig r at any point he lie pleased not less than twenty ty per cent The Cubans declare that any concession concessi to fo them less than fifty riel pet per cent ent on sugar would m man an ruin to t the e island The Administration would hardly care to make Cuba a wilderness and so probably would grant something beyond twenty per pel cent The proposition that the Cuban government shall hall first enact our immigration and exclusion laws before receiving ng the thc benefits of reciprocity is isan isan isan an excellent one Should that be done and the laws enforced the sugar sugar- j producers of f this country need not fear the thc competition of Chinese cheap labor abor in that quarter If If- we know anything about the time cheerful and yielding disposition of those insular insular insular in in- sular people nothing would give them greater delight delight de de- de li light ht than to pass the acts required and then quarrel quarrel rel reI among themselves hes as to who should get rich quick through having charge of their enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- m ment t The business is not yet completed The rhe House has yet jet et to act and then the conference of the tWo Houses Bombshells are aie still liable to sprout in inthe inthe inthe the camp although the probabilities seem to be beI I that a a will get to the Whit Thit White House I within the next fortnight |
