Done at the city of Santiago the 7th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1892. (L.S.) PATRICK EGAN. PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States, respecting a Commercial Arrangement between the United States of America and Honduras.-Washington, April 30, 1892. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, pursuant to section 3 of the Act of Congress approved the 1st October, 1890, entitled "An Act to reduce the Revenue and equalize duties on Imports, and for other purposes," the Secretary of State of the United States of America communicated to the Government of Honduras the action of the Congress of the United States of America, with a view to secure reciprocal trade, in declaring the articles enumerated in said section 3 to be exempt from duty upon their importation into the United States of America; And whereas the Consul-General of Honduras at New York has communicated to the Secretary of State the fact that, in reciprocity for the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in section 3 of said Act, the Government of Honduras will, by due legal enactment, as a provisional measure, and until a more complete arrangement may be negotiated and put in operation, admit free of all duty, from and after the 25th May, 1892, into all the established ports of entry of Honduras, the articles or merchandize named in the following Schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States : Schedule of Products and Manufactures from the United States which the Republic of Honduras will admit free of all Customs, Municipal, and any other kind of Duty. 1. Animals for breeding purposes. 2. Corn, rice, barley, and rye. 3. Beans. 4. Hay and straw for forage. 5. Fruits, fresh. 6. Preparations of flour, in biscuits, crackers not sweetened, macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin. 7. Coal, mineral. 9. Hydraulic lime. 10. Bricks, fire-bricks, and crucibles for melting. 11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones, and building purposes. 12. Tar, vegetable and mineral. 13. Guano and other fertilizers, natural or artificial. 14. Ploughs and all other agricul tural tools and implements. 15. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing machines; and separate or extra parts for the same. 16. Materials of all kinds for the construction and equipment of railroads. 17. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of telegraphic and telephonic lines. 18. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas. 19. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wharves. 20. Apparatus for distilling liquors. 21. Wood of all kinds for building, in trunks or pieces, beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles, or flooring. 22. Wooden staves, heads, and hoops, and barrels and boxes for packing, mounted or in pieces. 23. Houses of wood or iron, complete or in parts. 24. Waggons, carts, and carriages of all kinds. 25. Barrels, casks, and tanks of iron for water. 26. Tubes of iron and all other accessories necessary for water supply. 27. Wire, barbed, and staples for fences. 28. Plates of iron for building purposes. 29. Mineral ores. 30. Kettles of iron for making salt. 31. Sugar boilers. 32. Moulds for sugar. 33. Guys for mining purposes. 34. Furnaces and instruments for assaying metals. 35. Scientific instruments. 36. Models of machinery and buildings. 37. Boats, lighters, tackle, anchors, chains, girtlines, sails, and all other articles for vessels, to be used in the ports, lakes, and rivers of the Republic. 38. Printing materials, including presses, type, ink, and all other accessories. 39. Printed books, pamphlets, and newspapers, bound or unbound, maps, photographs, printed music, and paper for music. 40. Paper for printing newspapers. 41. Quicksilver. 42. Lodestones. 43. Hops. 44. Sulphate of quinine. 45. Gold and silver in bars, dust, or coin. 46. Samples of merchandize the duties on which do not exceed 1 dollar. It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles named in the foregoing Schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose. And that the Government of Honduras has further stipulated that the laws and regulations adopted to protect its revenue and prevent fraud in the declarations and proof that the articles named in the foregoing Schedule are the product or manufacture of the United States of America shall impose no additional charges on the importer nor undue restrictions on the articles imported; And whereas the Secretary of State has, by my direction, given assurance to the Consul-General of Honduras at New York that this action of the Government of Honduras in granting freedom of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Honduras, and in stipulating for a more complete Reciprocity Arrangement, is accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said Act: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the above-stated medifications of the tariff laws of Honduras to be made public for the information of the citizens of the United States of America. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of April, 1892; and of the Independence of the United States of America the 116th. By the President: JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. (L.S.) BENJ. HARRISON. SIR, PREVIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. Blaine to Mr. Kimberly. Department of State, Washington, January 5, 1891. I DESIRE to bring to your attention the fact that the Congress of the United States at its last Session enacted a Law, of which three copies are inclosed herewith, in which provision was made for the admission into the United States, free of duty, of the following articles: All sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard in colour, molasses, coffee, tea, hides, and skins. In section 3 of this Law it is declared that these remissions of duty were made "with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing" those articles; and it is provided that whenever the President shall be satisfied that reciprocal favours are not granted to the products of the United States in the countries referred to, "he shall have the power and it shall be his duty" to impose upon the articles above enumerated, the products of the countries concerned, the rates of duty set forth in section 3. The Government of the United States, being earnestly desirous of maintaining with Honduras such trade relations as shall be reciprocally equal and mutually advantageous, I am directed by the President to request you to bring the above-mentioned provisions of this Act of Congress to the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of that Republic, and to express the hope that such steps may be taken by that Government as shall result in the establishment of commercial relations between the United States and Honduras on a permanent basis of reciprocity, profitable alike to both. Since the Republic of Honduras is not at the present time represented at this capital, it will be well for you to suggest to the Minister for Foreign Affairs thereof, when addressing him upon the subject, that his Government specially accredit some person to consider with me this important question. I am, &c., S. Kimberly, Esq. JAMES G. BLAINE. SIR, Mr. Baiz to Mr. Blaine. Consulate-General of Honduras, New York, I HAVE the honour to address you for the purpose of stating, in reply to the invitation which, by your direction, the Minister of the United States accredited to Honduras addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of my Government, dated the 22nd January, 1891, that the Government of Honduras, in reciprocity for admission into the United States, free of any national, municipal, or any other duty, of the products of Honduras enumerated in section 3 of the Tariff Law passed by the Congress of the United States, approved the 1st Getober, 1890, offers to admit into Honduras, free of customs, municipal, or any other duties, on and after the 25th May, 1892, the articles contained in the Schedule attached hereto, provided they are the product or manufacture of the United States. It is proper for me to inform you that admission into the ports of Honduras, without payment of any duty whatever, of the aforesaid products and manufactures, will be provisionally granted pending the conclusion by my Government with yours of a more comprehensive Commercial Arrangement that shall be mutually advantageous to both countries, to which end my Government will receive the necessary powers from the Congress of the Republic at its next Session. My Government, however, reserves full liberty to adopt the laws and regulations necessary to protect its customs revenues against fraud and contraband, under the claim of introducing as American articles and merchandize proceeding from other countries; but it will not impose any additional charge upon the importers nor undue restrictions on articles introduced. If the authority which my Government shall ask from Congress is granted, new negotiations shall be opened without delay; and in case a definitive arrangement is reached, it shall be put in force in the Republic of Honduras within sixty days after its completion, and shall supersede the provisional arrangements which I now propose. It is understood that, should the Congress of Honduras take no action on the subject before its adjournment, the Government of the United States may terminate the provisional arrangements now under consideration by giving the Government of Honduras thirty days' notice in advance; and if no definite arrangement shall have been made before the 1st January, 1893, the Government of the United States may likewise declare the said provisional arrangement terminated. I hope that his Excellency the President of the United States will recognize in the proposition which I now make you a proof that my Government earnestly desires to enlarge the commercial relations between the two peoples, and that it has accepted the Law of Congress of the United States as an expression of friendly and just reciprocity. In submitting the foregoing, it is pleasant for me to renew to you the assurances of my respect and consideration, and remain, &c., J. G. Blaine, Esq. JACOB BAIZ, Consul-General. By authority received this day by cable. J. B. Schedule of Products and Manufactures from the United States which the Republic of Honduras will admit free of all Customs, Municipal, and any other kind of Duty. 1. Animals for breeding purposes. 4. Hay and straw for forage. 6. Preparations of flour in biscuits, crackers not sweetened, macaroni, vermicelli, and tallarin. 7. Coal, mineral. 8. Roman cement. 9. Hydraulic lime. 10. Bricks, fire bricks, and crucibles for melting. 11. Marble, dressed, for furniture, statues, fountains, gravestones, and building purposes. 12. Tar, vegetable and mineral. 13. Guano and other fertilizers natural or artificial. 14. Ploughs and all other agricultural tools and implements. 15. Machinery of all kinds, including sewing machines; and separate or extra parts for the same. 16. Materials of all kinds for the construction and equipment of railroads. 17. Materials of all kinds for the construction and operation of telegraphic and telephonic lines. 18. Materials of all kinds for lighting by electricity and gas. 19. Materials of all kinds for the construction of wharves. |