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...efforts of Dr. BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers eight years before. Under the provisional president, Dr. Mendieta, legal elections were set for December, 1935 and to remove all suspicion of American interference in the internal affairs of Cuba, Dr. Mendieta announced he would not run for office...
...Grange in session at Sacramento voted a unanimous protest regardless of the fact that the reduced duty will apply only to relatively small quotas of cattle and cream imports. In Denver, Fernand E. Mollin, secretary of the American Livestock Association, declared that it did not matter how limited the tariff reduction was. Groaned he: "The damage is done! The precedent is established!" Senator McNary of Oregon Announced that he was leaving for Washington to lodge a protest with the President...
Secretary Hull could chuckle to himself that a good many of his concessions did no more than restore the pre-Hoover tariff, that many (notably lumber, cattle and potatoes) had been so limited by quotas to a tiny fraction of U. S. consumption, that they would have little if any unsettling influences. Moreover the articles which the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list included newsprint (on which the U. S. Press would never let a tariff be imposed) and a number of things of which the U. S. has far from enough (e. g. asbestos, cobalt, lobsters...
...farmers in general might carp a little that they had received few substantial gains but such gains were hardly to be expected in a treaty with an agricultural country. But Florida fruit growers, who have threatened to attack the reciprocal tariff law in the courts because of fruits and vegetables admitted under the recent trade treaty with Cuba, may now think twice since the new treaty betters their citrus fruit market in Canada...
...from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila, may prove the Islands' agricultural ruin...