Nothing is more disadvantageous to a community, its progress and peace, than unsettled land titles.  This bill, however, as I have said, is so radical and seems to me to be so indefinite in its provisions that I can not give it my approval.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

PROCLAMATIONS.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 3 of the act of Congress approved October 1, 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 Salvador 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 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Salvador at Washington 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 Salvador 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 February 1, 1892, into all the established ports of entry of Salvador the articles or merchandise named in the following schedule, provided that the same be the product or manufacture of the United States: 

  SCHEDULE OF PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURES WHICH THE REPUBLIC OF SALVADOR
  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.

   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.  Plows 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.