JU

Oats ... .

9 fin

Puise

Other kinds of grain not specially mentioned ....

Barley

Rape-seed, turnip-seed, poppy, sesame, pea-nuts and other oleaginous products not specially mentioned ....

Agricultural productions not otherwise designated . .

r ree.

Horse-hair, raw, hetcheled, boiled, dyed, also laid in the form of tresses and spun ; bristles, raw bed-feathers .

Free.

Hides and skins, raw (green, salted , limed , dried), and stripped of the hair for the manufacture of leather

Free.

Lumber and timber :

(a) Raw or merely rough-hewn with axe or saw, with

or witouth bark; oaken barrel staves ....

(b) Marked in the direction of the longitudinal axis, or

prepared or eut otherwise than by rough-hewing ; barrel staves not included under (a) ; unpeeled osiers and hoops ; hubs, felloes and spokes . . , .

planed boards ; sawed cantle-woods and other ar-

Wood in eut veneering ; unglued, unstained parts of floors

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Articles.

Rate of duty per 100 kilograms.

Butter, also artificial butter

Meat, slaugthered, fresh, with the exception of pork. Pork, slaugthered , fresh, and dressed meat , with the ex

ception of bacon, fresh or prepared

Game of ail kinds (not alive)

Cheese, except Strecchino, Gorgonzola and Parmesan . . Fruits, seeds , berries , leaves , flowers , mushrooms , vege tables, dried, baked, pulverized, only boiled down or salted, ail thèse products so far as they are not included under other numbers of the tariff; juices of fruits berries and turnips; preserved without sugar to be

eaten ; dry nuts

Mill products of grain and puise, to wit, ground or shelled grains, peeled barley, groats, grits, flour, common cakes

(baker's products)

Residue, solid, from the manufacture of fat oils, also ground Goose grease, and other greasy fats such as : Oleomargarine , sperfett (a mixture of stearic fats with oil),

beef marrow

Live animais and animal products not mentioned elsewhere;

also beehives with live bees

each . .

Horses

(a) Horses up to 2 years old.

(b) Coïts following their dams

Bulls and cows

>xen

Calves less than 6 weeks old . . .

Hogs

Pigs, weighing less "than 10 kilograms Sheep

Lamb3

Wool, including animal hair not mentioned elsewhere, as well as stuffs made thereof:

(a) Wool, raw, dyed, ground, also hair, raw , hetcheled, boiled, dyed; also curled

Free.

And whereas the Spécial Plenipotentiary of the United States has by my direction, given assurance to the Chargé d'Affaires of the German Empire at Washington that this action of the Government of the German Empire, in granting exemption of duties to the products and manufactures of the United States of America on their importation into Germany, is, accepted as a due reciprocity for the action of Congress as set forth in section 3 of said A et :

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, Président of

Commerce.

the United States of America, Lave causée! the above stated modifications of the tariff laws of the German Empire 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 first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixteenth.

[Seal.] Benj. Harrison.

By the Président:

James G, Blaine, Secretary of State.

Preceding Diplomatie Corresponde ne e.

Mr. von Mumin to Mr. Foster.

[Translation.]

Saratoga, August 22, 1891.

Mr. Plenipotentiary : Inasmuch as the inspection of meat intended for interstate commerce in North America and for exportation to foreign countries has been made compulsory by the act of March 3 , 1891 , and by the régulations of March 25, 1891, relative to the exécution of that act, the Impérial Government is happy to be able to announce that there is no longer any cause for maintaining in force the prohibition, promulgated on sanitary grounds in the year 1883, of the importation of hogs, pork, and sausages of American origin , provided that they are officially inspected according to the régulations of March 25, 1891, and accompanied by the required certificate. As soon, therefore, as the Government of the United States of America is able officially to inform the Impérial Government when the act of March 3, 1891, will actually take effect in the manner provided by the régulations of March 25, 1891, so that the guaranty which is contemplated by the aforesaid act shall appear confirmed, viz , that no meat dangerous to health shall be exported , the Impérial Government will take the necessary preliminary measures to abolish the German prohibition of importation which was promulgated May 6, 1883.

The Impérial Government, in making, this déclaration, bases its action upon the supposition that , after the abolition of the aforesaid German prohibition of importation, the Président of the United States of America will no longer have any occasion for the exercise, as regards the German Empire, of the discretionary powers conferred upon him by the Fifty-first Congress. (See section 3 of the tariff act of October I, 1890; public act No. 330, and section 5 of the act providing for the inspection of meat of August 30, 1890; also public act No. 247.)

The Impérial Government thinks that it has the greater reason for this assumption , since it is prepared to grant to the United States of America the same réductions in customs duties on agricultural products that

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have been granted by it (or still are so) to Austria - Hungary and other States during the negotiations for tbe conclusion of a treaty of commerce that are now being conducted by Germany.

Begging you to be pleased toin form me, in your reply to this note, whether tbe views expressed by the Impérial Government as regards section 3 of the tariff act of October 1, 1890, and section 5 of the act providing for the inspection of meat of August 30, 1890 , is correct, I await information from you as to the time when the act of March 3, 1891, is to be fully enforced in pursuance of the régulations of March 25, 1891.

I avail, etc.,

A. v. Mumm.

Hon. John W. Foster.

Plenipotentiary Extraordinary of the United States.

Mr. Foster to Mr. von Mumm.

Saratoga, August 22, 1891.

Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of to-day, in which you inform me that, when the Government of the United States shall be able to announce to the German Impérial Government that the provisions of the law of March 3 of the présent year and the régulations of the 25th of the saine month respecting the inspection of meat destined for interstate and foreign commerce have been practically put in opération, the Impérial Government will take the necessary steps for abolishing the order of March 6, 1883 , prohibiting the importation into Germany of hogs, pork, and sausages of American origin; and you further state that, in view of this déclaration and of the further fact that the Impérial Government is willing to grant to the United States the same tariff réductions in agricultural products which have been granted by commercial - treaty negotiations with Austria - Hungary or which may be granted to other countries, the Impérial Government entertains the expectation that no cause will thereafter exist for the Président of the United States to make use, as against the German Empire, of the powers conferred upon him by the Fifty-first Congress in section 3 of the tariff law of October I and section 5 of the meat inspection law of August 30, 1890.

It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that the inspection of meat, in accordance with the law of March 3 last and of the régulations of the régulations of the 25th ot the same month, is now, and for some weeks past has been, in practical opération under the direction and at the expense of the Government of the United States , and that meat so inspected will be ready for exportation to Germany on or before the Ist day of next month. Is is also very gratifying to me to give you the assurance, by direktion of the Président , that the contemplated action of the Impérial Government in abolishing the order of March 6, 1883, prohibiting the importation of hogs, pork, and sausages of American origin will remove the occasion for the exercite by the Président, as against the

Commerce.

German Empire, of the power conferred upon him by section 5 of the meatinspection law of tbe Congress of the United States of August 30, 1890.

1 am further directed by the Président to state that he accepts the action of the Impérial Government , in proposing to grant to the agricultural products of the United States the same tariff réductions, on their importation into Germany , as are granted to the similar productions of Austria-Hungary embraced in the commercial treaty recently negotiated with that Government or which may be granted by Germany to other countries, as a due reciprocity for the action of the Congress of the United States as contained in section 3 of the tariff law of October 1, 1890; and that, as soon as he shall be officially informed that the Impérial Government is prepared to decree the admission of the indicated products of the United States into the German Empire at the réductions of the gênerai tariff proposed, the Président will cause the necessary orders to be given to secure the continued free admission into the United States of the articles, the product of the German Empire , enumerated in section 3 of said law of October 1, 1890.

I remain, etc.,

John W. Foster, Spécial Penipotentiary of the United States. Mr. Alfonds Mumm von Schwarzstein, Chargé d'affairs of the German Empire.

Mr. von Mumm to Mr. Blaine.

[Translation.]

Impérial German Légation,

Washington, December 10, 1891.

Mr. Secretary of State; Referring to my note addressed to the spécial plenipotentiary of the United States of America , Mr. John W. Foster, dated at Saratoga, August 22, 1891, I bave the honor to transmit to you herewith a table , remarking that it contains the Austro - Hungarin tariff concessions granted by us, which, in accordance with my déclaration made on the occasion of the removal of our decree forbidding the importation of swine, pork, and sausages of American origin , likewise accrue to the benefit of the United States of America.

I have, moreover, the honor to transmit, for your information, a copy of the gênerai customs tariff now in force in the German Empire.

In the table are included not only the articles which , in the treaty of commerce concluded between the German Empire and Austria - Hungry, have received a réduction of duties, but also those articles in regard to which at agreement has been made, that is to say, in regard to which the German Empire, in accordance with its negotiations with Austria-Hungary, can not allow any increase of duties as long as the treaty of commerce remains in force with that country.

The treaty of commerce concluded with Austria-Hungary was laid

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before the German Reichstag on the 7th of this month , and , in case of its due ratification, the lst of February of the approaching year has been proposed as the date for its taking effect. I avail, etc.,

A. v. Mumm.

To the Secretary of State of the United States.

Mr. James G. Blaine.

fEnclosure in Mr. von Mumm's note.] Table.

Number of the German tarin7 now in force.

Articles.

General rate of duty here-

100 kilograms.

New rate of duty as per treaty, per 100 kilograms.

Marks.

From 1 b)

Free.

From 8 .

Flax , raw, dried , broken or he.tcheled, also

refuse portions.

Wheat

Rye

Oats

ie) . . .

Other kinds of grain not specially mentioned

Rape-seed, turnip-seed, poppy , sesame , pea-

nuts and other oleaginous products not

specially mentioned.

From 1) .

From f) .

Anise, coriander, fennel and carraway seed .

Agricultural productions not otherwise de-

Free.

From 11 a)

Horse-hair, raw, hetcheled, boiled, dyed ; also

Free.

laid in the form of tresses , and spun ;

bristles , raw bed - feathers.

From f) .

Bed-feathers , cleaned and prepared . . .

Free.

Hides and skins , raw (green , salted , limed,

Free.

dried) , and stripped of the hair for the

manufacture of leather.

From 13 a)

Free.

Lumber an timber :