Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Sherman to Mr. Porter.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 19, 1897.

Am advised that material increase in duty upon lard and sausages will be discussed by Chamber of Deputies to-morrow (Saturday), with possible attempt to make such duties prohibitory. The treatment of pork and pork products is under consideration here in pending reciprocity negotiations, and such action as is apprehended might be a serious embarrassment. You will use good offices as energetically as discretion may allow to prevent proposed increase, bearing in mind previous instructions on same subject.

Sherman.