The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-29
General Grant Di ctates q Let
ter in Answer to SANDER
Gus Rumors.
He Denies Any Pecuniary In
terest in the Ratification
Of the Treaty,
But Freely Elk presses Some
Very Good Reasons for
Its Adoption.

Its Adoption.
New York, Jan. 23.-General Grant has
sent The following letter to the Washington
Evening Star, relative to the pending
Mexican treaty:
New YORK CITY. Jan. ~.
Editor Washington Evening star:
In your Issue OF SATURDAY, headed "The
Mexican treaty; the senate declines to
ratify Al present" i lind the following
paragraph: "Why SOME senators voted
against it. A member of congress said To
Star reporter TO day: There were some
votes, several OF them at least,
cast against the Mexican treaty in the SEN
ate for this reason. You see, Grant and
Romero were partners In Mexico, and they
! obtained some large concessions from the
government in relation TO railroad and
| steamboat lines. Now Grsnt is q United
Sta'es commissioner and Romero is a Mex
icsn commissioner, and both OF them were
exceedingly anxious to have the treaty rat
flied Ii was suspected, and really can't
say it was more than suspicion, that these
two men, partners in business, had big
private interest In that treaty; that ii
would aid them in developing monopolies
they want, and as no real good could be
discovered in the treaty nothing patent
enough to outweigh this suspicion, why
several senators whom | know of con-
cluded the safest plan would be to vote
against il.
The statement that Grant and Romero
were partners In Mexico and that
they have obtained some large concessions
from that government In relation u rail-
road and steamboat lines, is wholly without
foundation.
Mr. Romero and myself never had in
our lives any pecuniary transactions or
business transactions of any kind.
Since the close OF our rebel
lion and the expulsion of Maximillisn
frem Mex CO there has been a warm SYM
psthy between Romero and myself, our
views being coincident as to the relations
which ought to exist between Mexico and
the United States, We have both devoted
! much time TO bringing about more inii-
mate rel4tions between the two republics
and II was entirely gratuitOus on our own
part L, myself, have no eecuniary inter-
est IN any improvement which has taken
| place IN Mexico with American capital,
nut feel a great interest in their success.
In the paragraph quoted above you
say: 1t was suspected, and really / can't
say II was more than a suspicion that these
two men-partners in business-had big
private interests in that treaty; that it
would aid them in developing the monOp-
olies they want etc. As stated above. Mr.
Romero and myself are not partners IN
any thing. We have neither of us, / GER
tainly have not, any more interest in the
ratification OF that treaty than any other
private citizen of NV country. | believe
It's ratification would be q great step to-
wards establishing these relations between
the two contiguous republics which
ought to exist, and which would
be OF mutual advantage. / IN ght say that
In some arguments which | have read in
periodicals of the time have been urged
To smend the treaty because of the fact that
Cubs was so near to Mexico that it would
be an easy matter to ship their sugar to
that country and re-ship ii from there, thus
eyading duties. OF course stringent laws
would be passed to make such acts danger
Gus, but aside from any law there are two
answers to that objection to the treaty
either Of which i'm itself is conclusive as
against that objection.
First, Mexico has a higher tariff upon
sugar than the United States has and they
have no provision in their laws for re-
bate of duties where the Imported articles
are exported.
Second, the conclusive answer is that IL
IL only crude sugar which is admitted free
under the treaty and the difference between
Cuban raw sugar and Mexican raw sugar is
so great il would not even require an ex-
10 alt kha -. -.
fe- hing clone II he was blindfolded.
| w.Itr this from Il sick room and by die
tstiou, and therefore cannot go into details,
as | wCnld II | was able to sit up and
srite myself, | might add, however, while
have spent thousands of dollars of NV
own money and great deal Of time to adj
vance me development of Mexico by United
States capital and by American influence,
| have not one dollar interest In all tn 4
mas been done, and no pecuniary interest
whatever In the country except that | sm
subscriber to q railroad which lies
wholly 10 the south of the Citv of Mex
icO, and the success of which is very
doubtful in these times times when il is SO
difficult To raise capital for any such en-.
terprises. There is no steamboat charter
or other monopoly in which hsve the
slightest pecuniary interest /; my whole In
terest is in developing those relations
which believe ought to exist between two
contiguous countries, and particularly those
of like institutions, and, in the case of
Mexico, think it more important, because
of her great undeveloped resources, which
must make her soon, from a commercial
sense, OF very great importance.
Very truly yours,
[Signed US. GRANT.