The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-24
in GEN ERAL.
General Grant Rushes Into Prln
Agaip.
Governor Click aud President Arthur
ina Pickle.
News Notes of Every KIND,
GRANT and Romero

AfAnA anu
Nav YoRK Jan. 23.-G0nsral Graz. De,
.ent tho illoWlng letter TO the Washington
Evening Star ralsuya to the psndluE NsNi.
can 'raity'
Nav foAE ClIY. January y, lti.-Lililr
Wa hiuston Evening star
Ia yonr i,sns oi Saturday, hosdod fns
Mexican Treaty tbs Ssnsis Dsclire' 90
Ratfy "A. PfesTut,n end tho fo lpSlng
psrnsraph: why Some Senators Voted
hRains.it A mem Der OF congress aid %
- STAR reporter to-day thai there were some
votes, seycra o. them at leas., east rR1ins-
tina Mexican treaty IN tho senate ilr taiH
rsasop. You ace, Grant and Romero we're
mariners Ia Mexico, aud hey
oblnlned eons large concessions
from that government IA relation
to railroad and s,2smbont llHes. Now,
Grant IA United States commission and
Romero, Mexican cOmmissioner, ami born
OF tnsm we're oIooadinsly snriou' 10 naye
the treaty ratified. IL 0M SUSPICIOUS
really. 1 can't say that It WAS moro ,usu
suspicion, that these two men Werl pfri
rsrs ia business and had bls prlVa'e utter
ssts IA that treaty; that II would Az them
ia developing mouopolies they wee il'tf-
80 ed ln ana ~ no real ground could bu
discovered IN thu trcaiy-nuthint potent
enough 70 outweigh the suspicion why
ae,cral senator, whom We Know uI c2u'
cluded ,he gAiss, plan would be t' Yo''
against it,"
The statement that Grant and Rl1,ro
were partners Ia Mexico and that thul 90
tAined large CONCESSIONS from thai govern
mont in relation 20 steamboat and railway
line. IL wholly with. NJ fOu1dStior. Nj
Romero tui nyself never had In our l'Y~s
my pecuniarv transactions or business
trsntgclious Of any kind. since Me close
of our rebellion aud the expulsiss OF EsN-
Z A.a haa.
sympathy b,luesn Mr.. Romero n. my
self our views bsing concident ~ 20 t4e
relations that ought 10 exist between Mexico
and tho United State. We have DO devoted
much tric 10 bringing about mare intieiato
relations bsi Veen the iwo Tepubiics Sld sn-
tirely er.tuitously on our own part. iey-
self have no peCuniary interest In anT itp-
proyeaents which are taking place IL NeI-
leo, with American cApitsl. but les great
interest in their success.
Ia the paragraph quoted ABOVE you say:
1T was suspected and really cant SAY 10
wss more THAI suspicion shat these tro
men who were partners M business hAu olS
! private iut,res, Ia the treaty; that u wou.d
aid them "a developing monopolir' they
want, etc. AS stated above, Mr.. Romero
and mv.ciI ara not partners III anything.
| We have, neither Of us,-I certainly have
not any more interest In the retlhcia0u 81
/ that treaty than any other private Gtiz'u
OF my country. ! believe MS ralhcAlinh
would DO great step towards ea,npllsh
ing these relations between two contiguous
republics which ought TO exist ard which
would be to their mutual advantage.
| might say hero that in some arguments
which | have read in periodicals. OF the
time. | have seah urged against the treaty
the fact thst Cuba was So near Mexico mat
~ would be Oh easy matter 10 shtp their
sugar to that country snd re-sbip nom
there, thu, evsding duties. OF course
| stringent laws would be passed 10 make
sach acts dan erous, but nsids from any law
there ara two answers 10 that oDJecuOD OF
| the treaty, either Of which is In itself con-
elusive az against thai Objection, viz: Frat
Mexico hA, a higher tariff upon sugar than
the United Ststes has, aud they havs no
provision IN their laws for rebato duties
where imported articles ARE exported. INC
second and conclusive answer Is, that ~ 10
ONLY crude sugar which ~ admitted Ireo
under the treaty, and tho difference De
tween Cuban raw sugar and Mexican raw
sugar IL 80 great, IL would not even require
an expert to tell the difference between
thtm oven II he was blind-ioldsu. | write
this from q sick room, aud by dicia'ipn,
,auG therefore cannot 90 INTO uetalls, as
would IL abls TO sat up and write myself. I
| might add however, that whila hlyc
spent thousands ~ dollars OF my own /
money, and a great deal OF time to sdvsncn
the development of Mexico by United /
States capital. and by American influence, /
| have not one dollar interest 10 /
all that has been done, ana
no pecuniArV interest whatever /
IN tho country except that am one OF the /
rubscrisers to \ railway which lis wholly
u tbs south OF the City of MEXICO and the
success OF which is dou Niful in these times
when II is so difficult to raise cspi 81 FOR any
such enterprises There IL no steam boa /
charter or other monoDOy IA when nae
tho slightest pecupiary interest. My
whos int rest Is in developing those rela-
ton. which believe oughttp exist between
contagious countries, and particularly
those OF like intI itutions, and which IN the
Gaze OF Mexico think mora important Dc
cause Of her great undeveloped resources
which must make her soon commercial
state OF very great importance.
Worry truly YOURS.