New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-24
THE SOUTH AMERICAN COMMISSION
REVIEW OF THE WORK DONE IN THE NINE
COUNTRIES VISITED.


WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.-The South American
Commissioners preparing their final report which
will be transmitted to Congress by the President along
with the eleven special reports upon the different
countries which have forwarded from time to time
to the Secretary State These reports being addressed
to be furnished for publication withou
violating official courtesy, but they have been briefly
foreshadowed by the dispatches sent fromme to timoto
the Secretary Of State informing him Of the progress OF
the Commission. The detailed reports are
volumnous and contain much valuable matter
They contain only tho views and tho conclusions or
tho Commission, but also statements taken py
senographer from nearly all the prominent merchants
engaged In the foreign trade In the nine countries
visited giving the result OF their observation and their
opinions to the best modes OF promoting trade be-
tween those countries and the United States 1t was
the practice OF the Commissioners at all the cities visited
to invite before them the prominent merchants who
were supposed to be friendly disposed toward the United
States and to from them all the information
possible relating TO the trade OF their own countries
with the United States and its commercial rivals, and to
ascertain from them the why our country had
so small share OF the South American commerce. In
quy also made to the resources Of tho country
the peculiar demands Of the markets. the character Of
goods most saeable and how they should be prepared
for shipment the systems under which trade was CON-
Quoted, and the means by which merchants OF other
countries had built the enormous business that they
enjoy
These statements furnish n vast fund OF knowledge
for the export merchants OF the United States they
cover all possible information that could be
gathered about the markets Of Central and
South America. AT each OF the countries
visited the Commission held Official con-
ference with the Governments, which were attended
usually by the Presidents and their Cabinets, aud GER
tain topics which the Commission was instructed to
submit behalf OF the United States were discussed
and opinions thereon obtained. These topics, which
were furnished in the instructions given by Mr. Fro
inghuysen, the former Secretary OF Sato bore upon
closer intimacy between the United states and the other
republics OF this hemisphere They embodied a series
OF propositions which accepted by every one OF
the Governments except Chill. Tho twelve reports
when viii be submitted TO Congress will make two
three thousand printed pages, including the informa
ton furnished by $50 or moro merchants
September Is, when II met for organization In New
York, has travelled $4,000 miles and officially visited
nine different countries. Colombia, Nicaragua ana
Honduras Omitted because OF revolutions BOLIVIA
could be visited because hor ports were bOokaded
and Paraguay and Brazil passed over because OF
Instructions by Secretary Bayard for the Commission
10 return by July /. The Commissioners reports that
great deal Of interest was shown everywhere IN soun
America In their work and oven IN Chill, where the
Government did not show much cOrdlhilty
the United Sta,es. the citizens were hpspi-
table and tho merchants did everything In their power
10 facilitate the Commissions work. In Uruguay ana
the Argentine Republic much DISAPPOINTMENT was eK-
pressed the visit necessarily shortened by
the Instructions from the Department All the railroad
aud steamship companies at honteyideo and Bueno
Ayres placed special trains and stesmers Rt the disposal
VI tho Commissioners that they might visit the Interior
OF tho country ana did not conceal their senslyenesS
because their generous offers could not be accepted