St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-08
The French Inclined to Saddle
It With an Exorbitant
Duty.
Partisan Butchers Are Now
Unable to Handle 1t at
a Profit.
Robert Ray Hamilton's Broth
err Satisfied Of the For
mep'S Death.
An Additional Display Of
Force Required at Bar
celOna.

PARIS, Feb. TN an interview to
day with Nj. Marie Albert Viger, one of
the deputies from Orleans, and reporter
OF the tariff committee chamber, M.
Viger said that he was satisfied that the
chamber would adopt the tax on Ameri
can pork. which the committee recon-
mends instead of a tax as urged by the
United States minister. Hon. Whitelaw
Reed. This question will come before
the chamber at the end of March. Mr..
Reed Informed the Associated Press
correspondent that the French butchers
proposed to the committee duty of 10
francs, saying that they were unable to
handle American pork at profit be-
yond that limit OF duty. NJ. Herris0n,
the minister of commerce in 1888, when
the decree was momentarily removed,
when Informed of the statement made by
NJ. Viger as to the IL francs duty. said:
ut means exclusion. have always felt
that the obnoxious decree would be re-
moved in this fashion. The deputies
are protection Jules Ferry, the
new chairman of the senate tariff COM
mittee. i'll an interview said, recently,
States had advanced the cause of
Protection i'm France.
The temper of the chamber and sem
ate. he added. is more in favor of pro-
lection at the present time than it was
in 1880, when the tariff was adopted.
Nj. Berger, director of the late eXposi-
ton in this city, but now member OF
the chamber of deputies. referring to
Itc foir Of hn Uni
said that he would be unable to go to
Chicago to give his advice to the fair
organizers, as M. Roustan, the French
minister at Washington. had urged
him to do. M. Berger added. however.
that the Associated Press correspondent
could tell the citizens of Chicago that
he was entirely at their disposal here.
Continuing, he SAID thatthe correspond
ent could also assure the ChicagOans
that when the invitation is received
favorable action upon tits certain, and
chat the chamber was sure to vote the
sum of money necessary for France to
he worthily represented at Chicago.
The only difficulty, according to M.
Berger, is the apathy Of merchants and
others who would be considered likely
to become exhibitors. The Mckinley
tariff act, according to the same gentle
merchants in regard to sending eXhib-
its to
The Chicago Fair.
''But," he added, 'the feeling is
changing. Our exhibition cleared over
9,0O0O 900 francs, and the United States
invitation should give in detail the
amount of space at tho disposal Of for
eigners, and the freight charges from
the seaboard to Chicago; in fact. all the
details which it is possible to procure,
in order to assist Frenchmen who may
contemplate becoming exhibitors in cal
culating the expenses of such ven
ture." 1t is belived that NJ. Berger will
be at the head of the French delegates
who will be sent to Chicago. He said
himself that he would like to 90. A
brother of the late Robert Ray Hamil-
ton was in this city Thursday last. He
will return to New York in short time,
having in his possession the evil
dence of a man who is at Pau,
to establish the identity of the
body which was found in the river in
the Western part of the United States.
This man was in the West at the time
of Mr.. Hamilton's disappearance, and
was present when the body was found.
He was personally acquainted with Mr..
Hamilton, and he states that there is no
doubt that body was that of the unf0r-
tunate man. The DeuX LOndes has pub
lished an article on the Indian question
in the United States, in which it Sc
verely arraigns the government of that
country for the policy it follows IN Its
dealings with the aboriglneS.