St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-23
The Sentiment of France as
Expressed by Chambers
of Commerce.
Prohibitive Duties Of the Law
Meeting With General
Disapproval.
Correspondence Of Won Mum
ster and the German
Emperor.
Bluffs by the Kaiser Have No
Deterrent Effect on
Frenchmen.

PARIS, July 22.-The Associated Press
correspondent here has been making in
quiries of the chambers of commerce IN
France as to the present feeling concern
ing the Mckinley tariff and as to
whether this feeling will affect the
French exhibit at Chicago. The vice
president of the chamber of commerce
of Algiers said the chamber over which
he presided passed resolution declar-
ing that the new tariff law tended to
render very difficult, if not impossible,
all trade between France and the
United States.
The secretary of the chamber of COM
MERGE of Rheims said: "For the present
at least. the Mckinley bill is an obstacle
to the participation of our manufacture
ers in the Chicago exhibit. This fact is
clearly brought out in the reply which
our chamber made when the MIN
lister of commerce asked recently
for our views In regard to
the Chicago exhibition. The text of that
reply is as follows: On account of the
almost prohibitive duties which are laid
on our manufactures at American ports
we cannot take the initiative in prOmot-
ing an exhibit at Chicago nor ask our
merchants and manufacturers to take
part in the fair. But if, in reasOna-
BILE length of time, q friendlier spirit is
shown by the American republic for our
productions, this chamber will then be
ready to Second5the minister's efforts
Such is the sentiment in this region and
such it's expression" The president of
~ Ln g rf iY
writes: Our manufacturers and mer-
chants would have liked to see de-
velOped
The Commercial II Citations
the United States and France, but they
consider that the Mckinley bill has
checked all advance. 1t cannot be de-
MED that the new tariff has produced
most unfortunate impressions through
out our commercial world. 1t is to be
feared, therefore, that the Chicago eX-
here that it would have had if that un-
fortunate bill had not been passed"
The general secretary of the chamber
of commerce of St. Etienne writes ''St.
Etienne has always had very important
commercial relations with the United
States, but their relations are continue
ally diminishing or are being more and
more difficult on account of the excess
i've tariffs levied upon our ribbons and
silks. 1t is not probable that many of
our manufacturers Will send to Chicago.
Our chamber, however, will do its best
to induce our manufacturers to exhibit"
The president of the chamber of COM
merce of Bordeaux sends as his answer
the letter sent some time ago to the
minister of commerce, in which occurs
this clause: For many years we have
been calling attention to the danger
sure to arise in our commercial relations
with the United States from the abso-
lutely unjust prohibition of their salt
meats. We are not surprised at the re-
taliatOry measure of the Mckinley
tariff" The vice president of the Mar
settles chamber of commerce sends a
letter originally addressed to the min
lister of commerce in which the McKin-
ley tariff is warmly condemned and then
adds: "At the request of the minister
of commerce the chamber has made
known through the newspapers that
an exhibition will be held at Chicago"