The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-06
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS.
VIGOROUS INsIsTENCE in A sTRUG-
GLE WITH FRANCE.
Facts Now Coming Out in Cores
pOndence Now Being Published
Which Cannot But be Appreciated
By All Americans.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-NOWhere ir
the whole of ths correspondence which
the United States had during the yeaI
with the countries of Europe, which
correspondence is just now becoming
public property through advance sheets
of tine United States red book, is there
exhibited a more vigorous insistence on
the rights of America than in the
course of the negotiations with France
respecting the exclusion by the govern
ment of that country of American cat
tie. The president himself dictated a
small but most important portion of
the correspondence in it's earlier stages.
and the concluding chapters contribut-
ed by Secretary Olney
SWEEP AWAY LIKE CoBWEBS
the specious explanations put forward
to justify the exclusion and make it
plain that retaliation may be expected
If the unjust restrictions are not abat-
ed or justified. In March of last year,
just after the fact that the exclusion
order had been issued was made known
10 the state department through Mr..
Vignaud, our charge d'affairS at
Paris, Secretary Gresham cabled that
reasons for its issue; that the secre-
tary of agriculture has asserted our
cattle were entirely free from disease
and that, Sin view of these state
merits, the president directs that you
inform the French government that the
United States regards this prohibition
as a needles and unfriendly interior
ence with an important branch of
legitimate trade, and that you re-
monstrate. against its enforcement.
The charge was
APPARENTLY DISMAYED AT THE
STRENGTH
of the message and sought to delay it's
delivery until an opportunity could be
had to consider the propriety of modi-
flying it, on account of other facts
entering into the negotiations, but
another cable message from Secretary
Gresham three days later left him no
recourse, and when he did submit it,
even the French minister of foreign
affairs who happened ITO be in then
as now in office, admitted that the
protest was a little fiery"
Negotiations at length ensued in
the course of which Ambassador
Eustis, by instructions of the state de-
ment for statement of it's reasons for
the issue of the order of exclusion and
showed that these reasons were not
based on actual bona fide cases of dis
ease in any American cattle, that had
entered France but apparently were
founded on q desire to exclude Ameri-
can cattle from competition with the
French farmers. Finally Secretary
Omey
SUMMED UP THE POSITION.
of his government in a letter dated
French argument was based almost
entirely upon newspaper publications;
tina this government had a just ground
for complaint on that score, in view of
the care it had exercised to secure the
inspection of the cattle exported and
finally winding, UP by an intimation
that if the French government persist
ed in regarding it as necessary for the
protection of their cattle to exclude
the herds of THE United States the |
same process of reasoning would make !
1t equally essential to the protection of |
the cattle of the United States that |
French cattle, especially the Norman !
breed, which is now attracting so
much attention here, should be ex-
excluded from the United States.
From the correspondence, which |
closed soon after this passage, 1t APP |
pears that the secretary was prevented |
from making good this implied threat,
owing to representations that new
French ministry would be more favor
able to the United States.