San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-14
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New York, June 1.-THE Herald to-
day says:
DR.. c. w. Chancell, formerly United
States Consul at Havre, France. who
returned on the Champagne, was ask
ed last night about the denial by the
French government for the accuracy
of the report he submitted to the State
department on wine making in
France" He said:
The report, was submitted nearly
two years ago, is exact and passed un-
challenged until recently when the
French government, fearing the state
ments in regard to the fabrication of
artificial wines would lead to increased
duties on French wines, under the pro-
posed new. tariff bill, sought to fore
stall such action by raising a diplo-
matte controversy in which was
charged by M. Hanotaux, French min
istre of foreign affairs, that certain
statement contained in the report were
'scandalous in character and without
foundation The State department
never communicated with me on the
subject nor asked me for any explana-
ton and / should have been in entire
ignorance of the incident if 1 had not
been informed of it by Mr.. Eustis, then
United States ambassador at Paris
THUS 1t will be seen that 1 was
charged, judged and practically ceus-
ured by the State department solely
on ex-parte statement of the French
government without being accorded
opportunity to rebut the accusation,
and when / wrote to the department
nj init nf IA ir1it yyh
had been done me by the refusal to
put in evidence the proofs and author
tiles which 1 had voluntarily furnished
and which were absolutely conclusive
of the correctness of every statement
made, I considered the incident as
closed"
WAS there any special object or rea-
son for making such a report?"
YES" was the reply. There were
two controlling circumstances which
induced me to take up the subject and
discuss it in an official report. First L
knew from personal observation and
through writings of French authorities
that articles Of wines and brandies,
alike disastrous to the health and
lives of the laboring classes in France,
were being fabricated in enormous
quantities and that much of the So
called wine was exported to the United
States.
las proof of the deleterious proper
ties, it has been shown that while pure,
natural wine has few or no fermenta-
tive microbes, artificial wine contains
13, 900 colonies per cubic centimetre of
microscopic and bacteria of the most
deadly character
I'm the second place, 1 was aware Of
the fact that American cattle had been
rigidly excluded by a decree of the
French government, from France on
mere pretext, and could see no rea-
son why our government should not
retaliate by excluding French wines,
when their dangerous nature were
made known through an official report
to the State department.
This is probably the first time in
the history of diplomacy that an Off
cial report of representative of one
government has been submitted to a
representative of another government
for revision and criticism