New-York tribune., 1900-05-29
OBSTACLES MET IN PARIS.
ACTION OF FRENCH AUTHORITIES
AGAINST PROPOSED AMERICAN
EXHIBITS OF CATTLE AND
DRESSED MEATS
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Washington, May 2S-The exhibits of the
United States at the Paris Exposition will be
less complete and interesting as well as less
valuable in respect to the extension of the de-
mand for American products in France than
would have been the case If so many obstacles
had not been placed in the way by the French
authorities This refers especially TO the pro-
posed exhibits Of American live cattle and also
OF dressed meats. It is learned from good
thority that after every preparation had been
made for a large and important exhibit nf 1--we
cattle the application to install It was either
refused outright the approval of il
saddled with many onerous conditions and
restrictions that the exhibit had TO be aban-
doned This was a severe disappointment to the
American cattle industry, whose representatives
had evinced so deep and active an interest and
made such elaborate preparations for it. well
as to the official representatives of the United
States in Paris. who strove earnestly but in vain
to overcome the obstacles thrown IN their way
by the French authorities. and that feature
of the proposed exhibit Of the United States had
to be abandoned.
Such may also he the fate of the proposed
exhibit of American dressed meat and meat
products. The United States Government off
cials also made elaborate and expensive prep
arations for an imposing exhibit of American
fruits and dairy and meat and meat products.
An elaborate and costly refrigeratng plant, with
all necessary apparatus and appliances. was in
stalled. ana 1t was not foreseen that any obsta-
cIes would be placed in the way of complete
and noteworthy exhibit until the French au-
thorites began to interpose objections and sug-
gest and impose hard conditions. which it may
be found impracticable fully to meet One of
the conditions, for example. was that fresh
dressed beef etc. should be exhibited only IN
the form of whole carcasses, containing the
heart. liver and other internal organs of each
animal. Inasmuch the exhibits were not 70
be sold or consumed in France without the con-
sent Of the authorities. and as no such condition
had been foreseen expected it at first seemed
to be one which could not possibly be complied
with but ii is understood that efforts are being
made by the United States officials TO do so. and
with some prospect of success. AS American
recently wrote from Paris. We came here to
show our goods and when a Yankee sets out
to do that he usually succeeds.
MAY REACT ON THE RECIPROCITY
TREATY
The apparent desire or willingness Of the
French authorities however, to impose condi-
tons onerous on important American prod
ucts as to make 1T extremely difficult or alto
gether impracticable to display them at the
Paris Exposition is exciting much severe and
caustc comment among the American produc-
who are interested. well among SEN
ators and Representatives in Congress who
have been made aware or the facts, and who
were among the first in advocating liberal ap
preparations by Congress to insure credftable
representation by the United States. Some of
them have yet forgotten that OF the
chief and most effective arguments employed
by the authors and advocates Of the pending
reciprocity treaty with France in favor of its
ratification has been that the Exposition would
give American producers and manufacturers
an opportunity to exhibit their wares and prod
ucts 70 the French people in the most attrac-
tive and excellent forms and under the most
friendly and favorable auspices, and that the
natural and inevitable consequence would be
largely increased demand for them in the mar
kets OF France. 1t is also known TO those who
are familiar with the facts In regard to the ex-
port trade Of the United States that the French
demand for American live cattle as we'll as for
American fresh meat products has been so small
as not TO cut any appreciable figure in the total
exports OF such articles to the countries of Eu-
rope. and that the smallness of the demand was
due wholly and solely TO the unfriendly IegisIa-
ton and governmental restrictions amounting
in some cases to absolute prohibition as in the
case of pork. until IT modified in the Harri-
son Administration through the efforts of the
United States Minister) imposed by France
AS a member of the Cabinet today remarked.
The fact is, the records show that the at
tttude Of no other country in Europe toward
American cattle and meat products has been so
uniformly hostile and exacting as that of the
two Continental republies-France and Swift
zerland. There is doubt that IL the discrin1i-
nations against some of the chief products of
the United States at the Paris EXPOSITION had
been foreseen anticipated by Congress-
smaller appropriations, or none at all would
have been granted to promote the success of the
enterprise.
ANOTHER HAZEL HEARING.