Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United
States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President,
December 5, 1881
No. 214. Mr. Evarts
to Mr. Noyes.
[Telegram.]
Washington, February 19,
1881.
If decree has issued prohibiting importation of American meats, present
regret of this government, and protest firmly if it seems appropriate to do
so.