No. 52.
Mr. Putnam
to Mr. Blaine.
Legation of
the United States,
Brussels, June 20, 1881.
(Received July 4.)
No. 73.]
Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 45, I have the
honor to send copy of my last note to the foreign office, and of its reply,
received today.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 73.]
Mr. Putnam to Mr.
Frère-Orban.
Legation of the United States,
Brussels, June 11,
1881.
Monsieur le Mintstre: I had the honor, in a
late communication, to state that I had the pleasure of forwarding to my
government the recent letter of Mr. le Ministre of the Interior
concerning American pork, and that I felt sure it would be received with
great satisfaction.
I have now the honor to state that I am in receipt of a dispatch from the
Government of the United States which states that “The President is much
gratified by the exhibition of the candid spirit revealed by the letter
of His Majesty’s minister.” It also instructs me to make known to His
Majesty’s minister the satisfaction with which my advisement of the
action of the Belgian Government on the subject matter of my note has
been received.
In view of the exceptional circumstances in which that branch of our
commerce finds itself in some European quarters, without, as my
government believes, any justifying reason, the broad commercial spirit
of the Belgian Government is specially grateful to the people and
Government of the United States.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No.
73.—Translation.]
Mr. Frère-Orban to
Mr. Putnam.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of the letter which you had the kindness to address me in
regard to the manner in which the action of the government of the King
relating to the entrance into Belgium of American pork has been
appreciated at Washington.
I at once placed these communications under the eyes of the minister of
the interior.
I avail myself of this occasion, Monsieur le Ministre, to thank you for
the interesting information you have been pleased to give me relative to
the experiments made to determine whether or not trichinose existed in
the provisions in question.
I have, &c.,
