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No. 89.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Morton .

Department of State,
Washington , July 28, 1882.
No. 152.]

Sir: The Department learned with regret, from your dispatch No. 191 of the 27th ultimo, that the pork bill had been defeated in the French Senate. Approving of your action in having an interview on the subject with Mr. Tirard, the minister of commerce, I need hardly add an expression of my desire that you shall omit no proper opportunity to urge upon the French Government the withdrawal of the objectional decree with reference to American pork.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K. T. FRELINGHUYSEN.