No. 249.
Mr. Hoppin
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
London, October 12, 1883.
(Received October 23.)
No. 632.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception
of your instruction No. 675 of the 1st instant, addressed to Mr. Lowell, and
to transmit a copy of the recent correspondence between this legation and
Lord Granville in relation to the subject of that dispatch.
On the 5th of September last we received your dispatch No. 653 of the 20th of
August last. This was accompanied by a copy of Mr. French’s letter of the
1st of August, and by Messrs. Law and Thayer’s report to Mr. Folger of the
21st of July last, but by no other documents.
On the 6th of September last Mr. Lowell addressed a note to Lord Granville,
inclosing a copy of the report of the Treasury Cattle Commission.
On the 12th of September last Lord Granville acknowledged the reception of
this note.
I have to-day received your instruction No. 675 of the 1st instaut, inclosing
a copy of Mr. French’s letter of the 1st of August last and of the report of
the Treasury Cattle Commission, both of which had already been forwarded in
your No. 653. I also transmitted a copy of a further letter from Mr. French,
dated on the 20th of August, 1883, and copies of the circulars of the 8th of
June and of the 4th of August last.
I have lost no time in calling Lord Granville’s attention again to this
subject, and I beg to inclose a copy of all the recent correspondence in
relation to it.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 632.]
Mr. Lowell to Lord
Granville.
Legation of the United States,
London, September 6,
1883.
My Lord I have the honor to acquaint you that I
have recently received from Mr. Frelinghuysen a dispatch inclosing a
letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, forwarding a report on
the subject of the foot-and-mouth disease made by the United States
Treasury Cattle Commissioners, in which it is stated that the disease
does not prevail among the cattle of the American herds.
In compliance with Mr. Frelinghuysen’s instructions to bring the
substance of the report to your lordship’s attention, I have the honor
to inclose a copy of it herewith.
I have, &c.,
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[Inclosure 2 in No. 632.]
Lord Granville to
Mr. Lowell.
Foreign
Office, September 12,
1883.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your note of the 6th instant, respecting the freedom of the
cattle in the United States from foot-and-mouth disease. I have not
failed to communicate your note to the proper department of Her
Majesty’s Government.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 3 in No. 632.]
Mr. Hoppin to Lord
Granville.
Legation of the United States,
London, October 12,
1883.
My Lord: Referring to Mr. Lowell’s note of the
6th of September, and to your lordship’s reply of the 12th of September
last, in relation to the existence of foot-and-mouth disease among the
cattle of the United States, I have the honor to acquaint you that a
dispatch has been received to-day at this legation from Mr.
Frelinghuysen, in which he incloses a copy of a letter to the Department
of State from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, referring to a
statement alleged to have been made recently in the House of Commons by
Mr. Dodson, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, to the effect that the
American quarantine system in reference to cattle diseases gives no
security against the conveyance of the disease by men attached to
quarantine stations and by articles taken out of quarantine yards, and
that the system takes into consideration only the animals themselves.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury calls attention to the report of
the Treasury Cattle Commission of the 21st of July last in regard to the
foot-and-mouth disease among the cattle of the United States, which,
while it admits that this disease did exist in herds of cattle imported
from Great Britain, emphatically denies its present existence among
American cattle.
A copy of this report was inclosed in Mr. Lowell’s note to your lordship
of the 6th of September last.
I have the honor to forward herewith a copy of this letter from the
Acting Secretary of the Treasury, dated on the 20th of August last, of
the letter from the same officer dated on the 1st of August last, and of
the two circulars accompanying the former communication; and I beg
leave, in compliance with Mr. Frelinghuysen’s instructions, to invite
the special attention of Her Majesty’s Government to the stringent
regulations governing the quarantine of cattle which are established by
those documents.
I have, &c.,
