Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1886

No. 360.
Mr. Bell to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States.
The Hague , June 7, 1886. (Received June 21.)

No. 147.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that it appears that before the adjournment of the States General the Government deposited in the bureau of the Second Chamber a reply to the representations contained in the petition addressed to the Second Chamber by the agriculturists from various provinces requesting the imposition of an import duty on cereals.

In the reply which has recently been printed, the Government maintains that the imposition of the duty demanded would be contrary to the general interests of the state.

I have, &c.,

ISAAC BELL, Jr.