No. 451.
Mr. Manning to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, April 12, 1887.
(Received April 20.)
No. 114.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of
your No. 70, of date March 30, relative to the alleged discrimination
against the United States carrying trade, and have to say in reply that no
correspondence has taken place between the Mexican Government and this
legation since Mr. Mariscal’s note to me of February 21 until to-day, when I
addressed him a note, copy of which I herewith inclose.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 114.]
Mr. Manning to Mr.
Mariscal.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, April 12,
1887.
Sir: Calling your excellency’s attention to
your note of February 21 last, touching the complaint of F. Alexandre
& Sons, of New York, relative to the rebate of 2 per cent. of
customs duties granted by the Government of Mexico to the Spanish
Transatlantic Steamship Company, which you therein advise me you had
referred to the department of public works in order that it might
furnish you certain information, I beg to remind your excellency that
none has as yet been furnished me.
I now have to advise your excellency that I am just in receipt of a
communication from the State Department at Washington, in which occurs
this sentence:
“The Department would greatly regret to find that any differential
customs duties were actually enforced in Mexico which would constrain
this Government to execute the statutes applicable to the case of any
discriminating duties or impost being ascertained to exist in a foreign
country to the disfavor of our carrying flag and the favor of the flag
of such country or of any third power.”
Your excellency will see from the tone of this extract that my Government
is very much in earnest in effecting a satisfactory solution of this
matter.
I have, etc.,
