Mr. Wharton to Mr. von Mumm .
Washington , September 10, 1891 .
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d instant, by which this Department is advised that the interdiction pronounced by the Government of Germany in 1883, for sanitary [Page 529] reasons, against the entry of swine, hog meat, and sausages of American origin has been raised, provided those products shall be officially examined in accordance with the law of the United States approved March 3, 1891, and the regulation issued by the Secretary of Agriculture March 25, 1891, providing for necessary certificates.
In reply I desire to express to you, and through you to the Government of His Majesty, the gratification of the President, not only that this long-pending question has been satisfactorily settled, but that the decree for the removal of the prohibition has been issued by the German Government so promptly after the agreement to that end had been reached.
Accept, etc.,
Acting Secretary.