Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Mr. Partridge.

Department of State,
Washington, March 23, 1893.

No. 21.]

Sir: I have received your No. 4, of the 8th instant, reporting, in compliance with Department instruction No. 5, of the 8th ultimo, in regard to the Venezuelan decree imposing a differential duty of 30 per cent on merchandise from the United States or Europe, transferred at Curaçao for the Western ports of the Republic of Venezuela.

In view of your report, the Department is disposed for the present to await further developments.

I am, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.