Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.
Berlin , June 23, 1899 .
Sir:
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On the afternoon of the 22d, in accordance with an Imperial decree (dated on board the Hohezollern, Kiel, June 21, 1899), the Reichstag adjourned until November 14 next, * * * having held 99 sittings during the first part of its first session (lasting more than six months) of the tenth legislative period since the establishment of the Empire.
Among the measures of interest to us, which have thus gone over till the autumn, is the bill for the general microscopic inspection of meat (Fleisch-Beschau-Gesetz), in regard to which, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no committee report has been printed for distribution among the members of the Reichstag.
I have, etc.,