Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.
Buenos Aires, October 10, 1905.
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Sir: I have the honor to report that on the 5th instant the Senate budget committee reported on the pending tariff laws, and the following day was indicated for the discussion of the same. I inclose the usual number of copies of the substitute reported by the committee for article 26 of said law, referring to the repair parts of agricultural machines, which in translation reads as follows:
Repair pieces of whatever metal and material and of whatever form and nature which show themselves to be such and the application of which to the machines for which they are destined can be proven, whether comprised in the tarifa de avaluos (list of valuations for the tariff purposes) shall enjoy the benefits accorded in this law to whole machines.
There shall not be considered as repair pieces nor as forming an integral part of a machine belting, of whatever material it may be, fixed (unadjustable) wrenches, or so-called English (monkey-wrenches), asbestos packing, hand oil cans, bolts, nuts, carriage bolts, pins, (metal pins for fastening machinery), belt hooks, washers, spring cotters, chains, pulleys, faucets (or cocks), saws, rings, with or without incisions of cloth or metal (steam packing cut to size,) eveners, (carriage) poles, and filters of whatever nature.
The importers here express themselves as satisfied with the law in this form and believe it will be approved by the Congress and the Executive. They also believe that it will receive a liberal interpretation and prove entirely satisfactory in practice.
I am, etc.,