196.6/1104
The Danish Minister (Brun) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 12.]
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Referring to previous correspondence relative to the bill (S. 2945) of Senator La Follette, relating to the payment of advance wages and allotments in respect of seamen on foreign vessels, to wit: my letter to you of June 12, 1928,9 and the reply from Mr. Secretary of State Kellogg of June 20, 1928,10 I beg to state as follows:
You will remember that this bill was passed by the Senate on April 24, 1928, but was not passed by the House before the close of the 70th Congress on March 4 [3], 1929.
It consequently failed, but, as you are no doubt aware, has been reintroduced in the now sitting 71st Congress by Senator La Follette as S. 314.
As the text of this new bill is identical with the former bill, I beg leave to say, that the misgivings with respect to the effect of such legislation if adopted on the trade between Denmark and the United States, which I submitted on behalf of the Danish Government in my letter to you of June 12, 1928, are equally applicable to the new bill S. 314.
[Page 1009]I would therefor be greatly obliged to you, if you could see your way to advise the appropriate Committees of the Senate and the House of the present Congress accordingly.
Believe me [etc.]
- Foreign Relations, 1928, vol. i, p. 836.↩
- Not printed.↩