| Show if f PERILS OF p II I I The Loss of Many Vessels 1 Feared BLOODY KEXTIJCKY TRAGEDY Mexican Trail Hendriclcs 1jport In WB on blnltonA Salt Take Lady Injured Ii i Mexican Trade February 27The repOrt WvaiNbi Jrt of Special Agent Evans of the Treas pOrt Department on the operations if 1 trade between the United States the Mexico as the result of his investi under instructions from the gations Department has been received by Sec retarvMcCulloch It sets forth that the Mexican customs regulations arc difficult of comprehension and unneces than seventeen ri1v onerous no less aarily copies being required to be rs or presented papers on direct importation and a t consular pre inVoice casting 1446 being re Samd when the value of goods exceeds i tured 10 Irregularities in papers from whatever cause render the importer liable to ever charge of double and in some cases a treble duty and petty fines imposed the omission of minor words and nuWelUng Everything seems to bee aThA hv be-e customs officers to retard business trains carrying goods being de byed and permits and stamps being required at almost every stage of im Dortation while the number of examinations exami-nations being required after the goods have passed the frontier and paid duty are extremely annoying independent of the delay On the question ofreci procitv Evans says It is urged that Congress would relieve the country from the gloom and suffering caused by I the bjsmess depression by adopting re I iprocityrelations with Mexieo and thus of American open a channel for the sale products Disappointment in my judgment awaits such expectations Of the twentyeight articles to be admitted free from Mexico under the treaty fourteen fare now free under the general tariff law Of the seventythree articles to be introduced into Mexico without duty fifty are now free except a charge for package or bulk duty and twentythree compose articles for which there appears to be no market mar-ket in Mexico |
