Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-19 | Page 1 | Shipping Goods under Consular Seals

Shipping Goods Under Consular Seals WASHINGTON April IS Secretary Foster was asked today about the proposed changes which it is said are contemplated in the present system of transportation through the territory of the United States of goods shipped over Canadian roads under consular seals The secretary replied the department did not want to injure the business of Canadian roads a single bit The principle which the department wanted to have established in the matter was tho protection of American revenues The department would treat these Te tese goods precisely as thou h they entered at New Yorkor any other American port destined for inland custom houses The department depart-ment proposed to make as few exactions and t interfere with traffic just as little as possible consistent with tho stated wih purpose