Show SOME RESUlTS OFDINGILY AUQ Will Cripple the Foreign Trade of the United States PROTESTS RECEIVED FROM FOREIGNERS New Law an Effective Commerce Destroyer Representatives of Foreign ITations Intimate That There Will Be a Diminished Demand For American GoodsItaly Turkey England Switzerland Greece and Argentine Argen-tine Have Piled ProtestsIrish Petition to McKinley Washington Aug In a late number of the Congressional Record containing speeeies on the tariff conference report Is a speech by M N Johnson of North Dakota in which he makes compilation of the protests received by the state from foreign countries against duties I Imposed in the Dingley tariff bill while that measure was pending Some of thes protests have been made public others have been referred to the commIttees com-mittees of congress having the tariff bill in charge and little or no attention has been paid to them Nearly all the communications revert to the commerce between the several countries and the United States They Insist that the new tariff bill retards commerce and some of them intimate that it will result in decreasing the demand de-mand for American goods They make the reports for the benefit ben-efit of the commerce between the countries Some suggestions are made that the injury to be done the United States on account of the Imposition of the proposed duties will be considerable There were three communications from Baron Fava the Italian ambas saJor The first protests against the duty on Italian oranges and lemons which he says would prove very disastrous dis-astrous to the Italian trade in these fruits A second communication from Baron Fava is against the proposed duty on candied fruits which the manufacturers of Leghorn say would destroy their market in the United States In a third communication Baron Fava speaks of a letter of the secretary 01 agriculture In which he refers to a ministerial decree of Italy relating to meats from the United States This deree required a consular vise for certificates cer-tificates of origin issued by American authorities and accompanying shipments ship-ments of meat Baron Fava informs the state department that the question has been submitted for examination to the zootechnic and episootic board The ambassador adds His majesty however desires to perform a friendly act toward the United States by frankly forewarning it that it could in no case be Induced to modify the provisions nnnt o nor In tVio nfnrPQQIfl r1pf rAA In n f cordance with the desire expressed by the department of agriculture if the United States should persist in retaining retain-ing in the new customs tariff the exorbitant ex-orbitant duties to which I have the honor to call your excellencys attention in my preceding written and verbal communication TURKEYS PROTEST The Turkish government protests against the duty of 1 per pound on crude opium and says that the tariff cannot be for the purpose of protecting protect-ing i a home industry He thinks the revenue of the government would suffer suf-fer but says that in case it did not the cost of the drug usedfor medicinal purposes would be greatly increased to consumers DISASTROUS TO SWITZERLAND J B Pioda minister of Switzerland says that the new tariff will be disastrous disas-trous to three principal industries of Switzerland Swiss embroidery goods silks watches and clocks He says his government appeals to the senti ments of friendship and equity of its sister republic He submitted what tIle Swiss government desired as follows That the bolting cloth remain on the free list and that there be no increase in the rates on silk goods silk ribbons embroideries Swiss watches and watch movements MACKEREL AND HERRIN11 Sir Jullan Pauncefote sent two brief communications one in December 2S06 informing Mr Olney that the fishery fish-ery board of Scotland protested against the high rate on cured herring and that at the request of the Marquis of Salisbury he represents to the United States government that the high rates i which the Dingley bill Imposes on salt I mackerel and other cured fish would cause grave injury to the fishermen on the west coast of Ireland This note Is dated June IS 1S97 > V The protests of the German ambassador i ambas-sador and the Austrian minister against the countervailing duty on bounty export sugar have already been published I The consul general of Greece pro tests against the rate imposed upon Zante currants and raisins Fiftythree Irish members of the British parliament join in a letter to President McKinley saying that the duty on cured mackerel and herring caught on the west coast of Ireland will work a great hardship to the Irish fishermen and praying the president to secure a modification of the rates in the Dingley bill The protest of Argentine against the duty on hides and wool and of Japan against a number of duties has already been published China made a protest on lines similar to those of Japan |