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Show REBATE ON CUST0MSTN WHITE WHISKY CASE TOKIO. Feb. 25. The Japanese Government Gov-ernment today passed the famous white whisky claim by handing to United States Minister Griscom the draft for $115,000 in favor of the American Trading Trad-ing company. The claim arose from a customs decision de-cision rendered in 1900, holding an Importation Im-portation of 8000 barrels of whisky to be alcohol and increasing the duty from 40 to 250 per cent. Japan at first rejected the claim for repayment of the amount alleged to have been overcharged by the customs department, but Mr. Griscom on arriving arriv-ing at Tokio renewed it and pressed the case with firmness. His success In securing payment is very gratifying to American commercial commer-cial men, and a settlement of the matter mat-ter is regarded as another mark of the friendliness of Japan for America, |