Ogden Daily Standard | 1900-05-04 | Page 1 | Imports from Turkey

IMPORTS FROM TURKEY OFFICIALS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A punishment washington may 2 it Is stated that a report had been prepared by the department part ment of agriculture in regard to our trade with turkey for the use of ithe state department in the settlement of questions pending between the two governments secretary wilson declined to discuss the subject but it was learned that the state moat Is in substance to the effect that while our meat exports to turkey amount to less than a year our imports of cottom etc from that country aggregate thousand of dollars per annum As a large portion of the imports consists of a 0 cotton necessary to the manufacture of certain hinds of goods and as this cotton cannot be obtained elsewhere it is thought to be apparent that our government according to this statement could not retaliate by excluding exports from turkey