Show to abolish the tl free cell sell I 1 special F Cr chronicle service I 1 I 1 jan 4 senator reagan w i 3 preparing a bill to introduce cintr 0 I 1 in the satiate enate on Blon monday day v chih ie Is likely to create as much disturbance ancel in nour our relations with mexico as secretary winsome Win dome doms recent decision on the importation of leid lead ore mr air reagans Ile agane bill will authorize anth onze the secretary of the Tres treasury eury to suspend th the 0 law which allow allows the transportation of goods bound from europe to mexico ico in bond through the united state until the government of mexico shall el all abolish what is known ast as the hezma zona libre or free zone along the border under the law laws of our sister republic there is a strip of country along the tile rio grand abutting upon the united states into bich goodsman goods good may be imported without the payment of duties and it has become a smug tiers resort much to the commercial disadvantage honest traders on this tide bide of the boundary A merchant can purchase his goods in L europe drope have them shipped in bond from new york to paso del nore norte Ne negra gratt laredo and other cities on the mexican Alex ican side of the line and there have them delivered without the payment of any duty then by watching his chance he lie can smuggle goods back int into 0 the united states fit atee ry by carte carts on f afons or oa on pack i ak a k mules and undersell the honest deal ers era who have paid the regular cus clis tm house cha charged ch argei this free zone has been the subject of volume upon volume of diplomatic diploma tic correspondence and the prevailing opinion is that the mexican Alex ican government would be quite iba dad flad as vie to lave it abolished for it is the means mean 8 0 of losing ing millions of dollars to ite i treasury in custom customs taxes every year but the fact is that the smugglers are so strong and go rich on the wo RIO grande i rande and so many men of power ill fill influence are involved with them that president I 1 di 1 as az fears a revolution will follow and that tile northern tier of states included within the free irce would be likely to attempt bion ision if their merchants were compelled to pay duties on imported goods |