FOREIGN RELATIONS.

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LIST OF THE PAPERS WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR CONTENTS.

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Pitkin

1891. Jan. 5

(telegram).

88

Same to same

Jan.

8

2

5

94 Mr. Pitkin to Mr. Blaine..... Feb.
96 Mr. Blaine to Mr. Pitkin..... Feb. 13

100 Mr. Pitkin to Mr. Blaine..... Feb. 23

102

Same to same

Feb. 26

111

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Pitkin............ Mar. 30

124

Tax on foreign life-insurance companies doing
business in the Argentine Republic: Instruc-
tions to protest against levying exceptionally
large tax.

Same subject: Confirms the above telegram and
incloses, quoting from it, a letter dated De-
cember 22, 1890, from the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society of New York.

Same subject: Incloses copies of the protests
from the legation.

Port charges on vessels putting into Buenos
Ayres in distress: Transmits the complaint
of the Natioual Board of Marine Underwriters
and instructs to investigate and remedy.
Political condition: Incloses the proclamation
declaring the state of siege and an account of
the attempt on ex-President Roca's life. Re-
ports the suspension of two newspapers and
his visit of congratulations to Gen. Roca.
Tax on foreign life-insurance companies: In-
closes reply of the foreign office, placing the
remedy in the federal supreme court, and an-
nounces that by decree, inclosed, the tax has
been in part removed, and that a proposition
has been made to the companies to place them,
under certain conditions, on the same footing
as domestic companies.

Same subject: Acknowledges, with approval,
Mr. Pitkin's No. 94.

Mr. Pitkin to Mr. Blaine...... May 13 Address of the President of the Confederation to

the Argentine Congress: Reports its salient
statements.

Port charges on vessels in distress: Transmits
verbal denial that they are levied and assur-
ance that they will be refunded if proved to
have been collected.

Tax on life-insurance companies Incloses copy
of the executive decree promulgating condi-
tions on which the Equitable Life Assurance
Society is assimilated to the domestic compa-
nies, and letter of thanks from the manager
of said society.

Port charges on vessels in distress: Transmits
letter of minister of Hacienda accompanying
report of customs official, denying that they
are collected except in cases of regular entry.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

2

5

9

9

10

11

12

1890.

125 Mr. Grant to Mr. Blaine...... Dec. 21 Passport application of Mr. Rudolph Nejedly,

born in New York of a naturalized citizen
who came back to live in Europe one year
after obtaining naturalization. Explains that
he has no intention of returning to the United
States, and submits the course adopted by the
legation in similar cases, viz, refusal of the
passport.

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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-Continued.

No.

From and to whom.

Date.

110 Mr. Blaine to Mr. Grant.....

1891. Feb. 26

May 25

June 16
July 15

Aug. 1

Aug. 6

Same subject: Discusses the case above pre-
sented and declines to direct the issuance of
the passport.
Assisted immigration: Incloses copy of his note
to the foreign office in the case of the sending
to New York of Nikolaus Bader, a criminal,
by the authorities of Stauzach.
Same subject: Approves his note above men-
tioned.

Same subject: Transmits and comments upon
the reply of the foreign office, attempting to
show that Bader's case did not come within
the categories prohibited by the immigration
laws.
July 27 Citizenship of Mr. Mazel, born in Washington,
D. C., while his father was minister of the
Netherlands to the United States, his mother
being an American citizen: Will it be suffi
cient for him to return to the United States
and renounce his allegiance to the Queen of
the Netherlands to be admitted a citizen of the
United States?

Free port of Trieste is to be by act of the Reichs-
rathi, divested after July 1 of the franchise
conferred in 1719 by Karl VI.

Assisted immigration: Instructions to address
a note to the foreign office saying that Bader
having been returned, the incident is termi-
nated.

Aug. 10 Citizenship of Mr. Mazel: Expresses the opin
ion that he being the son of a foreign diplo
matic officer comes under the statute gov
erning the naturalization of aliens.

Aug. 18 Military service of Alfred Janowitz, a natural-
ized citizen: Relates his interview with Mr.
Janowitz, to whom he promised protection if
molested by the military authorities, and re-
ports his subsequent successful intervention
in his behalf. Incloses correspondence with
Mr. Janowitz and the foreign office.
Aug. 20 Military service of Julius Kranz, a naturalized
citizen: Reports that after being deprived of
his passport and ordered to appear before the
board of enrollment he was, through the inter-
ference of the legation, relieved of all liability
to military duty and allowed to visit his par-
ents. Incloses correspondence in the case.
Assisted immigration: Incloses a copy of his
note to the foreign office in the case of Niko-
laus Bader and of the reply thereto.
Same subject: Approves the note transmitted
in the above.

5 Hog products: Incloses a copy of the ordinance
permitting the importation of such products
as are accompanied with certificates of inspec
tion, and of the accompanying note from the
foreign office; presents his congratulations.

BELGIUM.

Sept. 11

Dressed beef imported info Belgium: Incloses,
with instructions to make appropriate repre-
sentations, a letter from the honorable Secre-
tary of Agriculture protesting against the
requirements of the Belgian Government that
carcasses should be imported with the lungs
attached.

Same subject: Reports that the foreign office
replies that the requirements complained of,
being provided for by law, can not be modi
fied by the Government, but that as a token of
good will, the quarantine against stock has
been further reduced to three days; incloses
correspondence, decree relating to quarantine,
and copy of the law governing the importa-
tion of carcasses.

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BRAZIL.

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40

40

41

41

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42

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE LEGATION OF BRAZIL AT WASHINGTON.

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