Mr. Runyon to Mr.
Gresham.
Embassy
of the United States,
Berlin, December 17,
1894. (Received Jan. 5, 1895.)
No. 174.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch, No. 146, of
October 29 last, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a note,
F. O. No. 171, to-day addressed by me to the foreign office regarding
the existing prohibition of the importation into Germany of American
cattle and fresh beef. In this connection I deem it proper to inform you
that on the 23d ultimo I received from the foreign office a memorandum,
dated November 7 last, on the subject of “Texas fever among American
cattle imported into Germany at Hamburg,” of which I did not send a copy
to the Department, as I was informed that one had already been sent
through the German embassy at Washington.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 174.]
Mr. Runyon to
Baron Marschall.
Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, December 17, 1894.
F. O. No. 171.]
The undersigned, ambassador, etc., of the United States of America,
referring to his note of October 28 last, F. O. No. 153, and to his
conversations with His Excellency Baron Marschall von Bieberstein,
Imperial
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secretary of
state for foreign affairs, on the subject to which that note
relates—the prohibition of the importation into Germany of American
cattle and American fresh beef—has the honor very respectfully to
solicit the attention of his excellency to the fact that experts in
the cattle disease known as “Texas fever,” however they may differ
in theory in reference to it, all agree that it is not contagious in
northern climates between the 1st of December and the 1st of May,
and some of them hold that it is not contagious in such climates
between the 1st of November and the 1st of May; and they all agree
that frost puts an end to all chance of contagion from it. The
undersigned begs to be permitted to add that this complete
concurrence of the views of the experts on the subject would seem to
remove all ground whatever for apprehension as to the disease during
the winter and the greater part of the spring.
The undersigned begs to solicit his excellency’s attention to the
fact above stated, with a view to the removal of the existing
prohibitions.
The undersigned also begs to say that up to this time he has not been
favored with a reply to his request for the removal of the interdict
in regard to American fresh beef.
The undersigned avails himself, etc.,
