FOREIGN RELATIONS.

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204

Mr. Hanna to Mr. Bayard.. Feb. 27 Immigration to the Argentine Republic from 1857

Apr. 11

229 Same to same

Apr. 30

233 Same to same

May 18

Same to same..

to 1888: Statement of the percentage of nation-
alities of immigrants; intention of the Govern-
ment to limit immigration; hardship and em
barrassment of indigent immigrants; misleading
information concerning public lands, and opera-
tions of speculators; inducements to immigra
tion, and employment offered immigrants by a
private land-owning corporation.

Apr. 7 Immigration to the Argentine Republic from Eng-
land, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Germany:
Its influence on agricultural development; Gov.
ernment aid to immigration by payment of pas
sage money; statement of amounts; subsistence
and transportation afforded immigrants by Gov-
ernment after their arrival in the country.
Steam-ship facilities: Necessity for ships flying
the flag of the United States; great volume of
European immigration to the Rio de la Plata;
rare appearance of the United States flag on
vessels in port at Buenos Ayres.
Trade with Europe: Great volume of it; editorial
article from the Buenos Ayres Standard by Mr.
Mulhall, the Argentine statistician, on trade
with England inclosed; Argentine exportation
of corn and wheat to European markets; tabu
lar statements of trade with Germany, Italy,
France, and Belgium inclosed.
Mail facilities between the United States and the
Argentine Republic: Insufficient and ineffi-
cient; complaint by commercial community
against the "Direct United States Mail Line";
remedies for the evil; delay of mails at Rio.
Marriage laws: Delays and embarrassments
among citizens of the United States in Argen
tine Republic; civil marriage law of April 1,
1889, inclosed.
Colonization: Indirect; of vacant lands by con-
cessions of large tracts to colonization societies
not satisfactory; projected law for the division
of 750,000,000 acres in the territory of Chubut
into small holdings for direct sale to agricult-
ural families at low prices; probability that
the project will receive legislative sanction.
Public debt of the Argentine Republic: Difficulty
encountered in making exact statement; tabu.
lar statement by Mr. Pedro Agote, president of
National Public Credit Department, made for
use at Paris Exposition, inclosed; increa e of
debt; chief factor in its growth the free bank.
ing law of November, 1887; working of the law
described.

May 20

26 Mr. Vilas to Mr. Blaine

Aug. 12

278 Same to same..

Sept. 18

12 Mr. Pitkin to Mr. Blaine.... Nov. 20 Marriage laws: Reference to Mr. Hanna's num

ber 235 inclosed; new civil marriage law, in
volving certain repeals and amendments.

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2

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6

7

16

17

18

XXXVII

115 Same to same..

Feb. 5

Mar. 2

84

128

127

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Lawton... Mar. 22

Mr. Lawton to Mr. Blaine... Apr. 13

21

Mr. Adee to Mr. Grant..

25 Mr. Blaine to Mr. Grant.

37

Death of the Crown Prince: Call of the minister
at the office of foreign affairs, and delivery of
the message of condolence from the President
and people of the United States; succession to
the crown.

ister.

Death of the Crown Prince: Incloses Count Kal-
noky's acknowledgment by note to the min-
Banishment of Hugo Klamer from Austria-Hun
gary: A naturalized citizen of the United States,
born in Austria; correspondence with foreigu
office, and police decree inclosed; a temporary
suspension of sentence against Klamer asked
for.
Banishment of Hugo Klamer: Approval of the
minister's course, and direction to continue it
by guarding the rights of Mr. Klamer.
Banishment of Hugo Klamer: Further correspond-
ence with the foreign offico inclosed; action on
appeal for suspension of sentence against Kh-
mer; re-assertion by the minister of the princi-
ple involved, and the construction given by
United States to the treaty of 1870 on natural-
ization.

Sept. 19 Complaint of Frank Xavier Fisher, a naturalized
citizen of the United States, on account of arrest
and imprisonment at Nolfurt, Austria; recita-
tion of Mr. Fisher's allegations; instruction to
the minister to ask investigation by Austro-
Hungarian Government; copy of Mr. Fisher's
complaint and of letter from the consul at St.
Galle, inclosed.

Oct. 8

Banishment of Hugo Klamer: Reference to for-
mer correspondence; petition of Klamer and
Consul General Jussen's No. 301 inclosed, re-
porting his action; recitation of Klamer's alle-
gations and of the action of the Austro-Hun-
garian foreign office; provisions of the treaty
of September 20 1870.

Mr. Grant to Mr. Blaino..... Oct. 10 Complaint of Frank Xavier Fisher: Incloses note

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Mr. Blaine to Mr. Grant

44

Oct. 28 Mr. Grant to Mr. Blaine..... Nov. 27

to Count Kalnoky requesting thorough investi-
gation of the facts in the case.
Complaint of Frank Xavier Fisher: Approval of
the minister's action.
Emigration: Swindles perpetrated upon the peas-
antry of Galicia and Hungary emigrating to
the United States; incloses article from Trem-
den Blatt and two articles on the subject from
the Vienna Weekly News.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE LEGATION OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AT WASHINGTON,

Death of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungry,
Archduke Rudolph: Instruction by cable to
United States minister at Vienna instructing
him to express condolence of the President and
people of the United States to the Emperor
and the nation of Austria-Hungary; Mr. Bay-
ard's personal sympathy expressed.
Death of the Crown Prince: Acknowledgment
and thanks of the Chevalier de Tavera.
Death of the Crown Prince; Expression of the
gratitude of the Emperor, the Gov. rument, and
the people of Austria-Hungary for message of
condolence; incloses Count Kalnoky's note on
the subject to Count de Crenneville.
Death of the Crown Prince: Mr. Bayard's ac-
knowledgment and assurance that the Presi-
dent has been advised of the contents of Count
Kalnoky's note to Count de Crenneville.
Emerich Haziel: His re-embarkation, as a con-
tract laborer, by the collector at New York, on
the steam-ship Trave, for Bremen; incloses letter
of B. G. Ashley and four affidavits to show that
Emerich Haziel is not a contract laborer; pay-
ment of his passage by George Haziel, his
brother, amounting to $124.50, of which sum
repayment is suggested.

Emerich Haziel: The reference of the matter to
the Secretary of the Treasury.