What is thought of these methods may-be gathered from the following. extract from a letter recently sent. by the Paris Chamber of Commerca to the U.S. Consul-General: "We have been obliged to protest very strongly against the American law which claims for agents of the U.S. Treasury the right to verify. our exporters' declarations by requiring them to produce their books and give particulars of cost You state that these investigations are very seldom made, and that no information is ever revealed by your agents, No Government can answer for complete discretion on the part of its servants, but even if absolute certainty existed on (his Point, and even if these investizations' were fewer than they have been, our Chamber cannot admit that foreign agents should ever be allowed to do what we should nat. tolerate on the part of French officials. Even if those practices were not attended by the drawbacks we have pointed out, our dignity as free people would forbid ut" allow foreign agents to subject French merchants to inquiries American merchants cevainy Would not permit from French officials."
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