A history of the United States for schools . had wholly or par-tially abolished, such as those on tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, and hides, mightbe revived by the presi-dent against any countrieswhich should impose un-fair duties upon any agri-cultural products of theUnited States. The occa-sion for making use of thisprovision was for the presi-dent himself to led, in the course of1891 and 1892, to treatiesof reciprocity with Spainand Great Britain (for their possessions in the WestIndies), also with Germany and Austria-Hungary, withBrazil, and with several Spanish American repub
A history of the United States for schools . had wholly or par-tially abolished, such as those on tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, and hides, mightbe revived by the presi-dent against any countrieswhich should impose un-fair duties upon any agri-cultural products of theUnited States. The occa-sion for making use of thisprovision was for the presi-dent himself to led, in the course of1891 and 1892, to treatiesof reciprocity with Spainand Great Britain (for their possessions in the WestIndies), also with Germany and Austria-Hungary, withBrazil, and with several Spanish American republics. In the winter of 1889-90 there was assembled atWashington a congress of delegates from the UnitedStates, Hayti, Brazil, and fourteen independent SpanishPan-Ameri- -^^^rican States, for the consideration of ques-can Con- tions relating to the improvement of business gress. . ? relations between all American countries. This was called the Pan-American Congress.^ Its most The Greek word Iafi means A//. Such a meeting was attempted at. BENJAMIN HARRISON. § lyz. RECENT EVENTS. 1865-1899. 465 important step was recommending the permanent adop-tion of arbitration for the settlement of all disputes thatmight arise between any nations of North and SouthAmerica. It was not long after the Pan-American Congressthat trouble threatened to break out between the UnitedStates and Chili. In the course of a brief civil war inthe latter country there was a riot in the streets of Val-paraiso, in which two sailors from a United States warship were killed and others were maltreated. Aftersome exchange of words between the two governments,the affair was amicably settled. The absence of any law for protecting foreign authorsagainst the piracy of their writings had long been re-marked as a grave defect in the Federal legislation ofthe United States. Without such a law the . ^ Interna- book of any English author, or the translation tionaiof any book written in a foreign language, ^^^^might be prin
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