Foreign Protests Effective.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 4, 1913:
No Favor to Imports in American Bottoms — British Objection In.
    WASHINGTON, May 3.— The British Government has joined other nations in protest against that provision of the Tariff bill, which extends a preferential differential of 5 per cent. on goods imported in American bottoms. One of the first acts of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the new British Ambassador, was to call the attention of the State Department to this provision as in violation of the existing treaty of trade and commerce between America and Great Britain.
    It is understood the Democratic tariff managers in the House, who were at first disposed to permit the Senate to deal with this question, being one involving treaty relations, which belong to the upper House, have recognized the force of the objections, which have accumulated from all quarters, and will themselves remove the objectionable provision by amendment when the administrative section of the bill containing it is reached.