The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-20

The Delegates 10 the isorIin Conference
End Their I.abors The Agreement
SiGned-Ssme of Its Most Important

End Their D.abOrs The Agreement
Signed-Ssme of Its Most Important
Provisions.
BERLIN, June 1.-THE agreement nego.
tiatcd by the commissioners to the Samoan
conference for the settIoment of affairs in
SaInoA was signed by all the members Of
the conference Friday afternoon Amer
lea having abandoned her principal objec-
tions to the agreement previously arrived
at the plemnotentiaries had only to make
unessential notifications In the wording Of
the draft Of the treaty.
The draft guaranteed an autonomous ad-
minfstraiion OF the islands under the joint
control OF Germany and America. England
acting us arbitrator in the event of differ
ences arising The Samcans are to elect
their own King and viceroy and to be rep
resented in o Senate composed Of the prin-
cipal chiefs and chambers elected
by tho ,teople Samoa is to have the
right Of lcvying duties or every kind The
treaty also stipulates that the Germans
losses. special court will be appointed to
deal with the land question.
The Americans made their adhesion con-
ditional upon the ratification OF the treaty
by the United States Senate. The status
quo will, therefore, obtain In Samoa until
December.
Mr. Phelps will carry the treaty to WASH
ington.
Messrs kasaon, Bates and Phelps cor
daily thanked Count Herbert Bismarck
for the courteous manner in which
they had been treated aud they
warmly praised the skill and the
tact with which he had presided over tho
deliberations OF the conference. Sir Ed
ward Malet thanked Count Herbert on be-
half Of the English delegates. Count Her.
bert, in reply, said he hoped they had
reached q final solution OF the difficult
question.
WASHINGTON, June 15. The agreement
between England, Germany and the United
States on Samoan affairs was signed ut Ber-
lin ut o'clock iii the afternoon II will
not be made public until confirmed by the
Senate.
LONDON, June 1.-THE Posts Berlin cor.
respondent says:
1.-The Samoan treaty arranges for the rcsto-
ration OF Malietoa and for the appointment OF
German and American advisers to the X ng,
with an Englsh counselor TO adjust . balance.
The American delegates have the utmost conf.
dencc that tho treaty will be ratified by tho
United States Senate"
The Berlin correspondent OF the Times
learns that the gist Of the Samoan agree
ment is that Malietoa shall be reinstated;
/ that the control Of affairs shall be left main-
| " to the Samoans; that questions touching
the life or property of foreigners shall be
subject to the decision Of resident judge,
American, English or German. and that the
importation OF liquor and fire -arns shall be
restricted
| LONDON, June l5.-The Times, comment
/ ing ON the Samoan agreement, says:
! Perhaps IL IS y, we'll that Bismarck has been
made to real ze that where American interests
| are concerned the American Government II
| very little affected by many Of those consider.
! atoms which restrain the action OF the
European governments with whom he is more
accustomed to deal and with whom he can fol
this very reason deal more easily. The Times
! intmales that Germany will think twice beiNre
| she provokes collision with America