The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-26
THE MORN NEWS
JFsrlELIsHED 1850. INcoRPoRArED 1885,
E9 j ii. ESTILL, President
GERMANY WANTS WAR.
~ AMERICAN VESSEL FIRED ON
OFF ZANZIBAR.

ora Of Her Masts Broken by tho Shot
Ora or TWO Of the Berlin Editors
.-,ora that Bismarck Had Better Go
Congressman Morrow Favors
very Decisive Method OF Pro-
cedure.
7r,sHtNeroN, Jan. 25.-Representative
,,.rr,v, Of California, who is chairman Of
4Lo subcommittee Of the House committee
f,raign affairs. intends to call the sub
,a,onittee together and get to work
=, the earliest opportunity. He says
-. views on Samoan affairs are
no.itive and have been made known
tbronob a resolution introduced by him
- +be House at the last session. The Statu
o,,o at the time the representatives, of the
3roited States, Germany and England met,
he savs. must be restored, and this would
,,oceesitate the replacement of King MaIei-
.oa in the position from which he was SO
,,ntustlv removed bv the German agents
ond sent to the Marshall islands, This step,
Wr Morrow insisted, must be preliminary
oanv further negotiations on the subject.
NAVAL PREPARATIONS.
Mr.. Herbert, chairman of the naval COM
,n;ftee of the House, has not yet received a
resnonse to his letter to Secretary Whitney
inviting suggestions as to any amendments
that NAV in his Judgment be necessary TO
meet any emergency that may arise as the
result of the Samoan affair It Is apparent
tbat the members of the committee are en-
trely willing to comply with any reason
ebIe request of the navy department in this
respect. The committee in is report
on the naval appropriation bill
voted with satisfaction that the
contractors for supplying gun forgings and
arnOr-plaue for the navy, expect to begin
deliveries in March next, although they are
not required TO do so by the terms of their
contracts before February, 1890, and there
is some talk of stimulating them to greater
efforts by making an appropriation for a
bonus to be paid for early deliveries of ma
terial
AMERICANS MEAN BUSINESS.
LONDON. Jan. 25.-Lord Salisbury had a
long interview to-day with Count Won
Hazfeld, the German ambassador. The
former is indisposed. Germany's views on
the Samoan muddle and Zanzibar question
causes distrust in admiralty circles and
mysterious silence is maintained regarding
her raval reinforcements. 1t is stated at
the foreign office that America means bust
ness and that the American naval officers
in Samoa express confidence in their ability
to hold their own.
GERMANY sUPERCILIoUs.
BERLIN. Jan. 25-The National Zeitunq,
referring to the action of the senatorial
committee at Washington on the Samoa
affair, says that measures for the protection
of theautonomY of the Samoan Islands are
superhuous, because it is not threatened by
any one The sole interest of America con-
sists in not allowing her good relations with
Germany to be jeopardized by few in
triguiug adventurers.
The FostiSche Zeitung, in reviewing the
article ln the Cologne Gazette of Yesterday,
holds that it would be mistake to attach
no Importance to the measures taken by
President Cleveland, merely because he is
to be shortly succeeded by Gen Harrison
1t points out that the authority for dealing
with foreign affairs rests with the Ameri-
can Senate. and warns the semi official
press that it would be unwlse to try aud ap-
pease the German public with ''tailacious
Illusions"
AN OUTRAGE OFF ZANZIBAR
from Zayzbar says. IAN American sailing
vessel bound from Zanzibar to Madagascar,
was fired on by German vessel and one Of
her maS:s was broken"
IRRITATION AT BERLIN.
LONDON, Jan. 26, 5 A. M-The Stand
ord's Berlin correspondent says: "Secre-
tary BayardS implied attack upon the Ger
man policy IN Samoa has caused great irr-
tail here, but that feeling is suppressed.
In tie meantime, many think that England
and Germany should establish JOINT pro
teatorate, to which America would not OBJ