St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-25
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Bismarek's Organ Says There
Is No Treaty Providing
for Samoan Autonomy.
Diplomats Regard This as
Hurting Defiance in Uncle
Sans Teeth.
Bayard Says Germany Must
Respect the Rights of the
Islanders.
Senators Think This Nation
Should Be Slow to Take
Offense.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-Dispatches
nave been received at the state depart
ment from Mr.. Pendleton, the American
minister at Berlin, in regard to the Sa-
eouan question. Their contents are
withheld from publicity, except some
extracts from German newspapers, CIV
ing accounts of and commenting upon
the fight in which so many Germans
lost their lives. The previous languid
tone of the press in regard to Samoan
affairs was quickened to fever heat by
''Das Kleine Journal" of Berlin, of the
eth inst, which says:
According to official report from
AHA, of the 2Sth of December. the land
ing corps of the Olga was sent to ac-
company the German consul to the
scene of war of the natives, in cOnse-
Guence of the destruction OF German
property and bodily insults to men of
the marine, while on leave, the consul
going there for the purpose Of inStitu-
ting disarmament. On the way to the
\ Boilele plantation the landing corps of
the Olga was by surprise attacked by
the inSurrectioniSts under the leader
ship of the American Klein. A landing
thereupOn being made by landing corps
of the Olga the, cruiser Adler and the
gunboat Eber, the natives were thrown
back and several of their villages on
the coast destroyed. Lieut.. Sieger and
fifteen men are dead, and Lieuts.
Spengler and Burchardt as well as
thirty-siX- men wounded. 1t was a
victory, but costly one, but not one to
be rejoicing over. The German med
ding in the QuarrelS of Kings Mataafa,
Maliet0a and Tamasese has been hailed
with rejoicing from several quarters,
for the reason that the final result of
the business was expected to be the oc-
cupation of Samoa by the German en-
pire. England and the United States
do not, however, agree to such a move,
and now we have even lost number of
men in battle with the deSpised
islanders. 1t is a new leaf in the his
tory of our colonial policy; laurel leaf,
bit what sort of one?"
The North German Gazette prince
BiSmarck'S organ) denies the existence
af any treaty precluding any European
power from acquiring or seeking to ac-
Juire aScendancy in Samoa. The Ga
Zette also denies that England and the
United States are agreed that the pro-
ceedingS of the German agent in Samoa
are contrary to the StipuiatiOns of the
treaties concerning Samoa, and are OPP
pOotu W III plOliidtlC 6tlQutUIc, anu JlldG
those powers have officially notified the
German government accordingly. The
treaties between Samoa, Germany, Eng
land and the United States, the Gazette
further says, provided that Samoa shall
concede to each treaty power. equal
rights with any other power, but no
treaty, regarding the neutrality or in
dependence of Samoa, exists between
Germany and the United States.
"A subcommittee of the house COM
,nittee OH foreign affairs, consisting of
Representative Morrow, McCreary and
Russell, has been appointed to consider
Samoan affairs, which come before the
full committee in the shape of CORE
Spondence from the state department
and in resolutions introduced at the last
session declaring in favor of interior
efice by our government TO check Ger
man aggression at the Samoan islands.
DEFYING UNCLE SAM.
LoNDOTT, Jan. 24.-The article in the
North German Gazette, relative to the
treaties regarding Samoa, has caused
somewhat of commotion in official cir
Giles here. By some persons it is re-
garded as deiberste defiance to the
Washington government.