The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
That is the German Opinion on
KOch'S Statement.
GERMANY'S STANDARD OF VALUE
viii Remain Gold. Says Emperor William
sugar Bounties DIR. Windthorst Cele-
brates His Eightieth Birthday.

BERLIN, Jan. 17.-[Copyright, 1891, by
the New York Associated Press. I-Thers
is decided disappointment over the defec-
tive character of Koch's statement regard
ing the composition of his lymph, espe-
cially in regard to the studied reticence
concerning some parts of the process of
production. Discussion proceeds with re-
newed activity as to the value of the dis
covery. The weight OF German, Austria
Ian and English medical opinion supports
the oelef In the healing virtues of the
lymph. DR.. Peters reports that in twenty
one post mortem examinations he found the
lymph, instead of being beneficial, has led
to an extensive increase of tuberculous de-
poslts The evidence from every quarter,
however, when compared, demonstrates
that, though the remedy has failed in many
cases, 1t has an undoubted effective amel-
lorating effect in early phthisis, tubercu-
losis of the larynx and lupus Leading
Russian doctors have experimental with
the lymph in leprosy and report the char
acteristic reaction.
| The committee of the reichstag on the
sugar bill, after rejecting the proposal TO
| raise the consumption tax to 16 marks per
100 Kilograms instead of 20 as proposed by
the government, to-day voted for an open
export bounty of 1 mark pfennigs for Ian
| unlimited time. The government declares il
willnot accept the changes. Yesterdays ma
lority against the abolition Of grain duties
| does not alter the governments resolution
in modifying the extreme protection pol
icy which it has heretofore followed.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has the assur
ance of the entire party that although con-
/ IrrlTYI 1lraus.
ton of duties, they will support the treaty
without reducing the tariff on corn to
marks, so pfennigs.
| The official dinner given by Herr Miguel.
minister of finance, was rendered notable
by the free utterances of the Emperor con-
corning bimetallism. Germany, he said.
could not accept a double standard cur,
| rency, the question had been definitely
| settled ID favor of gold standard. The
| trading nations of the world, he declared.
| would ere long agree upon the universal
adoption of gold. A COMMITTEES Of
the Deutscher Verien which RECENTLY
attended the engineers conference in
America, waited upon the American minis
ter, Phelps. today and said, desiring to
give some tangible sign of their gratitude
for the pleasant time they had in the
United States, they wished the minister to
present, for them, three silver goblets to
MesSrs- kirchon, Raymond and Shunim
upon whom chiefly devolved the hospi
tality accorded the German delegates.
| Phelps expressed thanks on behalf of the
American institute and afterward gave a
dinaer. The goblets are of curious design,
being shaped like Bessemer distributors.
An American named Motion, haiIfng
from st Louis, has been arrested in
Munich charged, under the name of Drew.
with swind bag Vienna bank out of nearly
500 horlns with forged bills of exchanges.
DR.. Windthorst today celebrated his
eightieth birthday. The Catholics poured
addresses upon him and number of din
ners were given in his honor
The severity of the winter and the wide
ness Of the area affected are greater than
ever before known. Railroad traffic is
greatly INSTRUCTED. Over a thousand are
employed cleaning the streets of Berlin.
The tramway companies in Vienna have
1000 men at work. The Austrian rail-
ways are blocked. Large stores of pro-
visions are snowbound and the prices of
food have advanced. Several German
ports are again closed by ice.