Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-25
AMERICAN PORK.
Germany VIII Not Remove the
Prohibition.
Will the United States Re-
taliate?

An Interview with Senator Paddock OF
the Subject and the Presidents Policy
France VIII Soon Remove the Re
strictions Against American Meat
Products.
NEW YORK, March 25.-A special tc
The Herald from Washington says
Senator Paddock, who has been spend
ing several days in New York, arrived
in Washington Monday evening In re.
sponse to an Inquiry regarding the re-
port that the government was conten
plating retaliation upon Germany as a
result of the refusal of the German EN-
pine to remove the prohibition on
American meat products, the senator
said:
The report that President Harrison
has stated to me the intention of the
administration to retaliate upon Ger
many for the cause named is not true
However, | have good reason to elieye
that if the senseiess and unjust discrim-
nation against American pork and
other meat products is not at once re-
moved our government will take
prompt measures under the act of Aug
30. 1880, to retaliate by excluding GER
tain German importations from this
country.
"The cablCd interview with Secretary
of State Won Butticher in which he
stated that Germany would not remove
the prohibit NJ against American pork
on account of the 'insufficiency of the
Inspection laws Of the United States,
makes it plainly apparent that the Ger
man law is maliCiously unjust and
passed not to protect the health of Ger
man subjects, but absolutely to prevent
competition on the part OF the Ameri
can corn-fed hog, with the razor back
swine of the German empire. No
country in the world has to-day such
rigid meat inspection laws rs the United
States.
Immediately upon learning Of the
cabled statement of the German secre-
tary of state, called upon the secretary
of agriculture i'll my capacity as chair
man of the senate committee on agli-
culture. ! stated to him what | now
state to you. that it was plain that Ger
many'S position was not one Of regula
ton. but of absolute and wilful rohi-
bition And ] urged upon him that,
under the rovisiOns of the at Of Aur.
30, 1920, German beet sugar, of which
$4,000, 900 We're imported into this
country last year, should he excluded
under the provisions of such a law
have reason to lie ieve that President
Harrison is seriously considering tie is
suance of such proclamation, and that
if the restrictions which Germany places
upon oar meat products are not prompt
ly removed. an order prohi biting the ac
ceptance Of German beet sugar at the
ports of the United States will soon
issue.
What do you know as to any com
munications between this government
and Minis er Lelps uron this subie ct z
Il know nothing officially, but / have
reason to believe that Minister Phelps
has already been communicated with on
the subject aud that bis reply to the
first communication did not eviLce as
strong a regard on his part for Ameli-
can interests as 1t did perhaps for his
own social interests i'll Berlin | think
that if Mr. Phelps appreciated the inn
pOrtance Of the question and the strong
feeling of Indignation on the part of the
people of this country he might place
himself more nearly in line with Min
lister Whitelaw Rel /, who has been a
tower of strength in France maintaining
the commercial interests of this country
and in demanding that fair treatment
for those who have or might have deal
ings with that republic.
For myself and for the western peo-
pie, whom in part ! represent, ! believe
that under the ample authority granite
the president lie will be quick to sci
the advantage and to demand of Ger
many fair treatment i'll return for fair
treatment, or to insist upon the old
Hebraic doctrine of an eye for eye and
tooth for tooth. | think that | may
state that the pre- 'ident is as keenly
alive to the requirements Of the situa-
tion as anyone | know that the secre-
tary of agriculture is determined so far
as in him lies to test the powers of the
government under the recent laws to
their utmost
"In France, thanks largely to Minis
ter Reid, the restrictions against Ameri-
can pork will shortly be removed, the
only question being the amodnt of duty
to be placed on the imported article. |
believe that Germany will find very
shortly that if she prohibits absolutely
American importations she will be OBJ
liged to pay dollar for dollar in the cur
tailment Of her export trade with the
United States