St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-13
THE GERMAN TARIFF.
TAX QUESTION INVOLVES TWO cow
Tries IN TROUBLE.
MUST ACCEPT BUssIA's PLAN.

Foreigners Interested in the Re-
duction of the Tariff on I'M
ported Observation-Disclosures Are
Watching the Crisis in the
Omitted States Discount Rate
Advanced.
BERLIN, Aug. 12.-The finance COM
mittee, composed of delegates from the
federated states, will meet in Berlin
Immediately upon the completion Of the
holiday leave, in September. of Dr.
MIGUEL, the Prussian minister of
finance. Tho semi official announce
ment from Frankfort that the confer
ence which was recently in session
there had agreed to the general prn-
ciples of the new taxation plan is not
credited here. In best informed circles
qaite the contrary Is believed. DR..
MIGUEL. il is said, found considerable
opposition to each leading proposal of
the scheme.
The South German finance minister
objected 10 the wine tax, while the
other finance ministers opposed the tax
on manufactured tobacco. Consequent
ly. DR.. MIGUEL will negotiate compro-
mise, according to the terms of which
the wine tax will be dropped, provided
the duty on tobacco be accepted, thus
incre aslng the ratio of the value of to-
bacco. The INLAND excise duty now
levied by weight will be abolished, thus
making free of all restrictions the Guilt
walton OF tobacco The proposal of
greatest interest to the foreign import
q IL hot TnP rnhn of
the tariff on imported tObaccOS. The
proposal Is made with view to pre-
venting the interior
Native Products
from crushing those of superior quality
grown abroad out Of the market. Min
lister MIGUEL also desired that tax be
placed upon advertisements and on
matches, besides the imposition of
further tax on bourse transactions.
The relchstag, it is expected. will burst
into flame over the proposals touching
tobacco, matches and advertisements.
Count Won SchOuvalotf. the Russian
ambassador to Germany, has gone to st.
Petersburg to try to counteract the anti
German policy of Dr.. Witte, the Russian
finance minister.
Gen. Won Werder, the ambassador to
Russia. has been granted an audience
Count Won SchOuvalOtf, and both of
them urged that commercial entente
be concluded between Russia and Ger
many. 1t is reported that DR.. White,
after the interview, declared to the cZar
that he would resign his office if the
tariff war with Germany were aban-
doned without concessions being made
by Germany. DIR. Witte is strongly
supported by the imperial council, and
the czar was obliged to give way to HIM
i'll the matter. Thereupon DR.. Witte
authorized Semi-utficiai statement by
the press yesterday that the
Berlin Cabinet
would be forced TO accept the Russian
condition before a commercial entente
could be obtained.
The latest developments of the strug-
gle thus justify the official warnings
issued here to the public not TO trust
the reports that settlement of the
tariff troubles was close at hand.
On Thursday the emperor signed
decree adding 80 per cent to the duties
collected on Finnish products imported
into Germany. This Increased tariff
will practically cause the ruin of the
leading branches of trade in Finland.
The proceedings of the American
congress are watched with keen inter
est here. President Cleveland's mes
sage gave bourse operators in this city
and elsewhere in Germany the impress
sion that silver was doomed, and this
caused heavy drop III the values OF
Mexican securities.
There was intense and general I'M
eaSineSS over the commercial situation
in America. The apparent strength
of the silver men in Washington,
coupled with the rise III the price of
silver, led to a reaction of opinion, and
Mexican securities have recovered three
points since Thursday, even though it
IS asserted that the agents in Mexico of
the Bleichr9derS, the we'll known
German Bankers,
have information of an intended reduc-
ton in the rate of interest now paid on
Mexican bonds.
The advance by the Reichsbank of its
discount rate TO per cent means de
termination to prevent drain Of gold
from Germany. Inquiries for gold from
Austria assisted TO hasten the decision
of the ReichsbaIk to raise its discount
rate. Ii demand for gold through the
international bank shows marked in
crease theReichSbank will again raise its
discount rate.
The proposed visit in September Of
Cardinal Ledochowski. project of the
CONGREGATION or the propaganda Eide, to
Berlin and PJsen, the first time lie will
have visited those cities since he was
eXiled in 1876. is exciting all Catholic
Germany. The cardinal wants the
quIetest Kind of reception. but the
Prussian Catholics are determined to
give him public ovation. The author
tiles at Posen and Gnesen, thirty miles
from Posen, are preparing a series of
feteS to be held in his honor. All these
fetes are sanctioned by the government.
Emperor William will entertain the
| cardinal during his stay in Berlin.
The paralysis from which the Duke of
! SaXe-COburg and Gotha is suffering is
extending. The physicians who are in
attendance upon him have notified the
Duke Of Edinburgh, second son of Queen
Victoria, who is heir apparent to the
dukedOm, that the dukes condition is
critical. Emperor William will return
to Berlin on Monday for the purpose of
| reviewing the Prussian guards.
The King of Wurtemburg recon-
| mended 10 the emperor that the maneu-
vers in WurtemOurg he abandoned. ow-
| ing to the dearth of fodder and fear of
| cholera. The emperor accepted the
| recommendation, and he will simply re
view the troops at Stuttgart ON Sept. Is.