The morning call., 1894-10-31
NO BEEF WANTED.
All the German Ports
Closed.
NO RETALIATION IN THIS.
Although 1t Looks as if There
Might Be.
MR.. MORTON DOES NOT CARE.
Nor Is the Administration at All
Worried Over Americas Loss
of a Market.
MR.. MORTON DOES NOT CARE.

Press, was extended to-day to every port
of Germany. Interviews which the cor
respondent of the Associated Press has
had with the officials of the Interior De-
partment of the Prussian Husbandry D.
partment and the German Foreign Office
would seem to show that the prohibition
is of preventive nature and the action
of individual German States. The For
eign Office officials. for instance.
state that the, prohibition is no
affair of theirs. as the measures adopted
are purely administrative AID sanitary
and strictly belong to each German st tie.
The empire as such, those officials add, has
not taken any step TO prohibit the landing
of American cattle or American meat.
The officials of the Interior Department
say that the importation Of cattle from
America suffering from Texas fever has
been clearly proved. and that the measures
taken are purely of precautionary ma
ture, such as each German State is enti-
tied TO exercise through its police author
ity within its own territory.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-The announce
ment of the Associated Press that the en-
barge placed upon American cattle by the
Senate of Hamburg had been extended 10
the length of an exclusion of American
cattle and dressed meat from every port
of Germany was received with surprise by
department officials to-day. That Texas
fever was merely ground which Germany
could adopt for enforcing retaiatory meas
ures against the United States because of
the supposed discrimination against Ger
man interests in the sugar schedule Of the
tariff bill was the prevalent Impression.
TIE German Enbassador, however. as
sured the Secretary Of State yesterday
that the measure of exclusion was inspired
solely by sanitary reasons, and had no
political motive behind it. Government
officials are Obliged to take this view of
the case since any other view might seem
a reflection upon the Embassador. Secre-
tary Morton, who has just returned from
trip abroad. had consultation with Sec
retary Gresham about the matter to-day,
but the stringent measures just adopted
were not known then. he assured Secre-
tary Gresham that the expectation of
Texas fever into Germany by American
cattle was altogether improbable, if not
impossible, according to the opinion of the
experts of the departments. who have de-
voted much time 10 investigating the
disease during the past year, and said he
was confident that the supposed discovery
of Texas fever was a mistake.
When the Associated Press dispatch
from Berlin was shown to the Secretary of
Agriculture he expressed surprise. The
exclus on If dressed meats he was at loss
to understand, because they are all in
spected by competent Government officials
in this country before they are shipped.
Texas fever, morever. can be carried only
by live cattle. The live cattle exported
from this country are also inspected at the
ports of shipment to see that they are not
diseased.
Secretary Morton said he had no doubt
that the German officials intended to act in
the interests of the public health in ex-
cluding American cattle as the sanitary
regulations of that country are unusually
stringent upon all such matters. The Sec
retsry thinks the damage to be inflicted
upon American interests by this action is
greatly overestimated, as our exports of
meat TO Germany are comparatively light.
From his observation on his recent trip,
Secretary Morton is WINGED that the ex-
porting of live cattle cannot be made TO
pay as we'll as shipping dressed meats. The
establishment of increased facilities for
shipping meats in cold storage he thinks
will greatly increase the American Ousi-
ness.
DR.. 3. e. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, said: Admitting for
the sake of argument that the cattle which
are killed in Germany are afflicted with
the Texas fever, there is no longer dan
ger 10 the German cattle. because in this
country cattle with disease DO not COM
municate it to other animals. The disease
is not communicated directly from one
animal to another. but animals from q cer-
tain district in the Southern part OF the
United States are liable to infect pastures
and pens in which they have to be placed
within thirty days from the time they
leave this district. The animals which
contract the disease obtain the Infection
from these pens and pastures, not directly
from other animals. This has been proved
by many years of experience in the United
States. Tie conveyance of Texas fever in
dressed meat is impossible. The animals
thus diseased do not fall sicken a all them
selves. They simply carry the ticks. The
ticks drop off and lay their eggs and die.
Those eggs must lie on the ground GER
tain length of time before they batch.
Then the young lie there certain length
of time before they get on the cattle and
another length of time elapses before they
produce disease"
CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-A Washington spe-
cial to the Chicago Daily News SAYS Sec
retary Morton was at the Cabinet meeting
to-day for the first time since his return
from Europe. The principal subject dis
cussed was the recent action of the Ger
man Government discriminating against
American cattle and American beef. Sec
retary Morton called the attention of the
President and the other Cabinet mem bers
10 the fact that Germany was an unim-
portant factor in our foreign market for
cattle and beef, Great Britain last year
imported 393.941 head of American cattle.
while Germany took 4o00. One American
farmer could supply the entire GerGan
market, of which il is said America has
just been deprived. Then why this great
scare? The fact is that rs per cent of the
American products exported find a market
in Great Britain. Secretary Morton inti-
mated that there was o great concern
felt by the administration over Germany S
action.