The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-23
HE'S RETALIATINC
President Cleveland Issues Pro-
ClamatiOn.
GERMANY AND MARITIME DUES
Treaty of 1888 Has Been
Frequently Violated.
Germany For Turning Up Her
Nose at the Amer
lean Hog.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 3.-There
is reason to anticipate a further break
in the friendly relations between the
United States and Germany. The
President today issued the following
important proclamation of retaliation
for unfriendly acts of the German Gov
eminent:
Whereas, BY proclamation of the
President of the United States, dated
January &c, 1888, upon proof then ap
pearing satisfactory that no tonnage
or lighthouse dues or any equivalent
tax or taxes whatever were imposed
upon American vessels entering the
ports of the empire of Germany, either
by the Imperial Government or by the
Governments of the German maritime
States, and that vessels belonging to
the United States of America and their
cargoes were not required in German
ports to pay any fee or due of any
kind or nature, or any import due
higher or other than was payable by
German vessels or their cargOes in the
United States, the President did there
by declare and proclaim that after the
date of his said proclamation of Jan
uary 26, 1888, the suspension of the
collection of the whole duty of cents
per ton, not to exceed 80 cents per ton
per annum, imposed upon vessels en-
tered in the ports of the United States
from any of the ports of the empire of
Germany by Section 2 of the Act of
Congress, approved June 19, 1896, en-
titled An Act to abolish certain fees
81 to rvacCp1c
and TO amend the laws relating to ship
ping, commerce, seamen and owners of
vessels, and for other purposes, and
Whereas. The President did further
declare and proclaim in his prOclama-
ton of January 26. 1883, that the said
suspensions should continue so long IS
the reciprocal exemption of vessels be-
longing to citizens of the United States
and their cargoes should be continued
in the said ports of the empire of Ger
many and no longer; and
Whereas, 1t now appears upon sat
isfactOry proof that tonnage or light
house dues or taxes equivalent thereto
are in fact imposed upon American yes
sells and their cargOes entered in Ger
man ports higher than those imposed
upon German vessels or their cargoes
entered in ports of the United States,
81 iIldi Tic SCtlN plO VI jan
uary &c. 1888, in it's operation and eff
feet contravenes the meaning and in
tent of said Section of the Act of Con-
greSs. approved June 49, 1886.
Now therefore, l. Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States of Amer
lea. by virtue of the aforesaid Section
? OF the Act aforesaid, as well as in
pursuance of the terms of the said
proclamation itself. do hereby revoke
my said proclamation of January 20,
1888, suspending the collection of the
whole of the duty of cents per ton,
not to exceed 30 cents per ton, per an
num- which is imposed by the afOre-
said section of said Act, upon vessels
entered in the ports of the United
States from any of the ports of the
| German empire: this revocation of said
proclamation to take effect on and aft
! er the I'd day of January, 1897.
! In witness whereof l have hereuntO
| set my hand and caused the seal of the
/ United States to be affixed.
"Seal)
GROVER CLEVELAND.'
! Evidences of an unfriendIy DISPOSE
| ton of the German Government toward
the United States have been accumu-
lating ever since the differential duty
on bounty paid German beet sugar was
imposed by the Wilson tariff law.
American cattle have been excluded
on the pretext of danger of contagion
from Texas fever, which cannot exist
in northern climates. American hog
Eproducts have been excluded. even
Though cooked and inclosed in cans,
on the allegation that these cooked
lDrOducts might contain trichinae,
which cannot exist in cooked food.
Discriminating and prOhibitive duties
against American OleOmargarine, glu-
Icose and petroleum and many other
exports which formerly went to the
German Empire have followed one
after the other. These matters have
been made the subject of vigorous pro