The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
OUR berlin CABLE LETTER.
WITH THE UNITED STATES Is
BEING CONSIDERED.
SOMETHING IS WRONG IN GERMANY
This Weeks Budget Fails to Even
Mention Emperor WiIIiam-Agi
tntiOn for Repeal of Lese Nh
jeste Section of Penal Code.

| Berlin, Oct. 16.-(Copyrighted 1897
| by the Associated Press.)-Soon after
the United States tariff went into effect
the officials of the American embassy
| Informed the German government that
the United States was willing to begin
negotiations for reciprocity treaty
| under clauses , and 4. No answer has
thus far been made, but preparations
are actually making to open negotia-
tions. The question is being thorough
| ly considered in the imperial depart
| ments of the interior and finances as
well as in the German foreign office, the
officials of that department being en-
gagged in collecting and compiling statis-
tics for ascertaining not only the effects
of the new tariff of the United States
! upon the different branches of German
| industry. but with Il view of the posi-
| bility of extending new branches of
| goods into the German exports. One of
\ the principals in conducting this work is
| Herr Wermuth. former German COM
missioner at the Worlds fair ut Chi
| cago. while the statistical branch is
wholly in charge of Baron Won Tiel-
mann, formerly Gernany's ambassador
at Washington and now secretary of the
| imperial treasury. The cabinet crisis.
which is considered to only end with the
| departure of Prince Honhenlohe, neces.
sarily retards the whole work of the
reciprocity treaty preliminaries.
| Erroneous and misleading reports as
to the effects of the new tariff on Ger
| man industry continue to appear in the
press. Consul General Goldschmidt has
| just compiled an official list of German
exports from which it appears that
! there has been a great decrease in en-
ports for the quarter ending September
30, largely due to the Very great haste
in crowding exports to America prior
to the Dingley bill becoming law, but
| the decrease in the whole of Germany
is only 81 per cent and not 56 per cent,
ms reported by the KreuZ Ieitung. Mr..
Goldschmidt points out that the de-
| crease is mostly in sugar. as evidenced
by the fact that during the third quarter
OF lSo6 the sugar exports from Germany
to the United States were valued at S6.
669.955 while in the second quarter of
1891, anticipating the passage of the
Dingley bill, the exports of German
| sugar to the United States were nearly
| double that amount. namely S13.9S0,-
80, but for the third quarter of 1897
the sugar exports of Germany to the
United States were under 100000 in
value. The sugar exported during the
fiscal year of 1861. ending in August,
amounted to $50, ,227 ,66S. showing an
| enormous excess as compared with nor
mai years. How terrific was the crowd
| ing OF German exports in anticipation
of the Dingley bill becoming n law is
shown by the fact that while during the
| second quarter of 1896 the figures were
only S13.S3I. los for the Berlin district.
during the second quarter of 1897 the
amount reached S24,S49. 176 for the Ber-
lin district alone. comprising only the
| northern half of Germany, while for the
whole of Germany the figures were
about S51,0OO,0OO against $6G,OO0O0O
for the same quarter of 1896.
| In other words the German exports
discounted their trade i'm anticipation of
the passage of the Dingley bin for
. whole quarter in advance.
The German press here with a few
exceptions has not looked the above
| squarely in the face. Even the Cologne
| Gazette, which has immense influence
in western Germany. publishes this
week statistics claiming to show the
disastrous effects of the Dingley tariff.
| The National Zeitung says
Everybody has known that the Ding
ley tariff bill would injure German in
| dustry and the question is what can be
! done on the German side to neutralize
the injury. A tariff war such as the
| agrarians want would only render the
| situation more acute"
The sentence imposed on the editor of
l
Stencil. who was committed to eight
| months Imprisonment after being tried
| on the charge of lese majeste in as
serting that King Leopold of Belgium
| has habitually encouraged gambling.
and who has since been released Oh 5000
| marks bail, and the case of Herr Lieb-
| knecht. the socialist leader. whose ap-
peal to the supreme court against the
| sentence of four months Imprisonment
passed uDOn him i'm 1897 for lpse MA
jeste committed in his speech at the
| opening of the socialist congress at
Breslau in October of that year. has
| been dismissed, which necessitates his
| undergoing the term of Imprisonment.
| continue agitating the newspapers and
periodicals of every shade of opinion.
which demand that the reichstag
abolish section 1O2 of the penal code,
| under which Stencil was convicted.
The income tax bill introduced in the
Bavarian chambers is modelled on the
law of Persia, but on a scale averaging
10 per cent less. The official report on
the effects of the exclusion of cattle
meats from most of the German from
tiers show that only % per cent of the
consumption is imported Since October
| IA, 1894. not single head of American
| cattle or a pound Of American fresh beef
has been imported.
The condition of Prince Henry of
Reuss. who is confined in private IN
sane asylum in this city. Is rapidly
growing worse and the family has he
gun proceedings to have him declared
| Irresponsible
The first shipment of American butter
has arrived at Hamburg In excellent
condition and found q ready market at
prices slightly lower than the German.
! averaging to the American butter "a