Evening journal., 1897-04-08
THREE PROTESTS FILED
Germany, Italy and Netherlands
Don't Like the Tariff.
HINTS OF A CoNMERcIAI WAR.

Diplomatic E'prcseniativra fne Formal
Objections to the Diugiey Measure.
Baron won Thiclmaun Hints st Retaiia-
tion-Voted 100000 to Sufferers.
Washington. April S.-The New York
, Herald's correspondent sends the fol-
lowing to his paper.
There is grave danger of commercial
warfare between the United states and
several Of the most important CONNER
cial nations OF Europe i'm the event Of
the enactment of the Dingiey bin into
law in substantially the same form in
which it passed the house.
The German ambassador. the Italian
ambassador and the minister from the
Netherlands to the United States, act
! ing under Instructions from their gov
ernments, have filed protests against
che proposed legislation With the secre-
tary OF state. and these protests have
been forwarded by Secretary Sherman
TO the committee on finance. These pro-
tests, while couched i'm diplomatic LAM
guage, plainly call attention TO the ef-
feet which the proposed bin would have
on the countries concerned I'm the event
of its passage That OF Baron Won Thiel-
mann the German ambassador. Is par
4 ticularly forcible, amounting almost TO
direct threat OF retaliation by the
German government against the United
States. The senate committee having
been put In possession of the inf0rma-
4 tion contained in these communica-
tions. must decide whether or not a pol
icy should be pursued which promises
to lead to grave foreign complications.
Gcrmany's Foroibie Protest.
The German protest is particularly
significant, not only for the reason that
it is more forcib.y worced Than the
others that have been received, but
also because OF the existing friction
between that government and the
United States growing out Of the re-
strictions which have been placed by
Germany on the importation Of Amer.
lean meat products and The recent Sc
tion OF the United States IN imposing
tonnage ana por; duties on German
ships erter.-g ports Of TIE Caitai
Sta;es. Should The pending tari@ clu
which proposes 90 tax almost 10 lhs
prca.e.;c!y po..s many articles OK Ger
man E~ce~ct:ca become q Jaw :; IS rot
:-cp-c hapie ,sai tEe Sevr:ar govern
ineas wou!c 'sta,ats cy Imposing s;i.
create; -estric..o-s GSoc ATertcGr
products - view Of re iric;ion a.
ready existing e woa!d e35argeT grav'
diplomatic complications between 20.
twc countries. and ;5 3 cot ,:s:a-obae.'
IT ,hat President N-N.-.sy tac this pos
slb.n,y = -.i-S ~heu se selected =.
er5assaGcr tc Ts-Ia-y Andrew -
Wt..e. who is generally regarded a.
ore of the best rec who coCi5 Ea"'
beer chosen Ter tr.s dia3cr.t sos. uc
on.y c. Gcccuat of his recognizes s5it
y, bgi aisc oeca1ss &c IS rs-sc@a.i'
acceptable 60 .1e German ccvs.ca.sns
TIE increase IT, duties proposed = N
Ci-giey b.. s4sot German cvc1-c;s q
almost every schedule pa...ca.a..y j
textile sac-ics. gloves 01css ard s-ga;
the discriminating dGty On sugar !-a
p1rte5 tvcnc countries paying &c eNpo-
5cu1ty having been framed as u Is eX
p-sssly Ser tSe purpose C: reaching Ger
r.2- sugars. Increased cG..es are ais
imposed on a large number Of aT.icle
Imported from Italy. irclu5.ne marble!
t~u.ts au.s arc olive CD. On Macy q
t@sse articles srca as .ruits and oiiv
ci.. ths iu,ies are made higher thar ~
der .9a Mckinley Jaw. The Neither
la-as aye affected by increases or
large nums-- cs articles. The princ!pa
r.- Llng Suwatra tobacco which
being imported fer cigar wrapper.
The Mckinley rate OF 81 per pound, O
ls5 per cent. has been restored on thl
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