The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
GERMANS
FIGURE ON
TARIFFS
Slow in Negotiations
for a Reciprocity
Treaty.
EXPORTS FALL OFF
RAPIDLY.
Industries Of the FatherIand
Injured by the Dingley
Bill.
RETALIATION DECLARED IN
ORDER.
Eva the Socialists Encourage the
GoWIng Feeling OF AnImosity
Against This Country.
Industries Of the Fatherland
Injured by the Dingley
Bill.
RETALIATION DECLARED IN
ORDER.
Eve the Socialists Encourage the
GowIng Feeling OF AnImosity
Against This Country.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

Special Dispatch TO THE CALL
BRLIN, GERMANY, Oct. 16-Soon after
thelew United States tariff went into
effe the officials of the American en-
bas' informed the German Government
thathe United States was willing to begin
neftiations for reciprocity treaty under
claIes 3 and 4 No reply of any kind
haihus far been made, but preparations
are actually making to open negotia-
tio5, although the pace is very slow.
Th question is being thoroughly con-
sided in the imperial departments OF
tn interior and finance, as we'll as in
thGerman Foreign Office, the officials of
tn department of the Government being
eniged IN collecting and com piling sta
tiscs for ascertaining not only the effects
ofle new tariff of the United States uron
tn different branches of German in
dtry, but with view of the possibility
ofxtending new branches of goods in to
Ii German exports. One of the princi-
ps in conducting this work is Herr
Vrmuth, the former German commits
sner at the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
vile the statistical branch is wholly in
carge of Baron Won Thielmann, formerly
(rman EN- bassador at Washington and
rw Secretary OF the Imperial Treas ury
The fact, however latent that the
'abinet crisis is still on, and is considered
b only end with the departure of Prince
Hohenlohe, necessarily retards the whole
work Of the reciprocity treaty and pre-
iminaries.
Erroneous and misleading reports as to
fhR effects nf a
on German industry continue to appear in
he press. Consul-GeneraI GoldschmiQt
has just com piled an official list OF German
exports, from which it appears that there
las been great decrease in exnorts for
the quarter ending September 80. largely
due 10 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 "a per cent,
and not So per cent as reported by the
kreuz Zeitung.
MIR. Goldschmidt points out that the
decrease is mostly in sugar, evidenced by
the fact that during the third quarter of
1896 the sugar exports from Germany to
the United States were valued at SO, ,669 955,
while In the second quarter of 1897, anticl-
patlng the passage of the Dingley bill, the
exports Of German sugar were nearly
double that amount, namely, $13, $50. 597,
but for the third quarter of 1897 The sugar
=
$500, 900 in value.
The sugar exported during the fiscal
year OF 1862. ending on August 10
amounted TO $50, 227, ,668, showing an enor-
nous excess as compared with normal
years. How terrific was the crowding of
German exports In anticipation of the
Dingiey bill becoming a law is shown by
the TACT that while during the second
quarter OF 1896 the figures were only S13-
637, 1O8 for the Berlin district, during the
second quarter of 1897 the amount reached
S24, 659, l67 for the Berlin district alone.
comprising only the northern half of
germany, while for the whole of Germany
ihe hgures were about $51, 600, 600 against
go 6,UoO OOO Tor the same quarter In 1886
In other words the German exporters
discounted their trade in anticipation OF
the passage of the Dingley bill for whole
quarter in advance. The German press
here, with few exceptions, has not
looked the above facts squarely in the
face. Even the Cologne Gazette. which
has immense influence in Western Ger
many, pu ubllshes this week statistics claim
ing to show the disastrous effects of the
Dingley tariff law.
The National Zeitung says: Everybody
has known that the Dinglev tariff hili
would iniure German industry. and the
question Is what can be done on the Ger.
n an side to neutralize the injury. A
ioAAi val odSA do the dRraridnS
would only render the situation moe
acute"
The Deutsche Zeitung, a Iead,no
aerarlan organ, after speaking of the con-
tinual flow of money from Eurone ~
America says: 'If IL should nrovs tbat |
the com mercial intercourse between En-
rope and the United States continued as |
at present, to necessltate an outflow OF |
gold to America and a chronic stIffanino
Of the European money market. the En-.
ropean countries which this wear viii
have to pay about 800 000. 900 marks for
he American cereals in excess of their
exports will be compeI Ell to orpaDiza
oInt measures for sef-defense."
Under these circumst stances it is not sur-
orising that the growing feeling of ami
nosity against the United States finds ey-
preston, even in the liberal and radical
papers which have hitherto been friendly
10 America. 1t is significant, for ins auce
hat Herr Max SchippereI, a Socialist
NE mber of the Reichstag, has declared. in
behalf of the other forty-seven Socialist
u M hers OF the house, the willingness of
ne Socialist faction TO aid the Government
n any measures calculated TO bring about
state OF commercial' Interchange with
ne united States more favora bic 10 Ger
many than at present
Inc sentence imposed on the editor OF
he Ham burg Echo, Herr r lin bold Stem
'ei, VINO was committed 10 eight months
mfrlsonment after bsing tried on the
.harge OF lese majest- in asserting that
Alng Leopold OF Belgium had habtually
Encouraged gam ing. and who has since
'een released on 5000 marks bail, and the
'ase OF Herr Lie bknechr, the socialist
eeaoer' whose appeal to the Supreme
louIt against the sentence of four months
~ unIIsoh ment Tor lese ma jeste COM
nltted IN 1695 in his speech at the open
he OF the socialist congress at Bres au in
'ctoDer OF that year, has been dismissed,
Yhlcn neceSsli ates his undergoing the
Ell oil lmprison nment. continue to agi-
a;e The newspapers and periodicals OF
VeT0 snade OF opinion, who demand tha.
, le helcnstag aoohsh section 103 of the
'enal Code under which Herr Stenzsl
Tas convicted.
Ihe income tax bill introduced in the