The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-24
Rather Lively Debate on the Subject of
Import Duties.
The Disease Among Cattle in Germany
Not the Result of Importing AMI
mails, But of Local Origin, Due to
the German Farmers Not CARRYING
Out Ordinary Sanitary Precautions.

by incidents which provoked spirited
discussions and saved the sittings of the
chamber from absolute dizziness. The
first of these scenes was brought about
by Herr Munckel, Richterite Radical
who called attention to the arrest of the
editor of the 'FNrankenfurter Gazette"
and refusing to reveal the name of the
writer of an article published in his
paper, which the authorities character
lied ais an act of les majestic, and his
subsequent release upon the failure to
extract from him the information de-
sired
Herr Munckel desired that the editors
of newspapers be relieved from any OBJ
legation to disclose the identity of the
writers of articles appearing in their
journals, whereupon DR.. Schoenstedt
Minister of Justice, suggested that the
revelation on the part of editors of the
names of contributors to the proper
authorities was a legal necessity. No
one but Government officers, he con-
tended, ought to be exempt from giving
information and only then when or
dered by their superiors in office to OBJ
serve silence. A hot debate ensued, and
the subject was taken up by the news
papers the next day, the Radical and
Socialist Journals violently protesting
against the attitude assumed by DR..
Schoenstedt, and assailing the Govern
ment authority and the Judges of the
courts for their bad faith.
1t was a rather lively debate on the
subject of the duties imposed upon Que
bracho Wood which ELECTED the state
ment made by PasadowSky Wehner, the
Minister of THE Imperial Treasury in re-
gard to the revision of the German COM
mercial treaties in 1860 Count Pasa-
dowsky said that the Government was
preparing a new customs tariff designed
to reform the tariffs in 1904, and spoke
of an autonomous customs tariff as be-
ing under considera ton. Although the
Minister did not especially refer to
America, the impression produced was
that the Government contemplates
changes which will affect trade with the
United States.
Another incident which enlivened the
proceedings was caused by DR.. Won
Boetticher, Imperial Secretary of State.
who took the Americans to task for
repeated declaration that disease among
cattle was being spread in Germany
through Importation of foreign animals.
AS a matter of fact, he said THE disease
among cattle in Germany did not re-
suit from imported animals, but was
very often of local origin. German farm
ers, he held. should carry out the ordi-
nary sanitary precautions, which they
were neglecting, and observe stricter
veterinary supervision over their own
animals than they were now doing.
The suicide of Fritz Spahr, the Ameri-
can violinist, in the Hotel Deutscher in
Berlin on Monday is attributed by his
friends here to his unhappy marriage.
The conferences which have been held
by the Imperial Board of Health upon
the question of the fatal bubonic plague
now raging in Bombay have led to
the sending of German health officials
to Vienna and Rome to arrange proven
tive measures against the introduction
of the disease into Europe. The Prince
of Oldenburg, the head of the Russian
Medical Institute, has visited Odessa to
observe the situation there in regard to
the possibility of the introduction of
the plague through that port and is
about to visit Berlin and Paris for the
purpose of consulting with medical and
health authorities in those capitals. The
German Imperial Board of Heauth has
issued orders that all persons arriving
from India, Persia and Red Sea ports
be especially watched and quarantined
at Hamburg or Bremen on suspicion
of their infection with the plague Pro
fessor Drasche, a member of the Aus
trian Sanitary Council, states that there
IS great danger that the plague will
lya annao ropoo in, Er,,ro,>.a ora -
presses the opinion that European
trade with infected East Indian ports
ought to be stopped at once, and such
ports closed.
Professor Kieffer son-in-law of DR..
Koch, the bacterologist, expressed his
belief that a spoderic case of plague
would appear in Europe, but does not
believe that the disease Will become cpl
denic, if energetic measures for it's
prevention are taken
The ''Zukunft'' asserts that Prince
Bismarck is greatly enraged at the in
dignity put upon his son, Count Her
bert, by the Emperor upon the occa-
sion of the recent marriage of the
daughter of Minister Won Wedel to
Lieutenant Bismarck Boehlen, which
the Kaiser would only consent to attend
on consideration that Herbert, cousin
of the bridegroom, would not be pres
emit at the wedding, despite the fact
that he had been invited. According
to the ''Zukunft," the ex-Chancellor
regards the incident as an insult to
himself, for which he is unable to as
sign any cause.
United States ambassador Uhl and
Mrs. Uhl attended the annual Embass-
sailors dinner at the Royal Schloss on