The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17
RECIPROCITY WITH GERMANY.
GERMANY COLLECTING DATA LOOK
ING TOWARD A TREATY.


Cabinet Crisis tetaFds the PreIImI-
nRrics-Deutsche Zeitung Thinks
European Countries VIII he Conn
PEELED To Adopt joint Measures for
SeIf-PrOtectiOn Herr ReInhOId.
stencil Allowed Bail and Hers
Liebl<necht Is 20 Undergo a Term
of ImDriSonemen+-Prin Henry
XXVI of ROuss Growing Worse i'm
an Asylum.
Especial Berlin Cable Letter.)
Berlin, Oct 16.-Soon after the new Unit
ed states tariff went into effect the of
fioials Of the American embassy informed
the German government that the United
States was willing to begin negotiations
for a reciprocity treaty under classes
and 4. No answer of any kind has thus
far been made but preparations are act
ually made to open negotiations although
the progress Is very slow. The question 10
being thoroughly considered in the imper-
ial departments of interior and finances,
as well as in the German foreign office.
the officials of that department of the gov
ernment being engaged in collecting and
compiling statistics for ascertaining, NOT
only the effects Of the new tariff of the
United States upon the different branches
of German industry, but with view of the
possibility of extending new branches OF
goods into the German exports. One oe
the principals in conducting this work ia
Herr Wermuth, former German commis-
sioner at the Worlds Columbian ExposL-
ton at Chicago.
The fact that the cabinet crisis is stilI
on, which is considered to only end with
the departure of Prince Hohenlohe, nec-
essarily retards the whole work of tho
reciprocity treaty prelminaries.
The Deutsche Zeitung a leading agra
rian organ, after speaking of the continual
flow of money from Europe to America.
says
"If it should prove that the commercial
intercourse between Europe and the Unit
ed states continued, as at present, to me-
cessitate an outflow of gold to America
and chronic stiffening of the Europeans
money market, the European countries,
which this year will have to pay about
O000 marks for American cereals i'm
excess Of their exports, will be compelled
to organize joint measures for self de-
Tense"
The sentence imposed on the editor OF
the Hamburg Echo, Herr Relnhold STEM
eel VINO was committed to eight months
imprisonment, after being tried on the
charge of lese majestic. In asserting that
King Leopold of Belgium had habitually
encouraged gambling, and who has since
been released on 5000 marks bail; and
the case of Herr Lebknecht, the social
list leader, whose appeal to the supreme
court against the sentence of four months
imprisonment passed upon him in 1895 for
lese majestic, committed in his speech at
the opening of the socialist congress at
Breslau in October of that year, has been
dismissed, which necessitates his undergo
ing the term of Imprisonment, continue TO
agitate the newspapers and periodicals. of
every shade of opinion demand that the
Reichstag abolish section 103 of the penal
code, under which Herr Stencil was con-
Victed.
During the past week snow has fallen.
and cold weather has prevailed in Vest
ern Germany.
The condition of Prince Henry XXVI of
Rouss, who is confined In private asy-
lum for the insane in this city Is rapidly
growing worse, and the family has begun
proceedings to have him declared irre-
eponsible.
1t appears that the prince, before he
was placed In confinement, did several
sensational things. He ordered of Ber-
lin Jeweler diamonds and other jeWelry
to the value OF 100000 marks, and the
jewels have since disappeared, He also
presented his valet, a man named Schnei-
der, with a deed of house in Berllns
with 100000 marks.