The herald., 1898-02-06
THE KAlSER'S NAVAL SCHEME
EXCUSES CONCESSIONS TO THE
AGRARIANS
INSTEAD Of Being Made Less Stringent,
Prohibitions Are Likely to Be
Much Multiplied
Associated Press Special Wire


ing cablegram from our Ambassador at
Berlin, Mr.. White, which was received
late in the afternoon. contains the latest
information regarding the fruit exclu-
sion decree:
BERLIN, Feb. fisherman, Secre-
tary, Washington: Hamburg Consul
reports examination commenced and all
fresh fruit admitted except eighty-one
cases where claim is made scale insects
were found. No trouble about dried
fruit isiened) WHITE"
AN AGRARIAN VICTORY
BERLIN, Feb. 5-(Copyright, 1881
The, freedom which the reichstag and
the Prussian diet conceded this week to
the, ,agrarians, who formulated numer-
GUS wishes and complaints, is signifi-
cant. The minister Of agriculture, Baron
Won Hammerst cir. .Luxten, promised the
government that he would grant as
many Of their demands as possible. AT
the moment he was making this decla-
ration measures were preparing to stop
the importation of American fruit and
the decree in that condition had already
been issued. The entire Liberal press
openly disapproves-. of the policy and
assert it was government trick to OBJ
tain the vote of the agrarians for En-
peror Williams naval bill. The leading
commercial journals point to the ill-will
and Indignation such measures are
bound to produce in America and to the
futility Of prohibiting the importation
of an article Germany does not produce
with sufficiency. The newspapers claim
the only result will be that fruit will be
imported from the south of Europe at
q higher cost than is now being paid
for American fruits.
DR.. Friedrich Won Kueger of the agri
cultural high school, upon whose report
the authorities here are understood to
have acted, has been making an extern
sive series of experiments and examina-
tions of the American plants and fruits
supposed to be infested by the San Jose
bug. After many failures, he finally
discovered the bug in three specimens
Of peaches and pears.
DR.. Heinrich Durhru, president of the
chronological society of Stettin, writes
that the San Jose bug has long been
known in Germany as the Blut-Laus,
and has devastated orchards in various
parts of the country, especially in the
peighborhood of Frankfort and Stettin.
He adds: 1.-THE present scare is as un-
justified as the late Colorado bug scare"
Several of the newspapers express the
opinion that the decree will not be per-
manent, and that it was only intended as
temporary act Of retaliation for Amer
lean treatment of German sugar. In
quiry made at the foreign office and at
the Prussian agricultural department,
however, shows the steps taken to be
only forerunners of others of more i'm
portance, the government having con-
ciuded something must be done to graf
ify the agrarian demand for retaliation
on the United States. There was an ex-
empllfication In the reichstag on Tues
day, when DR.. Hahn, n friend of Prince
Bismarck, demanded the prohibition of
American horses, claiming the imports
had increased in 1897 to 4,279,000 marks,
and that something must be done "to
show those overbearing Americans that
an energetic German government ex-
ists." The views of the Prussian cabinet
are gaugeable by declaration made by
the minister of agriculture, Baron Won
Hammerstein-LoXten in the diet, who
declared that American horses devel-
oped influenza after importation, add
ing: ''If the importations increase, we
shall certainly be forced to adopt suit
able quarantine in order to protect our
selves"
The total exclusion of all living cattle
and hogs is also under consideration.
The sugar producers have petitioned
the imperial chancellor, demanding that
no tariff agreement shall be accepted
unless the United States tariff on Ger
man sugar is reduced 20 per cent from
the present scale and an assurance CIV
en- that no other country will be more
,favorably treated.
..s, THE LATEST EDICT
BERLIN, FEB. 5.-The Reichsanzeiger
this evening publishes the text of an
imperial ordinance dated today and
worded as follows:
lin order to prevent the introduction
'of the San Jose shield louise, the i'm
portatioh OF living plants and fresh
plant refuse from America, also barrels
and boxes and other objects used in the
packing or keeping thereof is prohibited
until further notice.
"The same prohibition applies to the
dispatch of fresh fruit and fresh fruit
refuse, whenever the examination made
at place of entry may establish the
presence of the San Jose louse.
This prohibition does not apply in
any way to the goods which enter by
ships and remain on the ships. The i'm
perial chancellor Is empowered to grant
exceptions and to take the necessary
precautionary measures"
- A GROWING BUSINESS
r WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-An advance
statement of the bureau of statistics
shows a remarkable increase in the re-
cent shipments of fruit from the Knitted
States to Germany. During the last six
months, ended December 31st, the ship
ments of fruits, green, dried and pre-
served, and nuts, aggregated $4,000 in
excess of the exports for the entire fiscal
year 1897 For the fiscal year these ship
ments are given as follows:
= For 1894, $12S,421 1895, 1921 ,645; 1896.
$715,254; 1897, $1,OS0,SO4. First half of
1Sg8,, 81. .217. 49,,
J. sThesexports during the last six months
are classified as follows:
I Dried apples. $342,5Os; prunes, 1856, ,316;
raisins. sl4,5S7; apples, green or ripe.