The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-06
THE FRUIT DEGREES
II.E Liberal PRESS DISCOUR-
AGE THE DEPARTURE.
ENGLANDS ATTITUDE AS TO CHINA
The Government VIII Be vndicateo in Dis
cussion Of Queens peech--Cayendish's
Expedition to the Nile Velvet All
The Go this Spring.

uiC w uHS OPHISs
Copyright, 1898, by Associated Prcss.l
Berlin, Feb. 5.-The freedoms which
the Reicllstag and the Prussian Diet
conceded this week to the Agrarians, who
formulated numerous wishes and conn
plaints, is significant. The Minister of
Agriculture, Baron Won Hammerstein-
LoNten, promised the government would
grant as many of their demands as
possible. At the moment he was making
this declaration measures were preparing
TO stop imports of American fruit and
the decree in that connection had al
ready been issued. lille entire Liberal
press openly diSapproves of the policy
and asserts it was a government trick
TO obtain the vote of the Agrarians for
Emperor 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 futihity of prohibiting the importa-
tion of an article Germany does not
produce with suffciency The newspa-
pers claim the only result will be that
fruit will be imported from the south
OF Europe at a higher cost than is now
being paid for American fruit
Several of the newspapers express the
opinion that the decree will not be per
manent, and that it was only intended
az n temporary act Of retaliation for
American treatment of German sugar.
Inquiry made at the Foreign Office and
ut the Prussian Agricultural Depart
meft, 4lowever, shows the steps taken to
lie the only 'foreruni1ers- of others Of
more Importance. the government having
concluded that something must be done
TO crafty the Agrarian demand for re-
taiiation on the United States. There was
an eXemplifcation in tha Reichstag, on
Tuesday, when Du Hahn, friend of
Prince Bismarck, dena nded the prohibi
fiUn of American horses, claiming the
imports had increased in 1897 TO ,279.-
900 marks. and that something must be
done Ito show those oyer-bearing Am
eI3cans that an energetic German gov
ernment exists" The views of the PIgIs-
sian Cabinet are gaugeable by the de-
claration made yesterday by the Minister
of Agriculture, Baron Won Hammerstein-
Loxten, in the Diet, who declared that
American horses developed influenza af-
ter importation.
1t is said THAT Prince Maximilian. of
Baden, who has hitherto fatty refused
to marry, will shortly be betrothed to
Princess Pauline, of Wurtembarg, in
whose honor emperor Francis Joseph
gave a big court ball IL week ago.
ENGLAND TO BE INDICATED.
Copyright 1893 by Associated Pressl
London, Feb. 5.-CSpecial London ca.
bic letter)-It is probable that but little
further reliable information regarding
China will be obtainable until the Min
listers have chance to round on their
assailants during the course of the de-
bate in Parliament on the address in re-
ply to the speech from the throne.
The whole Ta-Liem-Wan story never
received shadow of official sanction.
As cabled to the Associated Press on
Thursday last, Great Britain has never
demanded that Ta-Iien-Wan be made
q treaty port 1t was merely one of the
suggested constituents Of the bargain
and il it should be withdrawn it can
only be because it is a barrier to the
negotiations for the loan. The object of
the condition was to checkmate any
scheme for the transformation OF Port
Arthur into closed Russian port and
the object was equally secured by exact
ing from China and Russia together a
pledge in regard to Port Arthur, similar
10 the pledged exacted from them in re-
gard to Corea, before the evacuation u
Port Hamilton and this will probably
be upshot. The semi-official statements
distinctly point thereto, notably the
specific assurance early in the week III
regard TO the temporary nature OF the
Russian tenure of the Port Arthur.
which was accompanied by the partlai
~~apce that Great Britain is not
bound to Japan by any warlike alliance.
In short, there is every reason to belleve
that Great Britain does not intend to re-
cedc an inch from the position which
has been officially taken up by MessrS.
BalfOur, Chamberlain and Hicks-B Beach,
in the name Of the Marquis of Salisbury.
In the course of an interesting ad-
dress ut Bradford, before the Chamber
Of Commerce Of that place, on Thursday
last, the United States Consul, Erastus
s. Day, applauded the Marquis of Sails
bury's doctrine of free trade in China.
He said that America had every sympa-
thy with it and that the people of Great
Britain and the United States ought 10
lead in shaping the worlds thought and
action. He said they had the opportuni-
ty to achieve great things; would they
mite to achieve lasting benefits to them
selves and to the worlds
Speaking Of the tariff, Mr. Day said
the Overwhelming preponderance of SEN
timent in the United States was in favor
of the protective theory. The Wilson
bill, he added, had sickened the people