The San Francisco call., 1898-02-05
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-When the cable as to the prospective quarantine of American horses was shown to Chairman Hit of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he said this move was clearly part of the general move ment toward exclusion shown by the recent action against American fruit. His colleague on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Adams of Pennsylvania, said the dispatch suggested that 1t was time to discover bacillus in the German wines. and it would be desirable also to determine as to the sanitary character of the process of making German sugar sent to the United States. Cousins of Iowa. another member of the Foreign Affairs committee, Said: Our State Department should give distinct notice that If there is any desire to stop trade with us this should be done In a straightforward way, and not by in- directly attacking our products on san- itary grounds.
 Chairman Dingley of the Ways and Means Committee spid this was in line with the German action on American fruit. Quarantine was not an absolute prohibition, however, and 1t remained to be seen whether a quarantine so vigorous as to be prohibition would be put in force.
 The officials of the Agricultural De- partment emphatically discredit the probability of American horses carry ing influenza into Germany, and say that if they do develop it after import ation, it Is contracted from animals in hot Sta of German Minister of Agriculture, Secre tary Wilson says, are unwarranted.
 Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said: 50 far as the Department of Agriculture is aware, there is no influenza prevailing in this country. It is a disease common to horses, and possibly may be present in places of which we have no informa- tion, but this is improbable. The horses which are exported are not inspected, but if an animal has the disease it will recover or die before the trans Atlantic journey Is made. The period of the duration of the disease is about two weeks"
 The growth of the shipments of Am erican horses to Europe in the past few years has been enormous. These shipments in 1897 aggregated in value S4,765, ,265, as against $718,607 in 1893. The value of those sent to Germany in 1897 was sS22,250, as compared with $79,950 in 1893
 The State Department has been mo- tified by Ambassador White at Berlin of the modification of the original de- cree issued by the Drussian Minister of Finance, pr. Miquel. prohibiting the importation of American fruit Ac- cordng to the Ambassadors cable to- day the decree does not, as he advised yesterday, apply to dried fruits, while fresh fruits will be admitted to entry if an examination shows it's condition to be satisfactory. If this modification has been made in the decree 1t would appear that the prompt representa- tions made by the United States have received an equally prompt considera- tion on the other side It is certain that if the decree as originally promulgated had been applied to the shipments of fruit In transit, as it's terms indicated the shippers would have had a right to claim indemnity from the Prussian Government for the damages sustained by them, and it would be regarded by the United States Government as a matter of duty to sustain this demand for indemnity.
 The State Department Is now obliged to wait the receipt of full advices of the exact nature of the modified de- cree and watch it's workings
 White last evening lodged another formal protest with Baron von Buelow, as in spite of the Bundesrath's resolu- ton American fresh fruit is everywhere excluded.
 The United States Consul at Dussel- dorf telegraphed to-day that only dried fruits had been released, and that there were about 11,000 barrels of apples in the bonded warehouse there.
 The United States Embassy during the week has been flooded with appeals from fruit merchants, dealers and ship pers who have been injured by the de- cree. and all of them have thanked White for the vigorous measures he
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