The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31

IN a teacup, over a miserable question
Of court etiquette, it has occupied the
press to the exclusion of almost every
thing else A high official of the min
istry Of the interior has briefly out
lined the facts III the case to the cor
respondent of the Associated Press.
They are as follows:
The regent was already offended on
account OF various alleged Sights, for
which he blamed the emperor. when
the general commanding the troops IN
the principality ordered his soldiers
henceforth not to make the salute
prescribed in the case Of ruling SOW
ereigns, or to show the customary
marks of respect to the regents fam
lily. The regent, thereupon, deeming
his rights under the military conven-
ton of 1873 to have been sighted, ap-
pealed to the emperor in a personal
letter for redress. T1iis letter contained
several passages which We're construed
by his majesty to be-purpOsely often
sive, whereupon he sent the regent
telegram. which traversed a dozen
hands and thence reached the news
papers substantially verbatim. Then
followed the deeply offended regents
appeal to the sOvereigns of Germany
and to the bundesrath. The matter
is expected to remain in statu quo for
some time.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learns from another source that
Emperor Williams anger was particu-
larry aroused by certain references in
the regents letter to the empress and
her family, a parallel being drawn on
the question of rank in both cases. and
his majesty's ire was incensed by the
fact that the legislature of Lippe-Det-
mold, at the regents beheSt, and with
out awaiting the decision of the bun
desrath, passed law in March preju-
dicing the chances of the succession of
Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-Lip
Emperor Williams brother-in-law.
The majority of the newspapers up
hold the regent. A Bavarian editor,
Herr Momminger, VINO first published
the story, publicly declares that he
only refrains for patriotic reasons
from publishing further details of the
goings-on at Berlin
AMERICANS MISREPRESENTED.
The newspapers here continue to mis-
understand or misinterpret the temper
of the Americans. They assert that the
latter are ready for peace on almost
any terms, provided Cuba is granted
independence, and that the war is most
unpopular, especially in business cir
Giles, and in spite of the phenomenal
successes the Americans have already
secured, the military editors continue
to assert that the United States will
find it more and more difficult to
achieve an ultimate military success,
especially in Cuba
As reason for the delay in pressing
the German merchants claims for
damages which are alleged to have
arisen through the war in the Philip
pines, it is explained that the German
government considers that to push the
claims now, while the Americans are
more or less incensed against Ger
MANY - WNnl6 raraindfpo la
settlement of the claims.
1t is now certain that the government
viii make a determined effort in the
coming reichstag to amend the consti-
tuition in the direction of abridging the
franchise in several important particu-
lars, especially in raising the age limit
from 25 to 30 years. Not only is the
conservative and reactionary press
vigorously advocating this as a nee
essary step in fighting the increasing
spread of socialism, but the govern
ment press has Joined in the hue and
cry.
WAR ON AMERICAN PRODUCTS.
1t is also certain that at the next
session of the diet and reichstag the
agrarians viii vigorously assault Amer
lean agricultural products The agra
rians are now collecting a mass Of evil
oence tending to show the injury which
has been caused TO the home market by
the continued Importation Of Ameri-
can products. Among their arguments
they allege that 80 per cent of the trich-
lnosis in Germany is due to American
pork, although the latter is only one
fprueth Of the total German cOnsumD-
ton. They also claim that American
pork is l46 times more trichinous than
the German, and they alleEe that. in
spite of the fact that American pork
IS officially testified to be free from
trichinae, the Hamburg authorities
have officially reported 173 cases of I
American trichinous pork during the
last six months.
The agrarians also assert that Amer !
lean flour is arriving in a more and
more frequently grossly adulterated
condition, adding that the prevailing
medium of adultera ton are mineral /
ines, which, they assert. are openly ad-
Nertised in American trade papers.
Finally, the agrarians say that an in
creasingly large percentage of Ameri-
can canned and preserved meat Of
every description is arriving in a state
unfit for human food. The agrarians /
claim TO have abundant proof of their /
allegations. and will ask the govern I
ment TO totally exclude from Germany j
al the products mentioned.
a TARIFF WAR.
The leading organ of the agrarians. /
the Deutsche Tages Zeitung, asks (
V neither, in view Of the fact that (
America means TO refuse Germany the !
rights Of the most favored nation. after J
concluding 2 new tariff bargain with I
France, the government does not think /
il time to open a spirited tariff war"
pointing ont, for one thing, that Amer
lean bicycles ought to be taxed to a /
prohibitory duty
The recent general prohibition OF (
meat imports has caused a rise in
prices, and $50 butchers in Hamburg
and vicinity acknowledge their inability /
to sell n.eat except at 10 to 20 per cent /
has already become effective in Ber-
lin.
The sensational suicide of General
Won Pechmann, the commander of the /
Fifth Bavarian cavalry brigade, at |
Dieuze, Lorraine, is much commented |
upon. 1t is understood that his act is
due to depression, caused by the ma
fevolence OF a very high parsonage,
who repeatedly obstructed his advance
ment TO a higher rank.
Al the principal comic papers in Ger
may were confscated this week on ac-
count of their publication of cartoons
ridiculing the emperor and the police
Some of these papers viii be prosecut-
ed on the charge of lese majestic
Herr Lieber, the Centrist leader, has
Started for the United States.
The death of Or. Won Rokitanslky OF
Grant,, a son of the celebrated Viea-
nese professor Won Rokitansky, calls to