The age-herald., 1898-02-06
FOUND BUGS IN
 THREE PEACHES Mas Germany'S Reason for Excluding
 American Fruit. OVERBEARING AMERICANS Must Learn That Germany Has an Ener-
 setiC Government. EASTERN AFFAIRS SEEN IN LONDON Little Reliable Information Expected Until the Parliamentary Debate is Ended--Ta Lien Story Was Never Created by the
 Officials in Charge.
EASTERN AFFAIRS SEEN IN LONDON

reichstag and the Prussian diet conceded this week to the agrarians who formulated numerous wishes and complaints is sig nlficant. The minister of agriculture, Baron yon Characterization promised the government would grant as many of their demands as possible.
 At the moment he was making this dec- laration measures were preparing to stop the imports of American fruit and de- | cree in that connection had already been issued. The entire liberal press openly dis- approves of the policy and assert 1t was 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 meas ures are bound to produce in America and to the futility of prohibiting the importa- tion of an article Germany does not pro- duce with sufficency. The newspapers 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 fruits.
 l Discovered Bugs In Three Specimens.
 Dr. Friedreich Won Kueger of the Agri- cultural High school, upon whose report i the authorities here are understood to have acted, has been making extensive series of experiments and examinations of the American plants and fruits supposed to be infected by the San Jose bug. After many failures he finally discovered the bug in three specimens of peaches and pears. 1 Dr. Heinrich Dorhru, president of the En- tomological Society of Stettin, writes that the San Jose bug has long been known In Germany as the blut-laus, and 1t has de- vastated orchards in various parts of the country, especially in the neighborhood of Frankfort and Stettin. He adds:
 1.-The present scare is unjustifiable as the late Colorado bug scare"
 The United States embassy is continuing I its remonstrances as a protest against the | unfounded rumors, alleging that it Was weakening. Several of the newspapers ex- press the opinion that the decree will. not l be permanent, and that it was only in- tended as a temporary act of retaliation for American treatment of German sugar. 1 Only Forerunners.
 Inquiry made at the foreign office and at the Prussan agricultural department, 1 however, shows the steps taken to be only forerunners of others of more im-
 
 that something must be done to gratify the agrarian demand for retaliation on the United States. There was an exemplifca- tion in the reichstag on Tuesday, when Dr. Hahn, a friend of Prince Bismarck, de- manded the prohibition of American horses, claiming the imports had in- creased in 1897 to 4,279OO0 marks and that something must be done to ''show those ] aorip | German government exists
 The views of the Prussian cabinet are 1 gaugeable by declaration made yester- day by the minister of agriculture, Baron Von Hammerstein-Loxten, in the diet, who declared that American horses devel- oped influenza after importation, adding: "If the importations increase we shall cer- tainly be forced to adopt suitable quar- antine in order to protect ourselves"
 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 German sugar is reduced 20 per cent from the present scale and an assurance given that no other country will be more favorably treated.
 EASTERN SITUATION
 | AS SEEN IN LONDON.
 London, Feb. 5.-H is probable but little ] further eliable information regarding China will be obtained until the ministers have chance to round on their assailants dur ing the course of the debate in parliament on the address in reply to the speech from | the throne.
 The explicit statement of the situation l furnished to the Associated Press on Thursday last is, however sufficient in- sight into the facts and shows that the press has wasted coniderable amount Of | hyterical alarm which, curiously enough | is more prevalent among the government | supporters than among the opposition pa- pers.. After all. the perturbation will not have been wasted if it Serves to convince the government of the terrible earnestness of the country over the matter and how it will resent any weakness or bungling. It must be remembered that the whole Ia Lien Wan story never received shadow of official sanction. As cab!ed to the As 1 sociated Press on Thursday last, Great | Britain has never demanded that Ia Lien | Wan be made a treaty port It was really | one of the suggested constituents of the bargain, and if it should be withdrawn it | can be only because it is a barrier to the 1 negotiations for the loan. The object of | the condition was to check the scheme for l the transformation of Port Arthur into | closed Russian port and the object was equally secured by exacting from China and Russia to get pledge in regard to Port Arthur, similar to the pledge exaoted | from them in regard to Corea before the evacuation of Port Hamilton and this win | probably be the upshot Not Round to Japan.
 The semi-official statements distinctly point thereto, notably the specific assur- ance early in the week in regard to the temporary nature of the Russian tenure of Port Arthur, which was accompanied
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