New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06
A SOP TO AGRARIANS.
r,rr, DECREE EXCLUDING AMERICAN
FRUITS FROM GERMANY.
,rxrso NOW OF SHUTTING OUT AMERICAN
CATTLE. HOGS AND HoRsES-THE

WALKING NOW OF SHUTTING OUT AMERICAN
CATTLE. HOGS AND HoRsEs-THE
SUGAR QUESTION.
psr,,n Feb. 5.-The "Reichsanzeiger' this
.veninr publishes the text of an imperial ordi-
nance. dated to-day. and worded as follows:
In order TO prevent the introduction of the San
lose shield louse. the importation OF living pants
and fresh plant refuse from America also par
rels and boxes and other objects used in the
hacking or keeping thereof is prohibited until
The same prohibition applies to the dispatch
~ fresh fruit and fresh fruit refuse from Amer
lea whenever the examination made at the place
Of entry may establish the presence OF the san
This prohibition does not apply in any way TO
goods which enter by ships and remain on the
The Imperial Chancellor is empowered to
grant exceptions and to take the necessary pre-
cautiOnary measures.
Dr Heinrich Dorhru, president Of the Ento-
roologicaI Society of Stettin. writes that the San
lose bug has long been known in Germany as
the blut-laus and has devastated orchards in
various parts Of the country, especially in the
ne,ehborhood OF Frankfort and Stettin. He
adds:
THE present scare is as untustlhed as the Ia'e
Colorado bug scare"
The United States Embassy is continuing ts
rernOnstrances. as a protest against the ui-
founded rumors alleging that II was weakening
The freedom which the Reichstag and the
Prussian Diet conceded this week TO the Agra
r,ans who formulated numerous wishes ana
complaints Is significant. The Minister or Ag-
r1cuture Baron Hammersteln-LoHteh'
promised that the Government would grant as
many Of their demands as possible AT the inO-
rnent he was making this declaration measures
were preparing 10 stop the imports OF American
fr,,it and the decree IN that connection had al
ready been issued The entire Liberal press
openly disapproves Of the policy. and asserts that
il was q Government trick to obtain the vote OF
the Agrarians for Emperor Williams Naval Dill
The leading commercial journals point to the i'll
will and Indignation such measures are pouhu
70 produce In America. and 10 the futilty OF
prohibiting the importation of an article Ger
many does not produce with suficiency. The
newspapers say that the only result will be
that fruit will be imported from the south of
T-urone at q higher cost than is now being paid
FOR American fruit.
DE Friedrich Won Kueger. of the Agricultural
High School. upon whose report the authorities
here are understood to have acted, has been
making an extensive series Of experiments and
examinations Of American plants and fruits sup
posed 10 be infected by the San Jose bug. After
many failures he finally discovered the bug in
three specimens Of peaches and pears.
Several Of the newspapers express lHe cIIH-
ion that the decree Will not be permanent. and
that il was only intended as temporary act or
retaliation for American treatment of German
sugar Inquiry made at the Foreign Once and
at The Prussian Agricultural Department. how
ever shows the steps taken to be only fore
runners Of others Of more Importance, the Gov
ernr1ent having concluded that something must
be done to crafty the Agrarian demand for re-
taMaton on the United States. There was an
oxemphncaton in the Reichstag on Tuesday,
when Dr. Hahn, a friend Of Prince Bismarck.
demanded the prohibition Of American horses.
asserting that the imports had Increased IN
must be done Ito show those overbearing Ameri-
cans that an energetic German Government ex-
ists' The views Of the PrCssian Cabinet are
in the declaration made yesterday by the
Minister Of Agriculture. Baron Won Hammer
stein-LoXten, in the Diet, who declared that
American horses developed Influenza after i'm
pOrt2tiOn. adding:
IT the impOrtdtions increase we shall GER
tainly he forced 10 adopt a suitabl quarantine
IN order 10 protect ourselves"
The total exclusion Of all living cattle and
hogs is also under consideration.
The sugar producers have petitoned the I'm
peTial 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 assur-
ance given that no oJher country will be more
favorably treated
The Government is disagTeeably disappointed
al The considerable diminutiOn Of the imports
duties and taxes Of the last six months of 1891.
In December alone they fell off 5000 900 marks
owing to the enormous decrease in the sugar
the large appropriations asked for in the Naval