The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-24
GERNANY'S COMPLAINT
American Tariff Determinations
Will Cause Complications.
FRANCE RECEIVES FAvORS
NEGOTIATIONS OPENED BY TIE
TWO GOVERNMENTS.
Reductions Granted to France Must
Be Extended to Other European
Nations : Regent of Lippe-Dot-
mold Rebels Against the Emperor
Appeals to the Bundesrath.

mold Rebels Against the Emperoi
Appeals to the Bundesrath.
Copyright 1923. by the Associated 7ress.
Berlin, July $50 far as the United
States embassy here is concerned
nothing is known OF any negotiation.
or communications whatever between
the United States and German govern
nlents relative to any Spanish colonies,
said AIr. Andrew D. White, United
States ambassador, in an interview
with the correspondent here of the As
ISOLATED Press.
Besides" continued Mr.. White
there has been no question at any
time between this embassy and the
German foreign office relative to the
German desire for a coaling station in
the Philippines, nor for possession OF
any of the islands there; neither has
there been any discussion of Germany S
wish to secure any other Spanish col
onies. To express such wishes, which
we are unaware Of, would be, at the
pre- sent moment above all. premature.
There have been important negOtia-
lions begun between the United States
and Germany. but it is too early to
talk about that now"
From another source the correspond
ent of the Associated Press hears that
the negotiations to which Mr.. White
refers. relate TO the tariff bill He has
been unable to obtain an official con-
nrmation OF this at the German tor-
e;gn office.
Emperor William is kept continually
informed Of all events connected with
the war between Spain and the United
States, and OF the developments at
Washington. Madrid and Berlin. Regu-
lar reports are sent to him to points
on the Norwegian coast, where he
makes stops while on mis- tour of Nor
way. a large batch of dispatches con-
tanning the latest news of the war was
sent this week by special courier 10
Digormullon.
Baron Vo2 Bulow, the minister for
foreign affairs, is absent on summer
leave. but he is expected back in a
fortnight.
TONE OF THE PRESS.
The tone of the German press this
week is less friendly to the United
States than the week before, and the
latest DEVELOPMENTS in the war have
been, in many cases, commented upon
in a rather sarcastic spirit. The lib
eral press, though, has adopted, gen.
orally speaking, a fair and more neu-
trail tone.
The Vossiche Zeitung printed an edi-
torial in which it intimated that 1t
wished the United States speedy sue
cess, and referred to the ''unbroken
friendship existing for SO many years
between the two countries"
Other liberal papers of Importance,
like the Madgeburg Zeitung and the
Weser Zeitung, express themselves in
the same vein.
Referring to the failure of the late
sugar conference. and to the agreement
between France and the United States
regarding tariff reductions, the Kreutz
Zeitung says:
Should America refuse to grant
these tariff reductions to Germany and
the other European states as well, in
spite of the most favored nation trea-
ties. there viii be serious complications.
To refuse this to Germany would be all
the more unfair, since America was
made to share. when we concluded our
commercial treaties in 1892, in the large
reductions that were then in force,
without being asked to grant US any
equivalent
REGENT IN DISFAVOR.
It is well known fact in diplomatic
circles in Berlin that the relations be-
tween the regent officer at Lippe-Dot-
mold and the emperor of Germany have
peror's brother-in-law, Prince Adolph
of Schaumburg-Lippe was ousted from
the office, owing to the final decision
rendered against him by the court of
presided over by the king
of Saxony, and alleged instances of the
ill-will towards the new re-
gent of the Lippe-Dotmold have been
current here for some time past. But
matters nave now assumed a pass
which makes the affair one of national
Count Ernest, the pres
ent regent, has been repeatedly slight
ed by the emperor lately, in such q |
way as to have induced him to seek |
redress before the forum of the bun
desrath, before which the emperor is |
no more than the regent of Lippe-Dot- |
mold. The delegate of Lippe-Dotmold |
has, therefore, brought his sovereign's |
formally before the bundles
rath, begging that the emperor may be |
held to render TO the regent of Lippe-
Dotmcld the measure of respect which |
The constitution OF the empire says is /
his due The regent, at the same time,
sent strongly worded detailed auto
graph letters to all the other rulers of
Germany, in which, after setting forth
he instances OF serious slight to which
le claims to have been subjected, he
summons all the German sovereigns to
see that justice is done him. He also
;ays that what has happened to him
nay happen to them next, and that the
Emperor by outraging the principle of
legitimacy in his case, endangerS the
cry foundation on which the thrones
# all the German sovereigns rest
The emf error has recalled the Prus-
ian representatives at the court of
Ootmold.
The last straw, the one which induced
he regent Of Lippe-DotmOld 10 appeal
o the bundesrath, was brought about
" the refusal of the officers Of the Dot
mold garrison to pay to the members
f the family of the regent the honors
he latter considered due, whereupon
e vainly appealed II the general in
ommand, and the latter referred the
rhole matter to Emperor William, who |
ent the regent the following reply:
My general has orders to render to
he regent what belongs to the regent;
othing more. As for the rest, ] object
D the tone in which you have allowed .
ourself to couch your letter"
ARMY CHANGES.
A comprehensive bill. providing for a
lumber of important changes in the s
erman army, is still being drafted by
lie ministries of war and finance, but
s provisions are il no way settled.
-owever, whatever changes in the j
rmy the reichstag may be asked TO q
inction viii be for five years. 7
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