The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-15

win be valid throughout the empire and
supercede the various local inspections
which are often prompted by a panic
arising from isolated trichinae cases. justly
| or unjustIy attributed to foreign meats.
| We have been laboring 20 obtain this in
| spection for long time and now have
! strong hopes of a successful issue. There
7 are unreasonable men on both sides Of the
! Atlantic, but we believe the reasonable
/ men here and in America ere in the ma
/ jorIty and they are more and more IN
! Outstanding the Importance of good reIa-
! tons between the two countries.
Regarding the question OF acquisitions
/ in the Pacific and elsewhere the feeling
! Of the two governments is excellent. The
! German foreign Office shows every desire
| that this state of things should continue
/ and the German officers in every way
I work in harmony with US In the Pacific
! as elsewhere, there is not the slightest
/ cause at present for the slight i'll feeling
| arising out Of the ambitions Of either pow
er' and all questions are being steadily
placed on a better footing"
The bundesrath considered the meat in
spec-ion bill this week, and the favorable
view taken Of the measure BY the Ameri.
can ambassador is contrasted by the fact
that the Agrarian press this week very
severely criticised the bill.
The Deutsche Tagezeitung. commenting
upon the Cologne Gazette's discussion OF
the biz on January ?. when that paper
took the ground that the measure E-ould
be in no way detrimental, but rather ad-
vanta geous, to American meat describes
the measure as being ''unheard Of grovel-
ing before the United States" and pre-
diets that the reichstag viii not confirm
such q bill.
The Deutsche Agarar Correspondence
which, as the organ Of the Federal ton Of
Husbandry recently fercely attacked the
scientific attache OF the American embassy
for having in the German press disposed
OF false statements set a1gat by that body.
goes even further than the Tagezeitung.
heaping abuse upon those who are respon-
sibLe for framing the bill and on the mea-
sure itself, declaring thai it IS utterly i'm
possible for the reichstag to indorse some
Of the provisions OF the Dill, especially the
one delega ting 70 the bdndesrath its own
powers Of prohibition.
On the other hand, the liberal press wei
comes the moderate provisions Of the bill /
The Vossische ZeitUug says.
II the Agrarians had their own wav /
Germany ere this would have been in the |
throes Of a tariff war with the whole /
world England, Russia, Argentina and |
every agricultural and exporting country"
The Tageblatt remarks that il Rhenish /
paper is correctly informed the bill viii
not be approved by the Agrarians. for,
the Tageblatt adds. the latter declare that
they intend to have it framed so as to
prevent American imports. This causes
the Tageblatt TO say:
1t would be an enjoyable symptom If
the government began to show a little
more backbone toward the Agrarians"
Official statistics of German exports 70
the United States show that they amount
ed during the last quarter, in the northern
half OF Germany. excluding the Zittau
consulate, to s12. .161, compared with So
o2A947 in 1887. In the southern half the
German exports 70 the United States
amounted to S. a5,1Ss, being an increase Of
S526,539. The total increase for the past
quarter amounted to about $4,000 600,
mainly due to sugar exports which came
to a standstnl during the last quarter OF
1897. The total exports for BeS, however.
show a decrease when compared with
hose of 1897. This also is mainly traceabIe
10 sugar. Of which from the Brunswick I
alone the exports diminished
over $2,500.O0o.
The semi official Berlin Post, SUMMARY
ng Germany 5 export trade for 1Ss-,. says,
elerring to the United States. that except
ns in the one item Of suga~. Germany's ?
Exports were not nearly so poo- as Il was Z
A. first feared they would be.
A strong movement il favor Of a rro-
ectivc tariff has been set on foot by the
loruculturists Of Germany. 4 meeting Of
'ver 1000 OF them has addressed a strongly
vorded petition 10 the imperial govern !
nent reciting their reasons for demanding
protection. The minister OF the interior,
COUNT Won Posadovssky- Wehner. has sum
noned the president Of the or-A1izAd5n {
o furnish him with additional ineolma-
ion on the subject and there is reason
0 believe that the government intends to
lass measure which Will have the horst
uIturists' views.