The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
RELATIONS WITH
GERMANY IMPROVE
ambassador White Is
Most Sanguine.
MEAT BILL SATISFACTORY
NO STRAIN CAUSED BY NEW
POSSESSIONS IN PACIFIC.
Berlin Newspapers Declare That In
spection Concessions Will Not
Be Made to the
United States.
Copyrighted, 1899. by the Associated Press.

copyrighted, lSy9. by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 1.-THE United States
ambassador, Andrew D. White, said
to the correspondent of the Associated
Press to-day for publication:
Our relations with Germany are
thoroughly good and are steadily i'm
proving. look to the proposed meat
inspection as a step calculated to help
rather than hurt us. What thinking
men on each side wish to secure is a
single inspection which will be valid
throughout the empire and supersede
the various local inspections which are
often prompted by a panic arising from
isolated trichinae cases, justly or I'M
justly attributed to foreign meats. We
have been laboring to obtain this in
spection for a long time and now have
strong hopes of a successful ISSUE
There are unreasonable men on both
sides of the Atlantic, but we believe the
reasonable men here and in America
are in the majority and they are more
and more understanding the import
ance of good relations between the two
countries.
Regarding the question of acquisi-
tons in the Pacific and elsewhere the
feeling of the two governments is ex-
cellent. The German Foreign Office
shows every desire that this state of
things should continue and the German
officials in every way work in harmony
with us. In the Pacific as elsewhere
there is not the slightest cause at pres
out of the ambitions of either power
and all questions are being steadily
placed on better footing"
The Bundesrath considered the meat
inspection bill this week, and the favor
able view taken of the measure by the
American ambassador is contrasted by
the fact that the Agrarian press this
week very severely criticised the bill.
The Deutsche Tagezeitung, comment
ing upon the Cologne Gazette's discus
sion of the bill on January 8, when that
paper took the ground that the measure
would be in no way detrimental, but
rather advantageous to American meat,
describes the measures .'unheard Of
groyeling before the United States
and predicts that the Reichstag will
not confirm such a bill.
The Deutsche Agrar- Correspondence,
which, as the organ of the Federation
of Husbandry, recently fiercely at
tackled the scientific attache of the
American embassy for having in the
German press disposed of false state
meuts set afloat by that body, goes even
further than the Tagezeitung, heaping
abuse upon those who are responsible
for framing the bill and on the meas
ure itself, declaring 1t is utterly impos-
sible for the Reichstag majority to in
dorse some of the essential provisions of
the bill, especially the one delegating
to the Bundesrath it's own powers of
prohibition.
On the other hand, the Liberal press
joyfully welcomes the moderate provi-
sions Of the bill. The Vossische Zeitung
says: IF the Agrarians had their own
way Germany ere this would have been
in the throes of a tariff war with the
whole world-England, Russia. Argen-
tine and every agricultural and export
ing country"
The Tageblatt remarks that If a