Arizona republican., 1899-04-19

been retained during a quarter Of
 century of almost constant bickerings
 with a tenacity wholly ineXplicable
 to many, doubtless Will be maintained Wi h q st.ll firmer grip if need be, even Tthough il happen. as the English press
 affirms, that Germany prefers to fight rather than fCtego her pretensions at Apia.
 | ! The upshot Of the Meade expedition
 was tha. the protection clause i'll the T5ago Pago agreement was eliminated.
 and the United States set about secrr-
 ing the ratification of the modified ar
 ticles by the king of al! the Samoans.
 To this end a certain Baron" Stein
 berger was, in 1S75 sent to Samoa by
 ezident Grant, empowered to act as
 special agent of the United States,
 1t in reality he went as the secret
 agent of the GCdeffroys. This piece of
 d4plicity fairly illusa-ates German l tactics throughout the entire affair.
 Steinberger undertook to secretly
 aid the Godefroys in scheme to
 acquire the financial and political con- | trol Of the islands, and thus defeat the | openly-avowed purposes of the United l States. Malietoa and Tupua resigned ' as joint kings, and Steinberger in duced 'Malietoa to make war on Tupua. i Provided with arms by the Go-mans i'll exchange for land at Apia, Ma.ie- | toa vanquished his r.val, and become sole king. He chose St54nberger as \ his prime minister, and the advent 'urer who had betrayed his trust prac-
 itically wore the crown for a time. He 3verreached himself however, and was
 dismissed and banished as soon as Is real character and intentions were discovered
 After Steinbergers downfall the Germans enraged by Malie5oa's oppo- s3tion to their plans, espoused the cause of Tupua, and Malietoa was in tu rn compelled to aibdicate He rallied his forces, however, and forced his way back to powe-. His position was strengthened by the official recogni- tio n of the United States government, which saw in the discontinue over the GeFmans an opportunity to secure the confirmation Of the Pago Pago cession, having been thus far checkmated in its efforts % close the negotiations.
 In 1876 the Samoan government sent a special envoy to Washington to invite the United States to recognize and protect it's independence, to es- ta'blfsh commercial relations with the people, and to assist them in forming a stable government. A treaty em- Eodying these propositions, together with the Pago Pago concession, was sign9d at Washington in 1878, and a survey of the harbOr in Tutuila island was pade with a view 70 taking poses | sion of the privilege ceded by Samoa MaEetoa also concluded important treaties with Great Britain and Ger manyJ and afker another civil war Maietoa's government was conjointly | recognized in 1879 by the consuls Of the United Stat les, Germany and Great BritaiR, acting toge aher for the first | | me officially. The same year con Vention was agreed to by the three powers and Samoa by which the ad- of the city of Aloia was assumed by the consular authorities for thr4e years, at the end Of which in 1882, the convention was continued in definitely. Meanwhile Telavao had succeeded to the throne and soon be- came Involved in a dispute with the acting German consui. The new Nal ietoa was forced I by threats to sign an agreement which practically put the control of affairs in German hands. Two yea1s later the king complained to the German emperor hat the treaty was {wrung from him y lntimidatiOn and that the German consul, Weber, was arming the rival portion of natives and encouraging hem to evClt
 All alonI Ig German Action had been n the direct interest ICf the Hamburg Commercial & Plantation company, he successor of GOdefflroy & Son. The company. however, ha Il become em- 1aTrassed through interfering with samoan politics, and Bismarck came o the rescue by ser hing Admiral AnoTt with squ&dronl to Apia, in S86, with 4ne evident | intention of ,reatIng state of affaiks that would cad to German annexatidn
 Malietoa IeIavao appealed to ConsuI ireenebauml to proclaim An American temporarily jby virtue of he supposed promise of the UniteI States to e1tend protection in the vent of diff kulties with f pcaign pow IS. The fftIh article of tp pe treaty of SITS was so construed byl the consul, nd he decl ared a prosec torate, al hough, whatAver it's covert intention, he clause dip not, indeed, promise