The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-15

4 SOS1S-lCQ
"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 rs. 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 IN
| 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
/ that reasonable men here and in Amer
| lea are in the majority and they are
more and more understanding the i'm
portance 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 mea-
inspection bill this week and TIE favor
able view taken of the measure by th'-
American ambassador is contraSted Dy
the fact that the agrarian press this
week were severely criticised the bill.
The Deutsche Tagezeitung, comment
ing upon the Cologne Gazette's discus
sion of the bill on Jan. 9, when that
paper took the ground that the meas
uTe would be in no way detrimental
but rather advantageous to American
meat, describes the measures 'unheard
of groVeljbg before the United States"
and predicts that the reichstag will not
confirm such a bill.
The Deutsch Agar Correspondence,
which, as the organ Of the federation
of HuSbandry, recently fercely attack
ed the scientific attache of the Ameri-
can embassy for having in the German
press disposed of false statements set
afioat by that paper and goes even FUR
Their than the Tagezeitung, heaplng
abuse upon those who are responsible
for framing the bill and on the meas
ure itself, declaring it is utterly impos-
sible for the reichStag majority to en-
dorse some of the essential provisions
of the bill, especially the one dele9ating
to the bundesrath its own powers of
prohibition. On the other hand, the
liberal press joyfully welcomes the
moderate provisions of the bill.
EXPORTS TO AMERICA.
Official statistics OF German exports
to the United States show that they
amounted during the last quarter in the
northern part of Germany, excluding
the Zittlau consulate, to $l2,502, l6l, C m
pared with S9,02l,947 in 1898. In the
southern half the German exports to
the United States amounted to SS,S15,-
1S9 being an increase of 1925, $50. The
total increase for the past quarter
amounted to about $5,090.000, mainly
due to- sugar exports, which came to
standstin during the last quarter of
1897. The total exports for 1888, how
ever, show q decrease when compared
with those of 1897. This also is mainly
traceable to sugar, OF which from the
Brunswick consulate alone the exports
diminished over $2,500, coo.
The semi-official Berlin Post, sum-
marking Germany'S export trade fer
1898, says, referring to the United
States, that, excepting in the one item
OF sugar, Germany's exports were not
nearly so poor as it was at first feared
they would be.
A strong movement in favor of a pro-
tective tariff has been set on foot by
the hCIticulturists of Germany. y
meeting of over 1000 of them has adj
dressed a Strongly-Worded petition to
the imperial government, reciting their
reasons for demanding protection. The
minister of the interior, Count Won
Posadovski Wehner, has summoned
the president of the organization TO
furnish him with additional intCrma-
ton on the subject, and there is rea-
son to b'i,eVe the government intends
to frafle a tariff measure which Will
meet the horticulturists' views.
TRIAL FOR TREASON.
a sensational high treason trial has
been fixed for next month before the
supreme court of Leipsig. The prison
er, Il Pole named GOldhumeT, claiming
to be a dealer in precious stones, was
at Metz on his arrival there
from Faris. 1t is said the evidence
collected Directly duplicates a number
of high government and military Of
fcers in France.
Some stir has been created by the
fact that the government organs. the
North German Gazette, the KFeuZ lei
tung, and other inspired journals this
week have published editorials repre-
senting that the two years military
service system adopted IN 1895 has not
proved a success.
officers retired from the Wurtemberg
army corps, at the instance of the en-
peror, has caused deep-seated dissatis-
faction. The Wurtemberg local news
papers point out that there are now |
l50 retired higher officers, many of |
them under As years of age, compared |
with seventy-seven in active service.
MONEY sTRINGENCY.
There is some anxiety in official cir
lies at the exceeding stringency of the
German money market, which, it is
-eared, may endanger the success of
he coming German and PrusSian loans.
fhese loans, 1t is now semi officially
set forth, amount to far less than 200,-
100000 marks, which it was originally !
would be the amount
Considerable Indignation is evfnced e
he unfavorable reports emanating
rom London concerning the economical
nd financial conditions of Germany,
md especially the statement that the
eading banks recently declined to ac-
ept Prussian bills for a large amount.
This statement is declared to be utter
y untrue, and calculated to unfavor-
ibly impress the German borrowers
With respect TO the impending loans
The National ZeituHg, in an inspired
lrucie. points out that the present
financial tightness is solely due to the
extraordinary expansion of German in
lustry, which has absorbed immense
Quantities Of capital, adding:
This led to a rise in the rate Of dis
cunt. and slight decline in Prussian
nd imperial loans. II, however, the
inanciers allow time for recuperation
f capital, for which the most favor
bile conditions are at hand; and if the
German financial undertakings abroad
re restricted for short period to