The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-01
EMPEROR WILLIAM
HAS RETURNED
Causes a Revival of Political
Activity
THE ANGL O-GERMAN TREATY
DR.. Won Mann Remarked That the
American Demand Had Been
Known All Along and Was
Agreed to From First

Berlin, November 3O.-With Emperor Will
revival of political activity in Berlin. His
majesty arrived at New Palace about
o'clock This morning, and by 10 o'clock he
was receiving the representatives of his
civil and military cabinets.
the first Official to be received was Cen
epal Won Hahnecke, chief of the military
cabinet. He was followed by the Prince
Regent of Brunswick, who related his ex-
perience in Spain fortnight ago on
special mission to confer the Order of the
Black Eagle upon King Alfonso. All day
the kaiser remained at Potsdam. Among
the officials who have arrived to see him,
from various parts of the empire, ds DR..
Won Mumm Won Schwarstein, who since his
arrival from Washington has been at his
home DR.. Won Mumm had a long confer
ence this afternoon with Count Won Bue-
low, the foreign minister, and this even
ing he gave to the Associated Press gen.
eral summary of the present relations Ger
many has with the United States, speak
ing cautiously with reference to commercial
issues, especially the meat and fruit ques-
tions. He remarked that there was
considerable difference of opinion regarding
these matters and that Germany was still
justly complaining of discrimination against
German sugar.
When the correspondent of the Assocl-
ated Press suggested the great difficulty
of reaching a satisfactory settlement of
commercial differences at the present time,
especially in view of the fact that the
tion on meat and Germany is awaiting the
new tariff schedule, and also is unwilling
to prejudice pending negotiations with 9TH
er important countries relative to CONNER
cial traaties by prematurely concluding
one, DE-. Won Mum did not consent, and
later in the interview he virtually adopted
the suggestion.
Disclosing the present political relations
between the two powers, the German di-
pomatist spoke freely, declaring that the
Samoan agreement was cause of salts
factic. 20 all three powers, and had re-
moved u powder cask" from International
politics. 1t was nonsense, he asserted, to
say that the United States still refused to
ratify the Anglo-German agreement alleg-
ing that as matter of fact when he left
Washington an agreement had already
been reached.
Demand Had Been Known
Dr. Won Mum remarked that the Ameri-
can demand in the partition project had
been known all along, and was agreed to
from the first-namely, the possession of
Tutila, with a safe harbor at Pago-Pago,
and the other islands subsidiary to it.
The celebration of Thanksgiving Day at
the Kaiserhof this evening was one of the
largest and most successful celebrations in
the history of the American. colony in Ber-
lin Nearly 5000 persons were present,
students. John B. Jackson, secretary of
the United States embassy, presided and
among those present were United States
Consul General Mason, Senator Mitchell,
Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm of Cleveland; DR..
and Mrs. Norton Downs, of Philadelphia;
Professor Carhart, of Ann Arbor; DR..
Dlckie Hammond of Cornell, and Professor
Stevens, of Yale.
Professor Stevens made the only speech,
dwelling upon the debt Americans owe to
German science, as testified by the number
of American students in Berlin. He raised
a cheer by adding that, while recognizing
her debt to Germany, America could not
forget the ties binding her to England
1--WE are England's loyal daughter he
said, despite the fact that she has not
always treated us as mother should a
child