The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-28
AN EMBARGO REMOVED
GERMANY ANNULs RESTRICTIONS ON
AMERICAN FRUIT.
VIII Hereafter Admit Oranges, Lem
Ons and Raisins without Exnmina-
ton other Concessions

BERLIN, Feb. M.-The officials of the
German Foreign Office have notified the
United States embassy that the government
will henceforth admit American oranges,
lemons and raisins without examination,
and also that all American fresh and dried
fruit will be allowed to pass in bond
through Germany without being examined,
The decisions are based on the favorable
reports of the German experts sent to
America. The question whether dried fruits
sent abroad is harmless. especially for the
transmission of San Jose and other insects,
and whether the fruit may be imported
without previous examination, has not yet
been decided. The probability Is that the
decision will be favorable to American
interests. The officials of the United States
embassy have cabled the above facts to
the authorities at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The Department
of State has been informed by cable from
Ambassador White, at Berlin, that orders
have been issued according to which Amer
lean oranges and raisins imported into Ger
many, as well as all American fresh or dried
fruits passing through Germany in bond. are
no longer to be examined for San Jose scale.
The German ambassador to-day authorized
the following statement: "Cablegrams re-
ceived at the embassy to-day say the i'm
perial secretary Of state for the interior, in
interpreting the imperial order Of the 5th
of February, 1898, has decreed that certain
kinds of fruits imported from America, such
as oranges. lemons, raisins, are not to be re-
garded as fruit in the sense of the imperial
order, and are, therefore, free from the
San Jose scale inspection provided for other
fruit. Count PoSadoWky permitted further
the transit of fresh and dried, as well as of
waste fruit (fruit refuse), from America
through Germany generally, under the con-
dition that the goods are shipped through
German territory in bond.
The German government has given an
evidence of its purpose to facilitate friend
ly commercial relations with the United
States by taking steps to ascertain whether
or not it is not possible to remove the i'm
pedimentS to the operation of American in
surance associations in Germany. These
corporations had built up an enormous bus
brought to an abrupt termination by the
application to them by the German govern
ment of certain rules with which II was to-
tally impossible to comply. demonstrations
proved useless, and although Secretary OIL
ney made the matter one for his special at
tentiOn, the negotiations came to nothing,
and the insurance companies were obliged
to sacrifice their interests in Germany. Now,
however, information has reached here that
the German government is sending to the
United States two officials, councillors of
state, Baron Won BiebenStein and Herr
Hoppe, representing the ministry of the in
terror, to confer with the heads of the three
great American insurance companies which
were principally interested in the subject
with a view to resumption of the business
Of these companies in Prussia at an early
date.