New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-12
BOWERS NEAR AGREEMENT
r.voaABLE TURN IN THE SAMOAN
NEGOTIATIONS.
- HIGH COMMISSION TO HURRY TO APIA
pARoN Won sTERNBERG GERMANYs
REPRESENTATIVES,

.,rvton April 11.-As a result Of confer
held to-day at the State Department and
pr,,sh Embassy. efforts will be made to
w. tho Samoan Joint High Commission make
.,,cs trip across the country. reaching San
o,sco In time to catch the steamer for Sa-
ono week from tomorrow. This is regard
a distinctly favorable turn in the negotia-
49,. and rs indicating that the three govern
,s are near to a complete accord all
".n,s It shows also that the reports that
n,onv was withholding the appointment of
- commissioners are untrue. and makes 1t
.,ca,lv certain that Baron Speck Won Stern
- First Secretary of the Embassy here will
=. tbe German representative.
r,. new turn in affairs resulted from confer
=. hold by the German Ambassador. DR.. Won
,,oushen. first with Secretary Hay at the state
nor,ment and then at the British Embassy
,.h Sir Julian Pauncefote and Mr.. Eliot, the
,a,,sb commissioner DR.. Won Holleben's an
-.uncements were particularly agreeable to the
.r,or,can and British authorities. as they came
.rer the unofficial cable dispatches from Lon
A., and Berlin indicating that serious hitch
S.,cht occur The Ambassador made known the
80, ~ the German Government that the COM
,seion should start at once, catchhg 'he
.orrer from San Francisco next week he
- assurance that Germany would cooperate
>. or,ine her Commissioner, although he did
not officially announce that baroh 1rstood
IT, 10 he the man. 1t was well UNDERSTOOD,
S.ver that the Berlin Foreign once would
.oon make the official announcement. ,...
Attention was next turned to framing ine Jolnt
,,ructions and hurrying the commissioners
MS ms II II is impossible to catch the steamer
~ me 10Th arrangements may be mace Ior d
vi oeioI steamer from Honolulu ana there Is
,sn chance that the United states may as
q
s ssr,oa This courtesy would undoubtedly be
sxtsnded II the warshps were not so ac'i'eS
engaged at present. J.. ,,.,. .o,d dav
~, renorts of q protest by Germany against
Admiral Kautz's course In reference 10 .ne
,rsatnnent of the cruiser Fake were unwarrant-
"a An the negotiations. 1t is said In the high-
Gu g. Canaan quarters are Of such character as
80 hr,nq the governments more closely together
instead Of separating them.
SUSTAINING ADMIRAL KAUTZ
As n has been strongly intimated in the Ber-
lin dispatches that the German Government.
uas about to make demand for dlsavo"ai
q, Admiral Kautz's actions. it may be said that
this Government will certainly not accede TO
INV such request in advance of full knowiedge
~ all the facts in the case and CONVICTION that
the Admiral acted wrongly. the presumption al
WAYS being that American officers have ac'eo
with due propriety until the contrary is SHOWN
10 be the case.
II Admiral Kautz found Mataafa' the sell
constituted King with his thirteen chefs dom-
mating the affairs Of the island involving the
susnension of the functions of the supreme
Court and of the Municipal Council, formally
and duly established by treaty, II was his uuty'
according to the State Department, to bring the
conditions at once into conformity with the
treaty. II this involved the dissolution or the
Provisional Government there can he no legal
complaint. it is said. by any one Of the three
Powers who have bound themselves TO carry
ont and maintain the Treaty Of Berlin. Inc
fart that the three consuls at Apia in a mo-
rnent of excitement sanctioned the estaoHsn-
rnent of the Provisional Government, tnoueh
regretted here, is not regarded as affectmg the
merits of the American and British contentious,
as these three officials. ii is held, had no rlght
10 do ANYTHING in cOntravention OF the treaty,
such as was involved in the suspension of part
OF the machinery of the government for which
that convention provided.
Some surprise is expressed by the Department
officials at the misconcepton entertained III Ger
MANY of the terms of Admiral kautZs proc
lamation and it is pointed out that. according
10 the terms Of the proclamation as printed
here Admiral Kautz did not say that all three
consuls had expressed Willingness 10 dhnuI
the Provisional Government, but that meet
ing of the consuls had been called ana oe,
cision had been reached to annul the provisional