The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19

ports to the United States in 1898, wer,
501, 100000 marks, the imports bein.
So2,000,000 marks, and the exports 344.
100000. According to the United States
treasury, the American exports to Ger
many during the last fiscal year were
about 624 100000 marks, while for the
calendar year they were liz, 0O0, 00t
marks below Count Won Posadowsk.
| Wehner's figure. This enormous an6
unexplained discrepancy is greatly
| hampering Mr.. Porter's way for the
present
Germany claims that the balance OF
| trade has lately been going, under the
Dingley law. too much the American
way to make a treaty under the exist
| ing conditions practicable to Germany.
In proof of this the German officials ad-
! duce the alleged enormous American
surplus of 1898.
According to the American figures,
| the excess of American exports to Ger
many during the ten years between
1888 and 1898 is only Sis, 900, 600, or less
than the excess which Germany claims
for 1898 alone.
During 1SS9-9O-91 and '9S Germany
exported an excess to the United States,
While the annual average of America s
excess of exports to Germany for ten
years is only a little over $11, COO, 600, a
trifie in SO enormous trade, of which,
moreover, 2,240, 600 marks We're raw ma
terlal COTTON, copper, tobacco and pc
troleum from the United States, and
produced in Germany whereof the lat
ter enhances the value by manufacture
ing, showing that trade with the Unit
ed States was a series of great profit
to Germany, instead oG loss.
DISCREPANCY EXPLAINED.
la
nished the correspondent of the Asso-
cdated Press with what seerns to be a
good explanation of the above discrep-
ancy. Count Won PoSadoWsky- Wehner's
figures include among the imports from
the United States all goods passing
through Germany in transit, which
form very large amount, but just how
large cannot be stated precisely. The
expert does not take into account the
fact that nearly the whole carrying
of exports from the United States to
Germany is done in German vessels, the
profits of which are also large.
a German expert showed these fig
ures to British statesman, and the
lauter, after carefully studying them,
said:
"a magnificent showing for Ger
many. 1t would be magnificent show
1ngfor any country"
lettering to the visit here of Mr. &C.
Gil Rhodes, a number of papers have
discussed whether it would not be- best
to insist upon Samoa in exchange for
Germany's consent to the building of
the Cape to Cairo railroad through
German East Africa. The Deutsche
Zeitung approves of the scheme
The Catholic press of Germany has
devoted much space recently to Arch
bishop Ireland and the question of
Amer'icanism. The Cologne Volks lei
tung, the leading Catholic organ, says:
America and her 'unruly spirits will
surely not be permitted to prescribe to
the church how to conduct herself
The emperor and empress are due to
arrive at Kiel tomorrow, and will be
there for two days
On Monday Prince Valdemar, eldest
son of Prince Henry of Prussia, who
was born at Kiel on March 20, 1889, for
mally enters the army, and a 'deputa-
tom of the First guards regiment will
go to Kiel in order to attend the cere-
mony.
The state secretars- of the Bruins
wick court, Herr Kenmecke, has been
on the charge of lese majestic.