The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-08
Demand For Closer Relations With
the United States.
explosions OF DANES
RESULT IN GREAT DAMAGE TO
GERMAN COMMERCE.
Increase In Lese Majestic Prosecu-
tons Condemned By the Centrists
Meat Inspection Bill Passed By
the Prussian Cabinet-Simplifies
the Method of Inspection.
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Berlin, Jan. THE German cham
bers of commerce and industrial asso-
Citations, in their annual reports this
week, have referred more or less freely
to Germany's trade with the United
States. A majority of them express the
hope that commercial relations will be-
come closer and more friendly. The
Leipsic chamber of commerce, one of
the most important in Germany, de-
plores the present uncertainty of the
commercial relations with both the
United States and Great Britain, and
says it trusts the government will
strive to the utmost to re-establish
permanently the best relations with
both countries. The Bund der Indus
trielle, the Rhenish manufacturing as
ISOLATION, however, urges the govern
ment to adopt prompt and energetic
retaliatory measures against the Unit
ed States, in view of the palpable vio-
lations Of the treaty"
The bundesrath is now discussing a
government bill, the so-called LEX
heinz" framed to suppress certain fea-
lures of public and private immortality.
1t also affects literature and art. This
bill is a weakened copy of a measure
repeatedly introduced in the reichstag
by Centrists and defeated.
The Centre, which is the dominant
faction Of the reichstag, publishes,
through its main organ. the Cologne
Volks Ceitung, its intention of fighting
the two leading government measures,
the anti-strike and military bills. At
the same time it condemns the con-
slant increase in lese majestic trials,
and impugns the motives underlying
mo
the growing espionage which is bred
thereby.
The expulsion of the Danes from
North Schleswig continues undated,
and an overwhelming majority of the
papers continue to complain of the pol
ICY and deny its political wisdom. The
Cologne Gazette is an exception to the
rule. 1t urges all Germans to approve
the measures, which, it asserts, are
necessary for patriotic reasons.
The central committee, representing
all the commercial clubs and associa-
tons at Berlin, met this week and for
mally condemned the explosions, which
tn committee collected statistics to
show have already done a vast amount
Of damage to German commerce.
Influenza, which seized the emperor
last Sunday, kept him in doors until
Friday. 1t was of a rather serious
type. and a high fever weakened the
patient considerably. The disease COM
plicated his majesty's old ear. trouble,
which caused him severe pain. The
emperor was able to walk out of doors
on Friday with-the empress.
SLANDERED THE ARMY.
A case in which the ministers of war
of Prussia, Bavaria and SaXony figured
as prosecutors has just been concluded
in the imperial court at Leipsic. The
defendant was a physician, DR.. Biting
hoff, who was charged with calumniat-
ing officers of the German army. The
offense was committed in June last, on
the eve Of the general election, in a
beer saloon, at Westphalia, where DR..
Bittinghoff noisily held forth on the
subject of war, declaring the populace
did not want war, and that if the SOL
dierS were allowed to take their choice
they would all elect to return home in
stead of fighting He also said the sol
diers who took part in the Franco
German war were inspired merely by
Dutch courage and it was the uni
versal practice of their officers to crop
under the shelter of hedges. These re-
marks were reported to the military
authorities, who interpreted them as
being an accusation of cowardice
against the officers. ThereupOn the
three ministers of war, in their capac-
ity of official chiefs, prosecuted DIR.
Bittinghoff, who was fined 800 marks.
The doctor appealed TO the supreme
court, which has now confirmed the
decision of the lower court.
A waiter of ChemnitZ, named Barthel,
has been granted permission, at his
own request, to come to Berlin on EN-
peror Williams birthday, which occurs
To +n on a 10
of the castle bust of his majesty out
of table napkins.
MEAT INSPECTION BILL.
The imperial meat inspection bill is
again one of the foremost subjects dis
cussed by the German newspapers. This
measure, early in the week, was final
ly passed by the Prussian cabinet, and
has gone to the bundesrath, which, it
is understood, will make short work of
it, as each of the federal governments
has already considered it, and the pres
ent shape of the bill is virtually the re-
suit of mutual concessions made by the
several governments. From an author
tative source it is learned that the
task of agreeing to its final form
proved very difficult to the South Ger
man governments, and especially Wur-
.emburg and Bavaria, which originally
any such legislation, since
hey thus far have not been Saddled
With trichinosis inspection, and saw
10 reason why the whole empire should
De saddled with an expensive meat in
;pection, merely because Prussia
Wished it. It was in Difference to these
South German votes that the Prussian
cabinet gradually cut down the de-
hands, and a number of the Agrarian
features of the original draft of the
ill We're eliminated. Two important
are the dropping of the
.lause providing for state remunera-
ion for all cattle and meat. declared
Unfit for sale, and the inserting of a
Iause enforcing the inspection of all
attic and swine slaughtered for pri-
vate consumption.
The correspondent here for the AS
ociated Press interviewed a high
RUSSIAN official concerning the meas
Ire, who said:
For America the most vital and in
ereSting features are that it simplifies
nd unifies the method of inspection,
nd that there will only be one inspec-
ion. There will be no prohibition
gainst any class of American meat,
hough very strong pressure was
rought to bear on the government to
xclude certain kinds, and especially
ausage, canned meats and lard. The |
however, is given full pow
T under the bill to make, in case of |
ecessity, a decree declaring against |
ny and all kinds of foreign meat But |
UGH action will not be taken unless |
here is the strongest reason for it.
A difficult problem is the treatment |