The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-19
GERMANY'S MEAT
INSPECTION BILL
To Be No Discriminate
Against Imports.
TREATED AS DOMESTIC FOOD
AMENDMENT TO SEND EXPERTS
TO THIS COUNTRY.
Press of the Fatherland Speaks in
More Friendly Mood Of In
creasing Trade With the
United States.
TREATED AS DOMESTIC FOOD
AMENDMENT TO SEND EXPERTS
TO THIS COUNTRY.
Copyrighted. 1899, by the Associated Press.

Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press
RERIJN Feb. 1S.-The meat inspec-
ton bill passed by the Bundesrdth on
February 16 provides for an expert IN
spection inland before and AFTER
slaughtering cattle, hogs, sheep, goats
and horses, excepting what are killed
for domestic consumption. rms Is re-
garded as only an Agrarian compro-
mise The bill contains many details
of home inspection. 1t not only ex-
cludes diseased meat, but meat OF IN
sufficient nutritive value. Foreign
meats are subject to a single inspection,
but this does not forbid an additional
inspection by the separate states Tor
special reasons, such as suspicion that
the meat has deteriorated since the
date of its first inspection. In any
case, however, foreign meats must be
treated the same as domestic meats.
The importation of foreign meats is re-
stricted to certain ports in order to
facilitate inspection, the result of which
must he made known in each case in
a uniform manner.
The bill is considered to provide the
minimum meat inspection required
throughout the empire, leaving to the
separate states the question of adding
other features besides what are con-
tanned in the imperial bill.
The measure has now gone to the
Reichstag, where it is certain to lead
to stormy debates. The Center, being
the dominant factor, will propose an
amendment to the effect that Germany
appoint a corps of its own meat in
afh Ar
meat exporting centers, these inspect
ors to examine all meat destined for
Germany and issue certificates which
will be accepted as conclusive by the
home government.
Regarding this proposition the Cen
trist organ. the Cologne Volks Zeitung,
SAYS: THE American packers cannot
object to such an arrangement, for such
hygienic legalization Will only be q
copy of their present legalization of
German exports to the United States
by the American Consuls here"
The statements of Baron Won Bulow,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
Count Posadowsky- Wehner the Min
lister of the Interior, regarding the
commercial and political relations be-
tween the United States and Germany
and the debate in the Reichstag on the
subject have occupied the attention Of
the press throughout the week and
gave rise to many notable utterances.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung further
SAYS: I'm spite of the clear and I'M
eauivocal declarations of the German
Government we suppose that the Ger
man batting by the American and Eng
lish press will not cease at once. We
believe, however, that the frank and
honest remarks of the officials of the
Government will prevent this poisonous
seed from continuing to affect the
l,tr III nd ind fol
classes in the United States
The Deutsche Zeitung publishes a
long editorial article, in the course of
which it says: "German-American re-
lations are difficult to handle. Ameri-
can agriculture and German industry
must export, and American industry
and German agriculture need tariff pro-
lection Thus arise most important
economic differences. The American
desire for expansion and the German
need of expansion produce new fric-
tions. yet neither an economic nor a
political rupture will be in the interest
Of either nation"
The Frankfort Zeitung, reviewing the
proceedings in the Reichstag says:
ut must be admitted that opinion in
the United States has unfortunately
had many reasons to doubt Germany's
neutrality. We pointed out on a former
occasion the needlessness of sending
four German men to Manila to
protect German interests. Other in
terested powers deemed one vessel
enough. And then the larger part of
the press, the semi-official newspapers
Included, gave expression TO their sym
pathy for the brave and severely tried
people, which WAS necessarily often
sive to the Americans
The discord within the German and
Prussian Cabinets has grown more
acute. There is no longer any doubt
that the three outspoken Agrarian
members of the Prussian Cabinet.
Baron Won Hammerstein-L exten, the
Minister of Agriculture: Baron Won der
Recke Won der Horst, the Prussian
Minister of the Interior, and Count Won
Posadowsky- Wehner. the Secretary of
State for the Interior, are openly at
war with the rest of their colleagues.
During the past fortnight they have
given ample evidence thereof in public
speeches, in some cases fatty contra
dieting previous statements of Baron