The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-05
Official at Berlin Say Americans
Are to Blame.
CHIEF JUSTICE SCORED
DRAWN INTO THE BRITISH MIS-
SIoNARY INTRIGUES.
Had No Business to NEEDLE In the
Election of King-Important
Question Discussed In Prussian
Diet-Emperor William Insulted
By a Hob at Berlin.

1 Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.)
Berlin, Feb. 4.-The German govern
ment claims TO have received advices
from Samos which dispose the minis
tiers to in no wise acquesce in the view
that the German representatives there
are entirely TO blame for the recent
troubles. A high foreign officer said:
Our representations from Samoa this
week narrate IN detail the events pre-
! ceding the bursting of the storm in
consequence of the royal election. We
begin TO see more clearly into mat
/ tiers. There has been for some time past
serious friction between Chief Justice
| Chambers and DR.. Joannes Raffel (the
German president of the municipality
of Apia and Herr Rose (the German
consul at Apia) arising from mutual
determinations as to the conduct of Off
cial business and personal differences.
Mr.. Chambers appears to have been
engaged in promoting much agitation
| in favor of the Malietoa party. If this
is confirmed we shall ask for an eX-
PLANTATION as such conduct is a direct
contravention of the Berlin treaty.
which expressly provides that the su-
preme judges 5. al not NEEDLE with ma
tional elect onS bit shall remain strUct-
ly neutral on such occasions It seems.
however, that Mr. Chambers joined in
the intrigucs of the English mission
aries. who feared that protestant inter-
ests would suffer by the ascension of
the Roman Catholic Mataafa. The
German government does not so to the
length of claiming that Mr.. Chambers
did so act, but If the reports are con-
firmed we shall ask for an explanation.
Possibly on the American side facts
may Be adduced tending to show that
our representatives also exceeded their
they VIII be impartially and amicably
settled. No formal requests or COM
plants have yet been made by either
government and there is evidently a
desire on both sides to settle the whole
difficulty in a friendly way Respect
ing the. latest incident, il seems unde-
niable that a German creating a dis
turbance, smashing wondOw panes etc,
but we fail to see why Mr.. Chambers
deemed it his duty to place the offender
under his jurisdiction. instead of leav-
| ing him to the consular jurisdiction,
as the Samoa acts prescribed. This
action on the part of Mr. Chambers
VIII also need an explanation. The in
cident, however. is trifiing. Our reports
indicate that generally speaking or
der now reigns at Samoa"
The correspondent of the Associated
Press spoke TO the United States am
bassador. Mr. Andrew d. White, on
the subject, and he said the above
statement tallies with his own infor-
nation. Mr.. White adds that he has
not received fresh instructions from
Washington and he had no doubt that
the troubles would be amicably adj
justed by the three powers interested.
AGRARIAN DEMANDS.
The debates in the Prussian diet this
week We're of special interest, as they
brought out the full extent of the agra
rian demands and showed that the
Prussian cabinet is unanimous on the
agrarian question. The agrarian party
in the diet is much stronger than in
the reichstag and the speeches showed
that even the national liberals support
the agrarians on many questions.
Herr Walbrecht, national liberal, as
sured the government that there was q
deep feeling Of dissatisfa ton caused
by the agricultural depression in west
ern Prussia, as well as in the east, and
that the sugar crisis has severely hurt
the Rhine provinces. He also exp ess- /
ed the belief that Cuba, under the
Americans, viii quickly become d dan
gerOus competitor with the German
sugar industry and recommended the
Germans to form sugar trust and
raise home prices. The agrarian lead
eTs. Inconsistencies and Won Wagon
helm, were more violent, calling on the
government 10 abolish the commerci Il
treaties and exclude America, Russia
and Austrian agricultural products.
There was an interesting debate in
the reichs,ag on the bill introduced by
Herr Rickert for the protection of the
secrecy of the ballot. The two Conser-
vative factions for the first time openly
ayoNed their desire to abolish the Sc
Crecy of the ballot. and Emperor VIII
liam's friend, Baron Won Stumm, plain
" declared that sooner or later secrecy
must be abolished, at which the whole
right loudly applaUded. The bill, how
ever, was adopted by large majority,
composed of the center and the whole
of the left.
he oncial Reichsanzieger has pub
lished most of the new Cuban tariff
regulations, and the German press is
greatly dissatified with them, claiming
they are so framed as to favor Amer
lean imports at the expense of German
and other European imports. The
Boersen Courier, the leading CONNER |
cial organ, dwells particularly on the !
fact that German staple exports, such
as textiles and wines, are most unfa-
vorably treated. and concludes an aru-
Gle on the subject with saying:
THE tariff regulations made by the |
United States for Cuba know nothing
of the open door, Surely something
will have to be said about them in the !
future
NEW GERMAN CABLE.
The establishment of a company to
lay a direct cab.e between Germany and |
the United States now seems definitely |
,es,,,.ad Tho canitaI % OO0 00O marks !