New-York tribune., 1899-02-12

Berlin February H.
SAMOAN INSTRUCTIONS.-Unit States Am
bassador White has now received detailed lhsruc-
tions regarding Samoa both by mail ana caoe'
He declined to give their nature, but said:
II do not soc any reason to change the opinion
I have previously expressed that the difficulties
will be entirely adjusted dplomaucaIly NY IN
structlons have not made the task Of coming TO an
amicable understanding more diffcNt have had
several conferences with Baron von Buelo" 'lhe
German Minister OF Foreign Affairs IN the course
of the week about Samoa and the Philippines ana
our commercial relations. found the German Gov
ornment concatory.
Mr. White utterly disbeeves the reports that
Germany has financially supported Agulnaldo win
reference to the allegation high Government ofii-
cia said: -,.. ,,.,.ss 7, e. true
that a commercial syndicate for the export or arms
and ammunition has existed at Hong Kong ior
years and is still doing thriving neso business. and
members are English Americans JaPdneeSe e anu
Chinese but i does not contain & slse eo, blnng
The Consul OF Germany certainly does hTr
i'm the arms and ammunition trade
INTEREST IN MATTERS AT MANII1A.-Amer-
lean affairs have occupied large space III 'he
German press during the last week. The events at
Manila have been followed keenly and the press
comments are plentiful and varied. Generally
speaking the papers rather sympathetic WIKI the
Americans but fears expressed that the task
of subduing the Fillpnos VIII prove harder IMAM
the Americans suppose. me |O7nlcHe-NVlt"HS' AZ
an article wishing the Americans success. says:
"If President Mckinley insists upon establishing
nermaneut American rule in the Philippines, the
United States stand just on the threshold Of colo
NAL war Of whose dangers and expense. blood ana
money the American newspaper strategIsts nave
pTPSso!Y Tbs Kpeuz no zGSqHar czeqtiang "'ga says:
'.Whoever looks over the situation calmly must
admit thar the final victory OF the Americans IS
not only certain, but desirable. The Tagaos with
their Agulnaldo. are certainly hcapaDle ST.i Tbi
Aguinaldo who has played with more than hostile
Intentions between two Powers, has any traits OF
The 'Kreuz-zeitung' then reiolces that the rela-
tions between Germany ana me 1i'e1 Vyht,e a,
for his steady efforts in that direction Ihe paper
next advises a partition Of the samoan Islands
Germany taking Upolu upon which Apia. the cap.
ital is situated and which contains more than half
the total population OF the entire group, and the
United States and Great Britain dividing SavalL
Tutuila and Manua
COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS commercial
relations between the United States and Germany
have however absorbed chief attention, partly on
account OF the Reichstag Interpolation on the sub
feet to-day introduced ny Count Won Kantz, the
Agrarian leader. with the approval of the Govern
ment which hopes thereby TO exert pressure on
the Washington Government, which. 1t Is claimed
here is hanging back needlessly and mterposing
obstacles In the way or a mutual Understanding re-
garding reciprocity.
The Agrarian press this week again abuse the
United States and the Centrsts who backed the
Interpolation. print in their mouthpece' the Co
logne Voks-Zetung." long, aggressive article re-
ferring to American insoence" In tariff matters.
Among other things the paper says:
The German narket Is equally valuable to the
Americans as the American IS to us especially
since the American tariff policy succeeded in ex-
Guiding large part Of German exports from the
American market American braggadocio pretends
that America has nothing to lose. and that she can
frighten Germany by increasing brutality. But we
believe that I'm the end they will recognize that
they have to deal with a people who will not be
frightened First of all the Reichstag must make
II plain that German patience. In the face OF nces-
SAINT American provocaton. has its limits, and that
we are determined defend ourselves, unless they
learn TO behave sensbly. This may favorably In
nuence the negotiations The Centriss in supporting
the Interpolation do not intend 10 rush Germany
into a tariff war with the United States. We are
aware that such a war hurts both parties. and that
our industries would suffer. But the Americans
by their brutal disregard OF all treaties have al
ready injured our exports seriously thai It seems
necessary to show them once for all that we can
hit back otherwise they VIII behave worse and
The foregoing article from the organ of the
dominant faction in the Rochstag. Is certainly sig
more moderate editorial while the Deutsche lei
tung" has an extremely aggressive article, concud-
"As pressure upon our own Government which
has always shown weakness toward the United
states, ana as pressure 10 pc uscd dipIomatlcally
against those gentlemen at Washington this inter
/ relation Is certainly icSraO ole ana welcome.
The entire Liberal press takes the opposite view.
The National Xeiung' deems the nterpella ion
untlmey. the "Freisinnlge Xeiung" says 1t is mere
ly intended to facilitate the policy Of agricultural
exclusion for the benefit Of the Agrarians. and the
"Tageblatt' strongly opposes a tarn war.
UNFAIRNESS TO FRUIT-The Vexatious ap-
plication OF the German tariff on American i'm
ports has in nowise ceased. and during the last
few months American fruit has been treated with
especial unfa'rness at all the tariff stations par
ticularly Hamburg. Bremen and Emmerch. the
frontier OF Holland The attention OF Mr.. White
has just been called to case which occurred on
January s. when hundred cases Of the finest dried
California pears. consigned 10 a merchant OF Dus-
| sedorf stopped at Emmerch by the Ger
mans who advised he cOnsgnee that the lot could
not pass because the San Jose scale had been
found among the pears The conslgnee demurred.
pointing out that the pears were dried 10y the APP
proved Californian method and that the scales.
therefore. must he dead and harmless. The offi-
/ cials replied week later that an expert had been
unable to determine whether the scales We're dead
or alive but that In any case II had been decided
that American dried fruit was calculated to spread
the San Jose scale unless 81 dried as TO render II
"perfectly dry. hard and brittle The consSnte
answered that such treatment OF choice tall
fornlan fruit would make II va.ueless and unht Tor
food, and called attention to the scientific fact that
san Jose scale could survive the California
process His remonstrances, however. had ma