The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-05
TREATY WITH GERMANY
TEXT OF THE COMMERCIAL AGREE
MENT SIGNED ON 10TH OF JULY.
Reduced Tariff Rates on Wines, ETC.,
Granted by the United States i'm
Return for Like Concessions.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Following is
the text of the commercial agreement with
Germany, on which the Presidents proc
lamation was issued on July Is. 1900. The
State Department has been informed it has
been published in Germany to-day:
1.-The undersigned. on behalf of their re-
spective governments, have concluded the
following commercial agreement:
"First-In conformity with the authority
conferred on the President in Section 3, of
the customs act OF the United States, ap-
proved July "a, 1897, IL is agreed on the part
OF the United States that the following
products of the soil and industry of Ger
many imported into the United States
shall. from and after the date when this
agreement shall be put in force, be sub
ject TO the reduced tariff rates provided by
said Section 3, as follows: Upon ARGOS,
or crude tartar, or wine lees, crude, per
centum ad valorem. Upon brandies, or
other spirits, manufactured or distilled
from grain or other materials, SlI0 per
proof gallon. Upon still wines and YER
mouth, in casks, 80 cents per gallon; In
bottles or jugs, per case or one dozen bot
ties or jugs, containing each not more
than one quart and more than one pint, or
twenty-four bottles or jugs, containing
each not more than one pint. 81 % per. case.
and any excess beyond these quantities
found in such bottles or jugs shall be sub
ject 10 duty of cents per pint, or frac-
tional part thereof, but no separate or
additional duty shall be assessor upon the
bottles or jugs. Upon paintings in oil or
water colorS, pastels, pen and ink draw
ing. statuary, Is per centum ad valorem
''Second-Reciprocally, the imperial Ger
man government guarantees to the prod
ucts of the United States on their entry
into Germany the tariff rates which have
been conceded by the commercial treaties
concluded during the years 1924 between
Germany on the one part, and Belgium,
Italy. Austro-H Hungary, Roumania, Russia,
Switzerland and Servia on the other part
Moreover the imperial German govern
ment will, as soon as this agreement shall
be put in force, annul the regulations pro-
vidng that the dried evaported fruits
imported from the United States into Ger
many be inspected on account of the San
Jose scale. These fruits shall, during the
continuance in force of this agreement, be
admitted into Germany without any other
charges than the payment OF the customs
duties to which they may now or In future
be subject by law.
''Third-From and after the date of the
Presidents proclamation, which shall give
effect to this agreement, the same shall be
In force and shall continue in full force
until three months from the date when
either party shall notify the other of its
intention to terminate the same.
The agreement was done in duplicate in
English and German texts, at Washington,
on July 10. and was signed by John Hay,
secretary of state, and Herr Won Holleben,
ambassador extraordinary and penipoten-
tiary of his imperial and royal Majesty,
the Emperor of Germany, King Of Prussia.
The postmaster general has ordered that
the postoffice at Paul and Soldiers Home,
Kent county, Michigan be consolidated on
Aug. 10 with the Grand Rapids Mich, post
Office.
Second Lieutenant Z. II. Martin, Fifth
Artillery, has been dismissed from the
army by direction of the President in con-
fOrnity with the sentence of a general
court-martial, by which he was tried and
convicted of making false, fictitious and
fraudulent statements OF claims and re-
eeipts" in the accounts OF the post ex-
change at Fort Hancock, y. Y.
Lieutenant Martins case attracted much
attention in New York. Soon after charges
were made against him the lieutenant an
nOunced that he had been secretly married
10 Miss Gusse Mckee, who later on was
arrested in a police raid on woman's pool
room, and who. in an interview, declared
that she had been trying to gain some
money to aid her husband in defending
himself
BY direction of the secretary of war Fort
Francis Banks. of Florida, has been dis
detachment of Battery B, Second Artillery.
now there, has been transferred 10 its for
mer station at Fort Dade, Fla.
XXX
Col. William II. Muse, of the marine
corps, commanding the marines at the
Mare Island navy yard, is suffering from
severe kidney trouble, and has been ordered
10 Washington. ID. c., 10 be examined for
retirement. His retirement will promote
20 the next higher grades Lieutenant Col.
Francis H Harrington, Major Otway c.
Bergman. Capt. Henry c. Haines. First
Lieutenant Edwin A Jones and Second
Lieutenant Yandell Foote.
Xxx
To-day's statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund exclusive of the
Sl50.O0Oc00 gold reserve In the division of
REDEMPTION shows: Available cash balance.
$l4S. 2OSl: gold. S2,0e7,S47. -
The Merchants National Bank OF In
dianapoIis has been approved by the con-
troller OF the currency as reserve agent
OF the First National Bank at crown
Point.
The secretary OF the navy has extended
the contract time on the battleships Ken
tucky and the Kearsarge TO the time OF
their delivery by the builders. the Newport
News Ship Building Company. This ac-
ton was taken in view of the numerous
changes made in the work on the vessels
principally due 10 the substitution or cleo
trlcal power for steam and hydraulic power
IN the auxiliary. The effect is to remove
the penalty which had accrued on both
vessels.
statement prepared by Mr.. Chamber
lain. the commissioner OF navigation,
shows that the tonnage tax collections
during the fiscal year ended June DC
amounted TO $3.50. $50. compared with Ss34,-
07 for the previous fiscal year The col
lections are the largest for any year since
rates below those charged by the principal