The age-herald., 1900-03-12
THE MEAT BILL
 STILL DISCUSSED The AgrarianS Are Somewhat
 DiScomftted.
NAVY BILL IS ERRONEOUS
It is Argued That the Expenses of the German Fleet Will Now Have to Be Raised By
 Taxes

Berlin, March 1.-The action of the reich stag yesterday evening regarding the meat bill was eagerly commented upon. The declarations of Prince Hohenlohe and Count Won Posadowsky-W -Wehner had the effect of discomforting the agrarians. Some of the papers hitherto strongly in favor of the committee report, like the Neuste Nachrichten now say they are unable to call the reichstag's action wise. The Ma tional Zettung rakes Count Won Posadows- ky-wehner over the coals because of his "shily-shalling with the agrarans," in- stead of firmly declaring the governments intentions. It continues:
 "Count Von Posadowsky- -Wehner's abus- ing of those who endeavored to re-establish the government bill and his defense of the agrarians' unsuitable greed, is character istic. Count Won -PosadowskyW Wehner seems to have returned to his first love, the agrarians, and seldom misses the oppor- tunity to throw mud at the United States. The statistics Count Von Posadowsky Wehner uses to prove the Americans have by far the largest interest in preserving cordial commercial relations with Germany untrustworthy."
 Protest meetings against the meat bill continue. The Berlin chamber of commerce has called a meeting for tomorrow. at which representatives of all German indus try and commerce will be present.
 To a certain extent the naval bill de- pends upon the issue of the meat issue bill. The bundesrath will hold an extra session Af afSifa the cost of the fleet increase. Herr Eugene Richters Fressinnige Zeitung demonstrates by official statistics that the receipts of the empire are steadily declining and that for 1899 the German states furnished S,OO00O0 marks to the empire to establish the equi- librium.
 Calculations Are Erroneous
 Herr Richter argues herewith that the whole of the governments calculations about the naval bill expenses are errone- ous and that the cost of the fleet must be raised by taxes.
 It Is semi-ofncially given out by the im- perlal department of the interior that the preparatory work for the projected com mercial treaties is far advanced. All these negotiations with each country. start out from the German staff departments
 From inside information it may be said that the imperial government will never &C., cept paragraph 14 of the meat bill. There fore. it Is not considered that the com mercial treaty negotiations with the United States are endangered by yesterday even- ing's vote There is no occasion for Amer leans to get excited.
 A protest meeting against the department store bill, att which 10000 people were pres ent, took place here last night, and there have been similar meetings elsewhere
 Commander w. H. Behler, U. S. N. att tachee. has acquired an exceptionally fa- vored position here for the following req son: Commander Behler was permitted to visit the krupp's establishment and every phnng was explained to him. The emperor afterwards jocularly said: "Tf I had been Krupp l would have fired you"
 Offered to Sell Krupp Process
 Since then a traitor of Essex wrote to Behler offering to sell him and through him to the United States several of the Krupp processes. Behler showed. the letter to Krupp, and the man who wrote it has since been arrested for breach of confidence; but the United States naval attaclne now enjoys the full confidence of official circles. The German walters congress, held here this week, showed untenable conditions. One of the main complaints of the delegates was that the employers compelled them to give up regular monthly amounts from their tips"
 At the bicenniary of the Academy of Sciences the United States Ambassador, MT