Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-18
STATUS IN GERMANY
AMBASSADOR WHITE DISCUSSES
FEELING TOWARD US.
EMPEROR STILL FRIENDLY
With Samoan and Other Matters Set
tied, Trade Differences Can Now
Probably Be Satisfactorily Adjust
ed-New Smokeless and Soundless
Powder Is Tested.
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Berlin, Jan. IA correspondent OF
the Associated Press interviewed
United States Ambassador Andrew D.
White about the present status Of re-
lations between Germany and the
United States. Mr.. White said:
The Samoan question between the
United States and Germany the in
matters have been happily settled.
The main questions which remain are
the commercial treaty ard proper in
spection Of American meats. The
former will be manly considered at
Washington. The latter must depend
upon the action of the reichstag.
Though the agrarian party shows bit
ter hostility to the allevia-
ton of the present arrangement
so oppressive to Americans
interested it is hoped the proposal
made in President McKinleys message
for the appointment of special COM
mission may be accepted. There is no
doubt the cover 1nent, apart from the
agrarians, will De heartily glad to see
some such fair settlement. This was
foreshadowed when the emperor eX-
pressed at considerable length to N,
on new years day, not only his own
personal satisfaction, but that of the
German people AZ that part of the mes
sage referring to Germany. 1t is also
an open secret that Prince HOhenlohe
and Count Von-Buelow were especially
anxious to see some such just solution
of this most troublesome of all ques-
lions now pending between the two
governments"
POLITICALLY the week was interest
ing in several respects. The reich
stag was dull but the coming week
foreign affairs will be thoroughly dis
cussed. The seizures of German
steamers by British warships have
hadthe effect of intensifying and gen.
eralizing the anti-British sentiment
in Germany 1t would be difficult to-
day to find a German here or any
where who dares profess anglophil-
ism. All anti-German utterances
in the British press are
circulated here. One which causes
great enlightenment is Punch's poem
starting, Little Germany Talks"
whicn is reprinted everywhere. Count
Won Buelow's speech at the launching
Of the Hamburg American line steam
er Deutschland, especially in the terms
Of friendship he devoted to the United
States, is much commented on by the
n nd with
tons, approvingly. The official report
of the Frankfort consulate general of
the United States for 1899 shows ex-
ports to the United States were $685.
00,110; an increase against 1898 of
$7,1SS, 325. The test occurred Sat-
urday in Vilbel, near
Frankfort, of the newly invented
smokeless and noiseless powder.
Among those present were the French
naval attache at Berlin and American
Consul-General Guenther The invent
or claimed his powder possessed ten
times the explosive and propelling
force of ordinary smokeless powder, at
a cost of 10 cents per kilo, and that it
left no residue The test, however,
turned out rather unsatisfactory. The
social event last night was the ball
costume given by the German Colonial
society, comprising everything stylish
in Berlin. Germany has addressed a
second protest to Great Britain urgent
ly requesting the release of the German
steamer Bundesrath and expressing
establishment at the undue delay.