The age-herald., 1900-01-15
SAMOAN QUESTION
 IS HAPPILY ENDED Ambassador White Gives Out an
 Interview in Berlin. AMERICAN MEAT QUESTION Germany Has Made Second Request for the Release of the Bundesrath,
 and Expresses Astonish-
 ment at the Delay
AMERICAN MEAT QUESTION

Copyrighted, 1sOO by the Associated Press). Berlin, January 14.-The correspondent of the Associated Press interviewed the Unised States ambassador, MT. Andrew White, about the relations between Germany and the United States. MT. White. said: 1.-The Samoan question between the United States and Germany, tine insurance ques- tion and sundry minor questions have been happily settled. The main questions which
 remain are the commercial treaty and the inspection of American meats. The lat-
 ter will be mainly considered at Washing ton. The latter must depend upon the
 action of the reiehstag.
 Though the agrarian party shows bitter hostility to the alleviation of the present arrangement, so oppressive to American
 interests, it is hoped that the paragraph in President AlcI<inley's message for the appointment of a special commission will fix matters.
 There is no doubt that the agrarians would be glad to see some such fair set dement, This was foresshadowed when the | emperor explained at considerable length to me on New Years Day not only his own personal satisfaction, but that of the German people, at the part of the message referring to Germany. It is also an open secret that Prince Hohenlehe and Count von Buelow were specially anx.ous to see some such solution Of this most troublous of an questions now pending before the two governments"
 Politically, 1le week was interesting in several respects The reiolhstag dull, but the coming week foreign affairs Will be discussed. Count von Buelow the min ister of foreign affairs, will review recent events and furnish some inside informa- tion.
 In the Diet the governments complete
 moral defeat during the discussion on the dismissal of politicians for voting against
 the canal bill is considered to be of great importance, as 1t shows the conservatives still intend to bitterly oppose the emperor, especially on the new canal bill, which | does not please the agrarianss in spite of the fact that it contains enough improve ment projects for the eastern province of | Prussia
 Seizure of German Steamers The seizure of German steamers by Brit
 ish warshps have had the effect of intensi- flying and generalizing anti-British senti- | ments in Germany. It would be difficult to- day to find a German here or anywhere who dares profess Anglophilism. All the anti-German utterances in the British press are circulated here. One which caused great bittenment was in Punch poem, starting Little Germany talk, which is printed everywhere.''
 Count Won Buelow's speech at the launch- ing of the Hamburg-American steamer Deutschland, especially the terms of friend ship he devoted to the United States is
 much commented on by the German press and with few exceptions, approvingly. The German Training Ship society was formally organized today under the presi- dency of the hereditary Prince of Olden-
 burg, in the presence of representatives of the shipping and commerce societies. Prussia has now begun appointing female factory inspectors. The budget contains appropriations for their salaries of 2,400
 marks. each.
 test occurred today in Vilbel, near, Frankfort, of a newly invented smokeless and no.seless powder. Among those pres ent were the French naval attache at Der lin, the American consul general, MT. Guenther, representatives of the Prussian war department and Pruss.an army and representatives of the powder works at
 Cologne and Breslau.
 The inventor claimed his powder con- tained ten times the explosive and pro- polling force of ordinary smokeless pow
 der 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 a ball costume given by the German colonial so- ciety, comprising every thing stylish in Der lin. It took place at Krol1s theater. Anna teurs, among them Princess von Lynar, Princess von Pless and Baroness von Mir baclr performed the colonial comedy "Ninga's Wedding" The empress and
 nearly the whole court attended
 A Second Request The Associated Press correspondent
 learns from an official source that Ger
 many alas addressed a second protest to
 Great Britain, urgently requesting the re-
 lease of the German steamer Bundesra&h,
 and expressing astonishment at the undue
 delay The protest also demands guaran- tees from Great Britain in another such case It also requires Great Britain to define the meaning of contraband in a manner acceptable to the nations not concerned in the war. An interpolation about the seizures will foe introduced the coming Friday in the reiohstag, and Count von Buelow, the min lister of foreign affaiEs, will answer an
 interpolation introduced by Herr Mueller, all the parties signing it.
 It Is understood that MT. White today expressed to the foreign office the appre- citation the authorities at Washington felt
 at Count von Buelow's American words of
 Wednesday.