The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-21
NEWS FROM BERLIN
LIVELY DISCUSSION OF I'll.
 TARIFF QUESTION.
tTe Publication by The Stuttgart Beebachter of Alleged Schedule of Duties Starts a Live
 ly Controversy.

Berlin, July 20.-A lively discussion of the tarih question broke out this week upon the puDication Of the new agricul- tural schedules by the Stuttgart Bee- bachter. which claims to have authentic information in this matter from the re- cent tarin conference. The two most striking features of these schedules are the high duties and the minimum and maximum changes on cereals. The mini mum hgures are the lost admissible in commercial treaties, while the maximum charges are 50 marks per ton on wheat and 50 marks per ton on rye and oats.
 The minimum charge on wheat is 55 marks per ton and on rye and oats, 50 marks. The present duties on rye and wheat are $ marks per ton, and on oats 2S marks. Animals anu meat are with out minimum. The duty on cattle and on swine has been raised to 100 marks per ton. Meat, lard and calves are scheduled for considerable increase. Sausages are raised from 110 to 450 marks per ton, but ter and cheese from 15 and 20 to 50 marks per ton and eggs from 20 to 60 marks.
 The conservative and Agrarian papers ignore or doubt the story printed by the Stuttgart Beebachter. Other papers, how ever, have investigated the matter on their own account and substantially con- firm the Beebachters schedule. The Ber- lin correspondent of the Frankfurter Zei- tung is informed that those figures are true, and the Berlin Boersen Courier has received the same information. More sig nificant is the statement published in The Hamburger correspondent, which
 
 circles, to the effect that the paper has every reason to believe the figures in question represent the present status of the tariff negotiations. but we hope, that the Reichstag will have enough political wisdom not to adopt such du- ties"
 The Frankfurter Zeitung ayers com mercial treaties will be impossible under such conditions.
 The Berliner Tageblatt is the recipient posed schedules as printed by the Stutt- gart Beebachter are correctly given. The Tageblatt considers that to be monstrous and prints statistics showing that the new duties on the basis of the imports for 1900 means an increased expenditure of 66.0 600 marks to the consumer, not to mention the rise in prices on domesuc States and Russia two of Germanys best customers, would adopt reprisals were the duties put into effect
 The Voerwaerts characterizes the pub lished schedules as spurious
 The Hamburger correspondent says the government will publish the tariff bill in a few days.
 The Cologne Gazette. in it's issue today says those papers still doubting the trust worthiness of the Stuttgart Beebachter's figures. will not long remain in doubt. as there are unmistakabe signs indicating the figures to be correct.
 The nation also fully vouches for the schedules published in the. Stuttfart beeDdCHIeT anu eApeCIS WdTS lH- stead of comgmercial treaties.
 At a congress of German butchers held this week in Bostocke growing hostility towards the Agrarians was evinced. The butchers complained they would lose a hundred million marks annually as re- suit of the prohibitions on the importa- ton of animals and predicted that meats would be veyr much dearer and poorer in quality. The sharpest denunciations of Agrarian greed were enthusiastically applauded, and a resolution was unani- throughout Germany looking toward the abolishment of the prohibitions. The con gress also passed a resolution against in- creased duties in animals.
 Prince Chun, brother of the Chinese Emperor. who is travelling toward Ser lin to express formally China's regret at the death of Baron von Kettler, will re- main in Berlin six or eight weeks He will spend much time looking over fac tories and in visiting the German ship yards.
 wik. built at the Schichau ship-building yards. show that vessel to have an aver age speed of over twenty-five knots.
 The municipality of Bireuth has voted erection Of the Wagner Theatre there by a torchlight procession in honor of Madame Cosina Wagner, a3 well as to bedeck wi,h flags all the houses of Bal reuth during the opera season.
 Prof Ernest Haeckel. the naturalist. will abandon his featuring at the Uni lessor of zoology since 1865 and future att tendance at scientific congresses, owing to the condition of his health and his great age. Haeckel has still much scien- tilc labor to accomplish. He was born in 1894.
 The royal gallery has on exhibition two portraits by Van Dyke. recently acquired by purchase. and which were formerly in the collection of Sir Robert Peel.
 The public prosecutor of Cassel has be- gun action against all members of the Board of Supervisors of the Cassel Ire (Graih drying) company. whose insolvency was announced July 4
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