Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-26
couOt Casslnl Thinks There is
Small Prospect Of One
AMERICA WOULD BE LOSER.
ua Goes TO ST. Petersburg where
lie VIII DO What He Can TO
straigbten Matters.

Nov Yor. June 26,-Before sailing for
pnssia on the steamship Kaiser VIII
,.,,, der Crosse, Count Arthur Casslni,
no 1,usslan ambassador in this coun-
,ry said some interesting things about
mo tariff trouble between the United
eotes aud Russia, He said that the
az, hing he intended doing on his
o,,,yal In st. Petersburg was to see NJ
n. Wilte. the Russian minister Of fl"
,..rce about Il. lie did not think that
pp,sia. In reprIsal for our duties on
pnssian petroleum, would impose n
beb duty on agricultural machinery OF
American manufacture.
oThe diplomatic relations" he said,
anetween Russia and America are OF
che most friendly nature, and TINS So
o"llsd conflict between them on account
~ he tariff Is an exceedingly smaH
matter and viii no doubt be setlleu
,",thin a very short time and satlsiac-
,o,JIy 10 both countries.
III IL part Of my duty to clear away
,,v clouas Of misunderstanding be-
,vsn the Two countries and there IS aD-
somtely Ao danger that the present
cordial relations Will be disturbed Dy
ne tariff business, 1t Is a very small
matter, but 70 be perfectly frank, the
agitation was started on this side or
M water and shall do all l can to
s,roighten out the trouble.
"Tbe Russian minister Of finance de-
cIored that RUSSIA did not pay any
hountv en- her sugar and 1t was SAID
tsre ina, the question left one In
doubt and to give what Is termed in q
,nry room the benefit of the doubt a
high tariff was placed on our sugar
T6,s doubt is OF a rather questionable
nature for should there be CONNER
cial which Is altogether unlikely
.-between the United States and Rus
ola this country would be the loser, as
Tho Russian exports to these shores
amount to annually only 100000,
while the United States sends millions
NJ dollars worth Of her products to
Russia every year. The volume OF
trade IS Increasing every year, and IL Is
only beginning to grow on Russian SOIL,
30 you see what ! mean when ] say
that Americans would be the losers by
commercial war,
"Of course, Russia, II hard pushed,
could get her goods from Germany, but
this would surely not be desirable TO
Americans: and another thing our trade
iightfully belongs TO this country. As
I said before the trouble does not
amoaht TO much and with such men
as Secy. Gage at the helm the matter
win be Strengthened out, hut II Is TO
b. deplored that such thing has hap
pened at this time.
"The relations between both coun'
tries are very cordial and no better
testimonial Of this can be had when
you l60K at the policy each country
adopted In relation to the recent
trouble In China. Both are almost
alike do not think that there Is any
danger of Russia imposing a prohibit
tive tax on any agricultural machinery
coming from these shores but America
should meet MS half way In this affair
and especially so In view of the meal
Cuable benefits American industries
VIII reap from the opening Of the ST.
berlan railway"
Count Cdssini on his arrival on the
other side will first go to Paris aud
snend a month there with his adopted
daughter, the Countess Marguerite. He
viii then 80 to Russia and expects 10
return here the first part Of Septem-
Der.