The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-21
General Protest Aroused by Pub
LEGATION of the Alleged Re-
vised Schedules.
DAMAGE TO ALL INTERESTS
Butchers Voice Their Objections by
Promising Higher Prices and
Poorer Meats-Gossip of
the German Capital.

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cations. Baron Won Richthofen. secretary
OF the Imperial Foreign Office, having l3ft
this week, and a summer stiffness prevails
in Berlin political circles.
A lively discussion of the tariff question
broke out this week upon the publication of
the new agricultural schedules by rhe
Stuttgart Beobachter. which claims to have
authentic information in this matter from
the recent tariff conference. The two most
striking features Of these schedules are the
high duties. and the minimum and maximum
charges on cereals. The minimum figures
are the lowest admissible in commercial
treaties, while the maximum charges are 6
marks per ton on wheat and 60 marks per
ton on rye and oats.
Changes in Tariff Schedules.
The minimum charges on wheat Is o.
marks per ton. and on rye and oats 60
marks. The present duties on rye and
wheat are IS marks per ton and on oats "a
marks. Animals and meat are without min
imums, The duty on cattle has been raised
from marks and on swine from 50 marks
per ton to 100 marks per ton. Meat. lard
and calves are scheduled for considerable
increase. sausages are raised from ITO to
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Is to 20 to 30 marks per ton, and eggs
from 20 to so marks
The Conservative and Agrarian papers ig-
more or doubt the story printed by the
Stuttgart Beobachter. Other papers, how
ever. have investigated the matter on their
own account, and substantially confirm the
Beobachter's schedules. The Berlin corre-
spondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung is
fv,fo %t,ot = to
Berlin Boersen Courier has received the
same Information.
Will Open Tariff Fight.
More significant is the statement pub
lished in the Hamburger Correspondent,
which has close relations with the Govern
ment 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" contin-
ues the Hamburger correspondent. that
the Reichstag will have enough political
wisdom not to adopt such duties"
The Frankfurter Zeitung AYERS CONNER
cial treaties will be Impossible under such
duties, and says:
Tariff wars are In Germany's future il
the Government realizes it's intention"
The Berliner Tageblatt is the recipient Of
information to the effect that the proposed
schedules as printed by the Stuttgart
Beobachter are correctly given. The Tage-
blatt considers them to be monstrous and
prints statistics showing that the new du-
ties on the basis Of the imports for 1900
mean an increased expenditure Of &c. 900 900
marks to the consumer. not to mention the
rise in prices on domestic products, and
argues that the United States and Russia,
two Of Germany's best customers. would
adopt reprisals were the duties put into
effect. .3a.
The Vorwaerts characterizes the pub
lished schedules as usurers.
The Hamburger correspondent says the
Government will publish the tariff bill in q
few days. %
The Cologne Gazette in Its issue to-day
says those papers still doubling the trust
worthiness of the Stuttgart Beobachter's
fight will not long remain in doubt. as there
are unmistakable signs indicating the
figures to be correct. The nation also fully
vouches for the schedules published in the
Stuttgart Beobachter, and expects tariff
wars instead Of commercial treaties.
Butchers Have = Protest.
At congress of German butchers held
this week In Restoke, growing hostility to-
ward the Agrarians was evlnced. The
butchers complained that they would lose a
hundred million marks annually as result
of the prohibitions on the importation of
animals. and predicted that meats would
be very much dearer and poorer In quality.
The sharpest denunciations of agrarian
greed were enthusiastically applauded, and
resolution was unanimously adopted to
begin agitation throughout Germany looking
toward the adjustment Of the prohibition.
The congress also passed resolution
against increased duties on animals.
Berlin Gossip.
Prince Chun, brother Of the Chinese En-
peror. who is travelling toward Berlin to
express formally China's regret at the
death of Baron Won Ketteler, will remain
In Berlin six or eight weeks. He will spend
much time looking over factories and In
visiting the German shipyards.
The trial Of the Russian cruiser Nowik.
built at the Schichau shipbuilding yards.
show that vessel to have an average speed
of over twenty-five knots.
The weather has been unusually hot
throughout almost the entire country. and
the drought is extensive. Violent storms
have been announced from various parts of
the Empire, and the vineyards in portions
Of the Hartz Mountains have been almost
wholly destroyed
The beet crop has been injured in some
places by the drought. The rains have helped
in other sections. The water in the Weber
and other streams is 30 low that shipping
is attended with difficulty
The municipality Of Baireuth has voted
to celebrate the auarter-centennial Of the
erection of the Wagner Theater there by a
torchiight procession in honor OF Mime. Cost
ma Wagner, as we'll as to bedeck with fiags
all the houses Of Baireuth during the opera
season.
Professor Ernest Haeckel. the naturalist,
viii abandon HIS lecturing at the University
OF Jena, where he has been professor Of
zoology since 1seE and future ate adj
ance at the scientific congresses, owing to
the condition OF his health and his great
age. Professor Haeckel has still much sc:en-
tiftc labor to accomplish. He was born In
1894.
The royal gallery has on exhibition two
portraits by Van Dyck, recently acquired
by purchase, which were formerly In the
collection Of Sir Robert Peel
The public prosecutor of Cassel has lie.
gun action against all the members Of the
Board Of Supervisors Of the cassel-Treb.r-
Trocknung (gtain-drying) company. whose
Insolvency was announced July