The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-21
RAISE IN DUTIES
GERMANY IS PREPARING To PUT
UP MORE BARS AGAINST
FOREIGN IMPORTS
GENERAL HOWL OF PROTEST
Points Out That Agrarian Greed
Means Hardship to Millions
of German Com
sumers
TARIFF WAR IS PREDICTED

BERLIN. July 2O.-AII the leading men.
pers OF the ministry are now absent on
their vacations. Baron Won Richtaofen
secretary Of the imperial foreign Office
mas left this week, and summer of still
circles.
! A lively discussion Of the tariff ques-
ton broke out this week upon the pib-
hcatlon of the new agricultural sched-
: uIes by the Stuttgart Beobachter. which
CLAIMS to have authentic information in
| this matter from the recent tariff CON
ference. The two most striking features
| OF the schedules are the high duties and
| the min mum and maximum charges ON
| cereals The minimum figures the tho
| lowest admissible in commercial treaties
| WhHe the maximum Charges are 65
marks per ton on wheat and 90 marks
| Per ton on rye and oats. The minimum
charge on wheat Is So marks psA ton
and on rye so marks. The presen. duties
| on rye and wheat are 80 marks per ton
| ana on oats 2S marks. Animals and meat
! are without m.nimuns The duty ON
/ cattle has been raised and c a swine from
90 marks Fer ton to 100 marks per ton.
! Meat, lard and calves are scheduled for
considerable increases. Sausages arc
| raised from 40 to $50 marks per tom
: putter and cheese from 10 to 20 to 20
| marks per ton, and eggs from 20 TO co
! marks The Conservative and Agrariar
papers ignore or doubt the story printed
{ by the Stuttgart Beobachter other pa
| Pers' however have investigated Tie
| matter on their own account and sub
| stantially confirm the Beobachter's sched-
ules The Berlin correspondent of the
| franKrurter Zeitung Is informed that
these figures are true, and the Berlin
Boersen-Courier has the same informa-
| tlon. More significant is the statement
| published in the Hamburger Correspond-
ent, which has close relations with the
| government circles, to the effect that
the paper has every reason to believe
the hgures IN question represent the pres
! ent status Of the tariff negotiations.
But we hope" continues the Hamburg
er Correspondent, that the reichscag viii
| nave enough poliO.cal wisdom not to
! adopt such duties
| The F'rankfurter Zeitung AYERS COM
mercial treaties viii be impossible un-
/ der such duties, and says:
TARIFF WARS PREDICTED.
Tariff wars are in Germany's future
II the government realizes its intention"
The Berliner Tageblatt Is the recipient
OF information to the effect that the pro-
/ posed schedules, as printed by the Stutt-
I CART Beobachter, are correctly given The
Iageblatt considers them to be mon
|
the new duties on the basis of the i'm
ports for 1900 means an Increased ex-
penditure of 66,000,0a0 marks to the CON
sumer, 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
| The Vorwaerts characterlzes the pub
| liShed schedules as usurious
| The Hamburger Correspondent SAYS the
! government will publish the tariff bill
in few days
The Cologne Gazette in It's Issue of to-
day, says those papers still doubling the
! trustworthiness of the Stuttgart Beo-
pachters hgures VIII not long remain In
doubt. as there are unmlstakable Signs
| indicating the figures to be correct
The National-Zetung vouches for the
schedules published In the Slut gait
Beobachter and expects tariff wars In
st ad Of CONNER -ial treaties.
AGRARIANs DENOUNCED.
At a cong ess Of German butchers he'd
this week in Rostock, growing hostility
| towards the Agrarians was eVnced TIE
butch rs complained they would lose a
h ndred million Ks annually as a
! result # the prChl itions on the impcrta-
tion Of animals and pred cted that meats
would be very much dearer and poorer
in quality The sha pes, denunoiati ns
| Of Agrarian gree1 We're enthusias ical.y
app "a ded ond a re ,olution was unanf-
mous.y ad p ed to begin agitation
throughout Germany looking toward the
/ abolishment OF the prohibitions TIE
congress also passed resolution aga t
increased duties on animals
GJSS p OF THE WEEK
Prince Chun. brother of the Chinese
emperor, who is travelling toward Ber-
! lin to eXp-ess fOrma ly China egret at
the death of Baron Won ketteler. VIII
remain in Berlin six or eight weeks He
will spend much time loo ing over fac
tories and in visiting the German ship
yards.
The trial Of the Russian cruiser Nowik,
built at the Chichau shipbunaing yards,
show that vessel to have an average
speed Of Of over twenty-five knots
The weather has been unusually hot
! throughout almost tn entire co int y. and
| drought is extensive. Violent storms
| have been announced from Yari us points
in the emp re and the vineyards In Dor-
tions Of the Ha IL mountains have been
| almos. wholly destroyed I. G beet crop
! has been injured In some places by the
! drought, while the ia rs have helped in
other sections The water In the Weser
and other streams is so low that shipping
is attended with difficulty
The municipality Of Bareuth has voted
/
erection of the v agner theater there by
! torcEight pro cession in honor Of Nine.
! Cosima Wagner, as wei as TO bedeck
with flags a the houses Of Eai-euth
during the opera season.
Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the naturalist,
will abandon his lecturing at the Uni
versity of Jena where he has b, en- pro-
fessor of zoo ogy since 1865, and future
! attendance at s :ientihc congresses owing
to the condit ons of his health and his
great age Prof. Haecl1el has much SCI
entlfic lator to accomplish. He was
born in 1894.
The royal gallery has on exhibition two
| portraits by Van Dyck, recenty acquired
| by pure hase, and which were formerly in
the collecio of Sir Robert Peel
The public prosecutor Of Cassel has be-
gun action against all tho members OF
the board of supervisors Of the CasseI
Treber-Trocknung tgrain drying COM
pany, whose insolvency was announced
July 4.
To Improve Appleton Power Plant.