The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
GERMAN TARIFF
BILL PASSED
Reichstag INDUCED in an All.
night Session.
SPEECH EIGHT HOURS LONG
SOCIALISTS LAUGHED AT CHAN
CELLoR Won BUELoW.

DERLIN, Dee. 1S.-In the reiehstag
I'D today Chancellor Won Buelow
opened the discussion Of the third
reading of the tariff bin. saying that
the allied governments had agreed on
the bill as it passed its second read
ing. and also would accept the abo-
Iion Of the municipal oetrois now that
the date of it's taking on had been
fixed for 1910. The government had
also agreed that at some future date
a pension fund should be established
Tor widows and orphans from the pro-
ceeds of the tariff revenues, and had
accepted the Herold motion. according
70 which animals and meats viii not
have the minimum duties, and the du-
ties on grains are changed from the
committees figures TO those of the
government. except mailing barley. the
duty on which is raised from 10 cents
TO 81, and that other harley will be
without a minimum duty
When the chancellor proceeded to eX-
plain that the government. in accept
ing the increase of the minimum on
mating barley, did not act inconsist-
emily with its previous declarations.
which merely applied to barley ia
general, the socialists laughed iron
ically. whereupon the chancellor
begged to be heard quietly. adding:
I sat here on Thursday listening
patiently and behaving deeently dur
ing Herr Bebefs long polemieai speech
shall thank you if you adopt SINH
lar attitude when I speak
Unruly Socialists.
As the socialists continued their
laughter, President Won Ballestrom
Ill
| Of the house TO hear the chancellor
quietly. The socialists replied, jeer-
ingly; why. we are only laughing -
The chancellor then proceeded. say
| ing that the customs offices could cas-
| lily distinguish mailing from feed bar
/ ley, and closed with saying: The al
/ lied governments hope this high house,
| through its decisions on the third read
| ing of the bill. will bring about uni
/ son between the bundesrath and the
reiehstag, and thereby complete the
| great work of tariff reform for the
| fatherland."
While the governments original fig
ures on grain are restored, the commit
/ tee increases in other sections steud,
/ including heavy advances on animals
and meats above the governments fig
ures. The former tariff becomes a
| general tariff, which will be referred
except where commercial treaties are
made. Some OF the meat duties adopt
ed compare as follows with the gov
! eTnment's:
Bacon, 50 per metric hundredweight
against $3.50.
Simply prepared meats. SIS against
$s.75-
Meat deIicacies $50, against $1S.75-
oysters $25, against $3.50
Sharp Debate.
| After Herr Richter and others had
spoken, DR.. Barth made a sharp at
| tack on Chancellor Won BueloW, wht
replied, praisins the patriotic spirit o!
the majority parties and admitting thai
he had taken an active part in effect
ing a compromise on the tariff bill il
the form ef a practical basis for ar
ranging efficient treaties which WOulS
surely be reached with the good vii
of both sides But the situation wa
not helped when DR.. Barth and hi
friends asserted that Germany ha,
more need for treaties than other coun
tries The chancellor added:
Il wish to warn foreign cOuntrie
against attaching too great weight L
sitiOn OF economic distress, whie
compels US to pass through the eau
dine forks. Germany is the best buy
er in the world. Your imports excee
our exports by a billion. other state
have precisely the same interest in tn
renewal of treaties as we have. There
fore, we enter into the negotiations wit
q loyal intention to reach a just an
reasonable mean between cOnf1ictin
interests, domestic and foreign, bu
with self-confldence which the econom