The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-20
BARON STERNBERG
ATTACKED IN THE
REICHSTAG
Minister at Washington Said
to Have Served the United
States Better Than His
Own Country in the Ven
ezuelan Negotiations His
American Wife.

BERLIN, March 19.-In the reichs-
tag today, during the discussion of the.
foreign office section of the budget,
Baron Won Hertling, Center party, re-
ferred to the Venezuelan affair. He
said doubts arose as to whether it was
necessary for Germany to risk SO
much. Chancellor Won Buelow replied.
He said:
I'VE had to take care that our rela-
lions with other powers should not be
disturbed through this relatively sub
ordinate matter. There was no lack
of attempts to create such a disturb
ance. 1 here refer, OF course, to no
government but the press, which at
tempted to engender ilI-will between
the governments at London, Berlin and
Rome on one side and the United
States on the other. The most uE-
grounded and silliest rumors were cir
culated, as if we designed to land
troops, make conquests or viohte the
integrity of the South American re-
publics. In such lying legends one
American paper was especially great.
1t invented an official of it's own in
the foreign office, who informed the
paper that We wanteV to swallow Ven
eZuela first, then Colombia and finally
Brazil"
Sails Into Sternberg.
Prof. Hasse, of Leipsig- university,
Pan-German and National Liberal,
said:
Il am not satisfied with this settle
ment Of the Venezuelan afInir. The
moral effect of our cooperation with
other powers and inviting the inter-
mediation of America will be to in
crease Americas reputation, while ours
sinks. 1 attribute to American inter-
Vention the hostile attitude of the
Nenezuelans. The behavior of our min
lister, Sternberg, has been of such a
character that the United States
should pay his salary. I refer to his
Well-known interview in which he even
censured the late Prince Bismarck's
policy as being antiquated. The inter-
view shows to high degree his vanity
and that the batteries of President
Roosevelt were a strong dose. I have
no words in which to characterize his
action. He even ventures to place the
president on the same plane with the
German emperor. Why, that is an in
credible lack of national spirit. One
can really call this gentleman Ger
many's eXpiatory envoy to the United
States"
Referring to an interview which the
New York correspondent of a Berlin
paper had with Herr Sternberg, Herr
Oertal, Agrarian, remarked: II never
read more foolish sentences. l do not
think 1t i'll of Sternberg that he assem-
bled the commanding generals of the
seventh great power (the German ex-
preston for the press) around him.
He can learn much from them"
Chancellor Won Buelow, in a second
speech, repealed Prof Haase's asser-
ton that Germany could have achieved
more in Venezuela. He said:
Chancellor in Defense.
Sharp attacks have been made on
our actions in Venezuela in Washing
ton. l have already published a denial
In the North German Gazette of the
assertions attributed to Baron Won
Sternberg, especially that he did not
say that Prince Bismarcks policy was
antiquated and that a minister should
represent the interests of the country
10 which he is accredited as well as the
interests of his own country. Baron
Won Sternberg had been misunderstood
as ne explained in his report to the
foreign office. I must beg the members
not to attack the German representa-