Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-20
AFTER V0NSTERN5URG
GERMAN ENvu1aHERE CRITICS
ED IN RNcHsTAa.
His Course in Venezuelan Settlement
Cause Of outburst on Part Of
Pan-Germans.

In debate in ths herman reichstag yes
terday on the attitude of the government in
the Venezuelan incident Prof. Hasse of
| Leipzig University pan-German and ma
| tional liberal, said:
II am not satisfied with the settlement OF
| the Venezuelan affair. A formal explana-
| ton has not occurred. The moral effect of
| our cooperation with other powers and in
| viting the intermediation Of America will
| be to increase Americas reputation while
| ours sinks. I attribute to American inter-
vention the hostile attitude of the Venezue-
lans. The behavior Of our minister. Stern
| burg, has been of such a character that the
| United States should pay his salary. re-
| fer to his well-known interview in which
he even censured the late Prince Bis
| marcks policy as being Anticipated. The
| interview shows to a high degree his van
| ity and that the batteries Of President
| Roosevelt were 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 incredible lack of national
spirit One can really call this gentleman
Germany's expiatory. envoy to the United
States"
Herr Oertel, agrarian, said:
we came out Of the Venezuela affair
opinion. The affair was not suited for fan
fares. II it were merely question of the
claims OF the Disconto Gesellschaft and its
Venezuela railway, would say Hands off,
| l rejoice over the cooperation with Eng
land for the latter showed an energetic
activity from which our statesmen could
learn. lesson
Referring to an interview which the New
York correspondent of a Berlin paper had
with Minister Sternburg, Herr Oertel re-
marked:
do not take 1t i'll Of Sternburg that he as
sembled the commanding generals Of the
seventh great power the German express
sion for the press) around him. He can
learn much from them"
Chancellor Won Buelow Replies.
Chancellor Won Buelow in the course Of
second speech repealed Prof. Hasse's as
sertion that Germany could have achieved
more in Venezuela. He said:
prof. Hasse is not satisfied with ma
terial satisfaction. He wants a special act
of expiation. 1 should like to know what
the professor had in mind. Does he wish
President Castro to send an expiatory
prince? I admit I got enough with the
Chinese expiatory prince"
Loud laughter followed the chancellor's
last remark.
Continuing. the chancellor rejected Lord
Rosebery's statement in the British house
Of lords that Germany got twelvefold
more from Venezuela than England got. He
added:
Lord Roseberys calculation was mathe-
matically and politically incorrect. The
advantages have been pretty equally dis
tributed generally, and in the Venezuela
affair in particular. According to my opin-
ion, we got all out of, Venezuela that the
circumstances permitted. An attempt to
accomplish more would. in view of my
knowledge of conditions in Venezuela and
according to my judgment of international
politics. have been a mistake"
The chancellor, denied Baron Won Hert-
lings assertion that. part of the Ger
mans in Venezuela complained of the cold
water application which we made to Vene-
zuela," because the foreign merchants there
was best" said the chancellor. before be-
ginning military steps that we exhaust
every possibility sof securing a peaceable
settlement. and having begun them, that we
keep within reasonable and moderate linn
its.
prof. Hasse and Herr oertel made sharp
attacks on our representative at Washing
tom I had already caused denial to be
Baron Won Sternburg used the language at
tributed to him; especially that he did not
say Prince Bismarck's policy was anti
quated. nor that minister should repre-
sent the interests of the country to which
he is accredited as we'll as the interests of
his own country. The Journalists misun-
derstood Baron Won Sternburg as he ex-
planned in his report to the foreign office.
/ must beg the members not to attack the
German representative at SO important
post as Washington for matters which later
prove untrue.
As to Marrying Foreigners.
"Prof Hasse also mentioned that Baron
Won Sternburg married an American lady.
Petitions of our ministers to marry for
eigners have been treated differently at DIFF
ferent times which is only natural. Such
cases cannot all be decided by the same for
mula. The principle has been held, espe-
cially under Count Won Caprivi, that a Ger
man diplomatist must marry only Ger
man woman. Prince Bismarck emphasized
the same principle. but he permitted nu-
merous exceptions"
The chancellor then mentioned cases
where Prince Bismarck allowed distinguish
ed German diplomatists to marry foreign
ers. He referred to the case Of Gen. Count
Won Schweinitz. who was German ambas-
sador at St. Petersburg and quoted Prince
Bismarcks letter giving him permission to
marry an American, as follows:
Refusal to grant permission to Count
Won SchweinitZ to marry an American
would exercise an extremely unfavorabe
influence upon our relations with the
United States. which have been SO carefully
promoted. There are enough tendencies at
work against us in America, and our re-
fusal would be utilized in hostile sense I"
II believe. therefore" Won Buelow con-
tinued, that we can apply the same prin-
ciple to our present representative at Wash
ington Prince Bismarck took the great
est care to foster good relations with
America and our oversee interests are
today much more weighty than in the los
or sos, and nobody can dispute that our
relations with America are just as impor-
tant now
Will Not Reply.
|. Baron Won Sternburg, the German envoy,
has decided not to reply or comment in
any way on the attack made on him in
the reichstag. To a representative of the