The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-30
NO OBJECTION
 NOW TO HILL The German Government Sends Approval. SATISFACTORY TO EMPEROR Foreign Office Gives Out Candid
 Statement. Ambassador at Washington Insisted That Incident Was Having HI
 Effect on Public opinion
 in America.
SATISFACTORY TO EMPEROR

Berlin March 29.-Emperor William. having been fully advised as to the at titude of President Roosevelt and the feeling of the American public in re- gard to the alleged refusal of his maj esty to receive pr. David Jayne Hill as American Ambassador to Germany in succession to Charlemagne Tower, has withdrawn all the expressions of disapproval he recently sent to Pres- ident Roosevelt and would be pleased to receive pr. Hill as American Am- bassador.
 The Emperor has caused this view to be communicated to President Roose- welt.
 The German Foreign once has sent to the Associated Press the following oficial declaration on the subject:
 The notices which have appeared hitherto in the foreign press in regard to the Hill affair have originated in the erroneous impression that 1t was intended in Berlin to recall the approv- al given here last autumn to MT. HITS appointment. This has never been thought of. It is true that doubts sub seouently arose as to whether MT. Hill would feel comfortable in the post of American Ambassador to Berlin. but these doubts have been removed so that nothing stands in the way of MT. HiiIs nomination to the Berlin embassy and he will be welcome in Berlin now, as ne would have been before, or as any otn- ar nnobjectionable representative would be who should be named by President Roosevelt
 .iTt is to be stated emphatically that throughout the whole Incident the Am- bassador, Mir. Tower, has not swerved for one instant in the straight line of absolute loyal and honorable conduct. hoth toward his own Government ana the imperial German Government.
 Baron von sternberg, the German Annbassador at Washington has, dur ing the last forty-eight hours, been in inc closest touch with the Foreign Of- fice and has cabled fully concerning the matter. He described the neea oI speedv arrangement of the affair and President Roosevelt's difficulties in meeting the Emperor's inclination, and furthermore, the unpleasant effect the whole controversy was having upon American public opinion.
 The German Foreign ofiiee since yes- terday morning has sent number of lengthy dispatches to the Emperor at Venice, through Baron Jerlsch, the renresentative of the Foreign Ofice who is with the Emperor.
 As soon as a definite statement of the Emperor's wishes was received by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Herr von Schoen, the Secretary and Ambassa- dor Tower had & long conference at the Foreign Offlce at which~the entire subject was gone over. At the con- clusion of the conference Secretary von Schoen cabled the foregoing statement to the German Ambassador at Wash ington and complete additional expla- nations.
 Ambassador Tower also cabled to the State Department the fullest details of all that had been done.
 The aim of the German Foreign Of- flee Is to close the incident in a man ner satisfactory to the President and the people of the United States.
 Washington Not Advised.
 Washington. March 29.-The news from Berlin that Emperor William had recalled his objections to the appoint ment of David Payne Hill as American Ambassador at Berlin. has not been officially communicated either to Pres ident Roosevelt or the Department.
 Secretary Loeb. when informed by the Associated Press that Emperor William had relented and had accord ing to dispatches from Berlin so ad- vised the President. stated that no communication of that nature had yet been received. In the absence of fsucb official notification, he added, there was nothing to be said on the subject to- night.
 Secretary Root said he was pleased to hear that the German Emperor was now willing to accept Dr. H;ll, but that the State Department was with out any advices confirmatory of the Berlin dispatch. He was not prepared to say what the outcome would be in the event that the report of the Em- peror's about-face should prove true.
 Likes Towers More Than Hills.
 Washington, March 29.-The curious fact about the Hill incident is that in all of its stages it has taken no off, hcial form.
 It has been extremely difficult to se- cure any admission from any author ized source in Washington that there have been any exchanges at all on this subject. Yet there has never been the slightest doubt .n diplomatic circles here of the accuracy of the first an- nouncement that Dr. Hill was not fully acceptable to Emperor William.
 For at least a fortnight preceding the actual declaration, there had been more or less quiet gossip about the situation at the German court. The conclusion was reached that this was a case that fully bore out the wisdom of the old adage that it IS unsafe to mix business and friendship.
 Emperor William was known to be of a warm. impulsive and sympath etic temperament; and 1t was readily under stood here how he could have permit ted his feeling of personal friendship for Ambassador Tower and his wife to sway him to the point where he was ready to look with disfavor upon their displacement.
 The Ambassadorial office Is one of a strongly personal character. The fact is recognized officially that the Ann bassador, coming, as he does, as per sonal representative of the ruler whose credentials he bears, Is entitled to ad- mission to the very family of the sov- ereign to whom the credentials are di- rected. It follows naturally that the wishes of that sovereign should be con- suited in a degree not usual where Q minister plen.potentiary is concerned
 Omcial etiquette requires that in the case of a minister mere unofficial in- quiry sufices to develop the fact wheth- CT he is likely to be acceptable. In the case of an Ambassador the inquiry must Re formal and there $ not the alighsaat reservation as to the right oS the sovereign te reject the nominee