The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-19
WAR OF TARIFFS
WITH UNCLE SAM
France Opens the Ball by I'm
posing the Highest Pos
SibIe Rates.

Paris, Oct. 1S.-What may prove to
be the first preliminary skirmish in
war of tariffs with the United States
has just been performed by France. A
government decree has been issued
which, as a reply to a similar measure
/ taken by America, repeats all previous
| enactments, which allowed to Ameri-
can imports into this country the bene-
/ Mt OF the minimum tariff.
| FROM Nov next all goods from the
united States coming into France will
pay the rates of the French general
| tarlI1; this is to say, the highest du-
/ ties chargeable. The question is
whether the United States will not re-
| taliate, in which case France will have
| no weapon left for a second blow un-
less she reV1ses and increases her gen
4 erai tariff, a step which public Opin-
ION IS not prepared at all to sanction
at the present moment Yet the gem
eraI feeling against the action of the
/ United States is very strong in trade
circles.
The only business which prefers the
new tariff to the old one is that OF
picture dealing, which very heavily
penallzed IN the past, is now TO be
more mercifully handed. In the in
terest of at least temporary peace, the
French government. while issuing the
above decree, is at the same time be-
states in the endeavOr to obtain a
proi0ngauOn of the present status quo
until August. or, at least, March. 1910.
If these negotiations prove successful,
the tariff war would not begin until
one OF those dates.
x
Under the Eiffel Tower a new wire
less teIegraphy installation. consisting
OF vast buildings in iron and cement
with half a dozen workrOOms living
quarters for a staff of some twenty
men, and small circular electric rail-
way, communicating with a powerful
e1ectric lift, is being built. and will
probably be completed by Oct 1. When
II Is in working order the Eiffel Tower
will be able to send messages to a
distance of something like 5000 miles. |
Recently Hertzian waves from the
I tower have reached Canada, and event |
ually it Is hoped to set up wireless
communication with San Francisco.
X
DR.. DOyen, who is now attending a
scientific congress at Buda Pesth. is
stated TO have performed a marvellous
operation before leaving He succeed |
ed, it is said, in grating part of the
vein of sheep to a mans leg, to his
own and the patients satisfaction. He !
mad previously performed an operation |
which was in itself successful on |
the patient in question, but soon af- |
terward he discovered that the cir |
culatiOn in a vein of the mans leg
was insufficient, owing to the contrac- |
tion of the vein. This brought on |
big swelling in the leg. and DR.. |
DOyen judged that the only remedy |
was to renew the vein for q distance |
of about four inches. A live sheep |
was brought to the laboratory and |
after being put under an anaesthetic |
its Jugular vein was removed entirely, |
and piece four inches long was |
grated into the mans leg replacing |
the contracted portion of the vein. The |
normal circulation of the blood was |
Immediately established. and the |
joining began to heal rapidly. The |
swelling in the leg also disappeared |
soon after the operation had been COM
pleted.
The activity, Of Admiral Boue de
Lapeyrere is the joy Of the French |
navy. 1t was a happy thought to give |
the minister an der-secretary. for |
the admiral is freed from all office |
worries. NJ. CherOn. on the other hand. |
is perfectly at home in matters of ad- /
ministration. He loves them; he
revels in them. The minister takes |
care to hold council every week with |
the chiefs of the naval services. and /
the interval he fills up in inspecting /
ships ports and arsenals. His latest /
step is an important one. From the /
time Of NJ Camille Pellatan Roche |
fort was threatened as a military port |
Even under M. Picard, the inhabi- |
tants had given up all hope of preserv- |
ing their ancient privilege. Admiral |
BOue de Lapeyrere has promptly set /
tied the matter. He suddenly turned /
up at ROchefort, refused addresses of /
welcome, dispenses with official ETH
quette, and sets to work to examine |
for himself. He came to the conclu- /
ElOE tfdL hOCneIOIL arsenal was In i
some respects better than that of TOu- /
Ion. and splendidly adapted for the /
construction and reparatiOns of the /
smaller unities of the Frens squadrOns. |
The mayor and municipality of Roche /
fort, therefore, received the glad It'd /
ings that the old military port would |
be respected and that a new era of
prosperity was in store:
The Duke of Orleans has been voy-
aging along the coast of Greenland,
and the last news given of him is that
his yacht, the Belgiea, reached SpitZ-
bergen on July 1. 1t is a remarkable |
circumstance that the pretender seems
to hide himself just at the time when
his followers are full of hope. Royal
ist committees were never more active,
the sentiment being that the thrOnt of
the Bourbons is the only. possible al
tentative to the Republican regime
Duke Philip is perhaps not unwise in
the course he is pursuing. Instead of /
leading an Idle and gay life in Eu-
years has devoted himself to explora-
tons a la ShackletOn. and in so doing
has earned a certain amount of esteem
In France. OF Prince Victor Napoleon
we hear little or nothing, and his party
is not so strong as it was. On the
whole the republic seems to have a
long lease on life before or it.
Among the incidents that have a
very irritating effect on French Catho-
lies may be mentioned that connected
with the blSnOp OF NerGun. That pre-
late had been expelled by gendarmes
from the Episcopal palace at the time
of the application of the separation
law. He then obtained a residence
from the municipality on a lease of
twelve years at a rent of 5000 francs
per annum. new municipal council
has now been returned. and they have
suddenly quashed the lease on the
score that the house was wanted By
the military governor. The bishop
points out that there were other houses
equally suitable for the purpose and
that the procedure of the municipality
is simply vexatious. He threatens TO
shake the dust from his feet" and
leave the city. A recourse to law one |
would think, would put matters right:
but IN France public utility" is a
sufficient plea for arbitrary acts.