The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-13
HUNGARY MUS I. HANDLE OWN
 TARIFF

l homie union have received a setback at the hands of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce. In emphatically worded resolutions that body has declared that the new Ausgleich with Austria shall be for only ten years, and has further expressed its conviction that Hungary must be independent of Aus tria in customs matters, and have her own tariffs.
 The Ausgleich is the working agree ment between Austria and Hungary for carrying on the joint affairs of the dual monarchy, including provision | for customs and finances. Orlginat- ing in the compromise of 1867 the le- gal term of the agreement was fixed at ten years, but since the movement began for closer economic union be tween Germany and Austria-Hungary, it has been urged that the Ausgletch, which expires next year, be extended to twenty or twenty-five years, so as to make possible some of the read justments that would not be possible in a shorter period. The leaders in the movement for the economic unlOn who have been meeting in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest. Munich, Dresden and Prague, have considered the ex tension of the Ausgleich to be a most essential matter, and the action of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce in opposition to'it has caused much trri- tation among those who hope that the new economic alliance will be per fected.
 It is said that the Hungarian pari!a- ment, one the whole, is also opposed to the extension of the Ausgleich. The negotiations every ten years for each new ausgleich have always been used by the politicians of Budapest to ex- tract all sorts of compensation, po!l.i- cal. financial and economic, from the government in Vienna, and the Hun garians will not readily sacrifice such a powerful weapon.
 The determined stand by the BIda pest Chamber in the matter of a sep aration of the customs system of the monarchy has also opened up serious problems. While Hungary is chiefly an agricultural state, it has in the past few years been laboriously build | ing up various industries with govern ment subventions and all sorts of pc petition with Austria, which is chiefly manufacturing state. In Hungary it has been decreed that no official sup plies are to be bought outside of Hun gary, not even in Austria, If they can possibly be produced or bought in Hungary. Further, the leading indus trial interests have insisted that a speedy development of home industry can only be brought about if Hungary has her own system of tariffs, so as to close her frontier against Austria, and make her own commercial treaties with other nations.
 The agricultural interests, on the other hand, prefer the continuance of the common customs tariffs for the whole empire, as they desire to shut out the importation of foreign grain and cattle and meat, in common with their Austrian associates, and then, too, they sell most of their produce in Austria.
 Since the outbreak of the war, the internal relations between Austria and Hungary had considerable improved, and it was hoped that suffering under this common burden, the two nations would become still more closely united in the future.
 But all the influences of the war and the necessity for showing an un' divided front to the foe, have failed to make the Hungarian manufacturers recede from their demands for GUS toms separation from Austria. It Is true that the resolutions of the Cham Der of Commerce admit that the time is not opportune for making such tremendous change, but in the firm conviction is expressed that an inde' pendent customs territory is the only way of developing home industries Even this statement of the situation was too mild for some of the speakers in the debate, who insisted that the ! separation should be pressed forward without delay and petitions sent to