Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-17
TEN YEAR AUSGLEICH
German and Austrian Aspira
tions for Closer Economic
Union Gets Setback.

Union Gets Setback.
SERIOUS PROBLEMS ARE vi
Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
Vienna, June 30.-German an,
Austrian aspirations for a close
economic union have just received f.;
setback at the hands Of the Budapes
Chamber of Commerce. In emphatic
ally worded resolutions that body ha,
declared that the new ausgleich witt
Austria shall be for only ten years
and has further expressed its con
vietion that Hungary must be indie
pendent OF Austria in customs mat
tiers, and have her own tariffs.
The ausgleich is the working agree
ment between Austria and Hungar,
for carrying on the joint affairs of the
dual monarchy, including provision
for customs and finances. Original.
ing in the compromise of 1867, the
legal term OF the agreement was
fixed at ten years, but since the move.
ment began for a closer economic
union between Germany and Austria.
Hungary il has been urged that the
ausgleich, which expires this year,
be extended to twenty or twenty-five
years so as to make possible some
Of the re-adjustments that would not
be possible in shorter period. The
leaders in the movement for the eco
nomic union, who have been meeting
In Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Munich,
Dresden and Prague, have considered
the extension Of the ausgleich to be
a most essential matter, and the &C.
ton Of the Budapest Chamber of
Commerce In opposition to II has
caused much irritation among those
who hope that the new economic al
lance will be perfected.
1t Is said that the Hungarian par
lament, on 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 in Budapest
to extract all sorts of compensation,
political, financial and economic, from
the government in Vienna, and the
Hungarians will not readily sacrifice
such powerful weapon.
Makes Determined Stand.
The determined stand by the Buda-
pest Chamber Of Commerce in the
matter Of separation of the customs
systems of the monarchy has also
opened up serious problems. While
Hungary is chiefly an agricultural
state, Il has In the past few years
been laboriously building up various
industries with government subven-
tons and all sorts or political assist
ance, to the point Of competition with
Austria, which is chiefly manufac-
uring state. In Hungary it has been
decreed that no official supplies are
to be bought outside of Hungary,
not even in Austria, IL they can pos
sibly be produced or bought in Hun
gary. Further, the leading industrial
interests have insisted that a speedy
development Of home industry can
only be brought about IL Hungary
has her own system OF tariffs, 50 as
to close her frontier against Austria,
and make her own commercial treaties
with other nations.
The agricultural interest, on the
other hand, prefer the continuance of
the common customs tariffs for the
whole empire as they dseire to shut
out the importation OF foreign grain.
and cattle, and meat, in common with
their Austrian associates, and then
TO sell most Of their produce in
Austria. .." -.
Since the outbreak of the war.
the internal relations between Aus
tria and Hungary had consider
ably 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 manufacturer
recede from their demands for Gus
toms separation from Austria. 1t is
true that the resolutions Of the Cham
Der OF Commerce admit that the time
is not opportune for making such a
tremendous change, but the firm
conviction Is expressed that an in
dependent customs territory is the
only way of developing home indus
tries. Even this statement of the
situation was too mild for some OF
the speakers in the debate, who in
sisted that the separation should be
pressed forward without delay and
petitions sent to the parliament to this
end. 4a.'
With regard to Germany, the reso-
buttons demand that new recipro-
cal commercial treaty, shall be en-
tered into which shall pay the ut
most possible regard to the interests
Of all the participants. without ex-
GLIDING foreign nations from the besc-
fits OF the special concessions. i
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