The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-06
HUNGARY .sBALkS :
 ON ONIl' Nl'aAUSGILIEICHa' , 5 WITH AUsTRfANS
B1dapesf, Chamber. of Com-
 merce Insists It Lasts -si0 hE0nly 10'Years

vienna. July b.-German ana Aus triap aspirations for a closer economic .un1onA have efeceivedAa setback at the hands. of the Budapest Chamber of reAetutte ens xthAt body rhasri declared Sthat the new new Ausgleich with Austria sh32t .be For, jonly ten years, and has further expressed it's conviction that t71heafy.must be Independent of Aus tria in customs matters, and have her own tariffs. x " S4t. ss, z, ,si 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. Originating Sn..tAa..compremiseA -l867 the legal HeEm=of the agreement was. fixed at ten years, but since the movement be- gan for closer economic union be- t&een Germany and Austria Hungary 1tf has been urged that the Ausgleich, which expires next year, be extended td twenty ior twenty-five years so as to make possiblss some of the read 5ustmentss that would not be possible In g sshoFter period. The leaders in the movement for the economic un- ion who have been, meeting in Der lin. Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Dres-
 
 extension of the Ausgleich to be a mpst essential matter. and the action of he Budapest Chamber of Com nerce in opposition to it has caused much irritation among those who hxbe that the new economic alliance VIII be perfected.
 1t is said that the Hungarian parlia-, n4ent 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. int Budsp pest to ex-i tract all Sorts of co4npensatiori, poll ticalt financial and economic, from fhs governmeiie in Vienna, and the H1ngarians will not readily sacrifice such a powerful weapon.
 The determined stand by the Buda- pct Chamber in the matter 5ef sep afAtioH of thsA customs systems of the -mqnarchy haA also opened up serious pf9blefns. M While Hungary. is chiefly A4 agricultural state, 1t has in. the pat few years been laboriously build ank up various industries with govern m&nt subventiois and all sorts of po- fiscal assistance, to the point of com ptfitions with Austria. which is chiefly a &nanufacturing state. In Hungary it,$ $has, been HdSSre1d that no y0fficiat suB Bplies arekto be bought outside of Hungary, not even in Austria, if they can possibly be produced or bought 1n6 Hungary. Further. the leading in dq&tria1 interests have insisted that all GpXedy development of home industry 1cak only be brought about if Hungary Ind her own system of tAriffs SC as ko4close her frontier against Austria. aH& make her own commercial treat 1eE with other nations <, ! '
 &he agricultural interests, on the otlIer hand prefer the continuance of thg common Gustofhs tariffs for the WNple empire as they desire to> shut ou& the importation Of foreign grain. an& cattle, and meat.,i in common with th(ir Austrian Eassociates, and then, to& they sell most of their produce in Al btria is.; sl.ss tit-lt'.t >;5 tfs,f
 Nince the. outbreak of the war. the III 4krnal relations between Austria and H7ngary had Considerably improved ai 1t was hoped that suffering under th5 common burden, the two nations wJnld become still more closely united 1n khe future.
 But all the influences of the war, ai the necessity for showing an un- di&tded front to the foe, have failed tcfmake the Hungarian manufactur- erk recede from their demands for cuStoms separation from Austria. It is ztrue that the resolutions of the Climber of Commerce admit that the tine is not opportune for making such Tremendous change, but in the firm co4vfction is expressed that an inde-. peAdent customs territory is the only NE ofs developing home industries. E4en this statement of the situation w&e too mild for some of the speakers 1n4the debate, who insisted that the seDaration should be pressed forward without delay and petitions sent to the pa9liament to this end.
 With regard to Germany the resolu- ti4 4hs demand that a new, reciprocal cdynmerciai treaty. shall be entered 4nAp which shall pay the utmost pos- sfHe,. regard to the interests of all pafticipantss without excluding for AeiGn nations from the benefits of the dp&cial concessions.