Show PEACE t Mm GERMANY I American Ambassador Testifies to the Kaisers Friendship + RELATIONS ARE CORDIAL + NO PHICTION CONCERNING THE F CON CONCG T pTrrTrPT > TKTK QUESTION Proposed eat Inspection Bill I Just What the Americans Want and Will Be Entirely Financial Fi-nancial Stringency Causes Anxiety Anxi-ety at Berlin Austrias Premier Copyright 1S08 by the Associated Press Berlin Jan HThe United States ambassador Mr Andrew D White said to the correspondent of the Associated sociated Press today for publication Our relations with Germany are thoroughly good and are steadily improving im-proving I look to the proposed meat inspection as a step calculated to help rather than hurt as What thinking men on each side wish to secure is a single inspection which will be valid throughout the empire and supersede the various local inspections which are often prompted by a panic arising from isolated trichinae cases justly or unjustly un-justly attributed to foreign meats We have been laboring to obtain this inspection in-spection for a long time and now have strong hopes of a successful issue There are unreasonabre men on both sides of the Atlantic but we believe that reasonable men here and In America Amer-ica are in the majority and they are more and more understanding the importance im-portance of good relations between the two countries Regarding the question of acquisitions acquisi-tions in the Pacific and elsewhere the feeling of the two governments is ex cellent The German foreign oface shows every desire that this state of things should continue and the German officials in every way work in harmony with us In the Pacific as elsewhere there Is not the slightest cause at present pres-ent for the slightest illfeeling arising out of the ambitions of either pow rand r-and all questions are being steadily better footing placed on r beter rootng The bundesrath considered the mea inspection bill this week andthe favorable favor-able vie taken of the measure by th I American ambassador is contrasted by the fact that the agrarian press this week were severely criticised the bill The Deutsche Tagezeitung commenting comment-ing upon the Cologne Gazettes discussion discus-sion of the bill on Jan 9 when that paper took the ground that the measure meas-ure would be in no way detrimental but raiher advantageous to American meat describes the measures unheard of groveillijg before the United States and predicts that the reichstag will not confirm such a bill The Deutsch Agar Correspondenez which as the organ of the federation of Husbandry recently fiercely attacked attack-ed the scientific attache of the Am rican ri-can embassy for having in the German press disposed of false statements set afloat by that paper and goes even further fur-ther than the Tagezeitung heaping abuse upon those who are responsible for framing the bill and on the measure meas-ure itself declaring it is utterly impossible impos-sible for the reichstag majority to endorse en-dorse some of the essential provisions of the bill especially the one delegating to the bundesrath its own powers of prohibition On the other hand the liberal press joyfully welcomes the moderate provisions of the bill EXPORTS TO AMERICA Official statistics of German exports tq the United States show that they amounted duiing the last quarter in the northern part of Germany excluding the Zittlau consulate to 12503161 cm f pared with 9021947 in 1SDS In the southern half the German exports to I the United States amounted to SSS15 1189 being an increase of S62o539 The j total increase for the past quarter I amounted to about 5000000 mainly 1 due to sugar exports which came to a standstill during the last quarter of 1S97 The total exports for 1S9S however I how-ever show a decrease when compared with those of 1897 This also is mainly traceable to sugar of which from the Brunswick consulate alone the exports I diminished over 2500GOO The semiofficial Berlin Post summarizing sum-marizing Germanys export trade for 1898 says referring to the United I States that excepting in the one item of sugar Germanys exports were not nearly so poor as it was at first feared they would be A strong movement in favor of a protective pro-tective tariff has been set on foot by the hoiticulturists of Germany A meeting of over 1000 of them has addressed ad-dressed a stronglyworded petition to the imperial government reciting their I reasons for demanding protection The minister of the interior Count von Posadovsski Wehner has summoned the president of the organization to furnish him with additional information informa-tion on the subject and there is reason rea-son to bve the government intends to frarie n tariff measure which wil I meet the horticulturists views TRIAL FOR TREASON A sensational high treason trial has been fixed for next month before the suprem court of Leipzig The prisoner prison-er a Pole named Goldhumer claiming to be a dealer in precious stones was arrested at Metz on his arrival there from Paris I is said the evidence collected crectly implicates a number of high and government military officers of-ficers in France Some stir has been created by the fact that the government organs the North uennan Gazette the Kreuz Zei tung and other inspired journals this week have published editorials representing repre-senting that the two years military service system adopted In 1895 has not proved a success The exceptionally large number of officers retired from the Wurtemberg army corps at the instance of the em peror has caused deepseated dissatisfaction dissatis-faction The Wurtemberg local newspapers news-papers point out that there are now 150 retired higher officers many of them under 45 years of age compared with seventyseven in active senice MONEY STRINGENCY There is some anxiety in official circles cir-cles at the exceeding stringency of the German money market which it is feared may endanger the success of the coming German and Prussian loans These loans it Is now semiofficially set forth amount to fa less than 200 000000 marks whIch i was originally expected would be the amount Considerable indignation is evinced L the unfavorable reports emanating from London concerning the economical and financial conditions of Germany and especially the statement that the leading banks recently declined to accept ac-cept Prussian bills for a large amount This statement Is declared to be utter ly untrue an1 calculated to unfavorably unfavor-ably impress the German borrowers with respect to the impending loans The National Zeitung in an Inspired article ponts out that the present financial tightness is solely due to the extraordinary expansion of German industry In-dustry which has absorbed immense quantities of capital adding This led to a rise In the rate of discount dis-count and a slight decline in Prussian and imperial loans I however the financiers allow time for recuperation of capital for which the most favorable favor-able conditions are at hand and if the German financial undertakings abroad are restricted for n short period to a rate of discount which from perfectly natural causes is higher in Germany than In France and Great Britain it will speedily diminish In the meanwhile mean-while there Is no need to hastnn llntn 1YJ1e neer fotn M < Irm Y I tions of loans and there is no reason why the rate of Interest should be raised above the present 3 per cent 1 Facts have cometo the knowledge of i the government showing that the Austrian i Aus-trian premier Count ThunHohenstein for number of months preceding his attack on the German government in j r the reichsrath systematically accumulated accumu-lated every shred of evidence tending to demonstrate that Germany had exceeded ex-ceeded treaty powers in expelling Aus rlan subjects A decree requiring all frontier officials to watch and report such cases was Issued by the Austrian authorities as early as September and the few facts collected were used by the premier most artistically The German foreign office is of the opinion that this alone shows that Count Thun aone Hohonsteln sought to pick a quarrel I with Austrias ally long ag demonstrating demon-strating that he is not a proper person to be at the helm of Austria If the al words lance is to remain more than cI |