Show GERMANY S MEAT BILL Important Inspection Measure Prepared Pre-pared By the Bundesrath + NEW SCHEME PROPOSED MEAT INSPECTION AT AMERICAN AMERI-CAN PACKING HOUSES + Relations Between Germany and the United States Discussed Americans Ameri-cans Had Reason to Doubt Germanys Ger-manys Neutrality Dissensions In the Cabinet American Pardoned Copyright 1S33 by tha Associated Press Berlin Feb lSThe meat Inspection bill prepared by the bundesrath on Feb 16 provides for an expert Inspection inland in-land before and after slaughtering cattle cat-tle lugs sheep goats and horses excepting ex-cepting what are killed for domestic consumption This Is regarded as only an agrarian compromise The bill contains con-tains many details of home inspection I not only excludes meat but meat of insufficient nutritive value Foreign meats are subject to a single inspection Inspec-tion but this doe not forbid an addition ad-dition inspection by the separate states for special reasons suon as suspicion that meat has deteriorated since the date of its inspection In any case however foreign meats must be treated the same as domestic meats The importation im-portation of foreign meats Is restricted to certain ports and frontier stations in order to facilitate inspection the result re-sult of which must be made known in each caso in a uniform manner The bill is considered to provide the I minimum meat inspection required throughout the empire leaving to the separate states the question of adding other features besides what are > contained con-tained in the imperial bill The measure has now gone to the relchstag where it Is certain to lead to stormy debateei The center being the dominant facto will propose an amendment to the effect that Germany appoint a corps of its own to go to Chicago Kansas City and other great meat exporting centers these Inspectors t examine all meats destined for Germany many and issue certificates which will be accepted as conclusive by the home government The Deutsche Zeitung publishes a long editorial article in the course of which it says GermanAmerican relations are ditlicult to handle American agriculture agri-culture and German Industry must export ex-port and American industry and German Ger-man agriculture need tariff protection Thus arise most important economic differences The American desire for expansion and tho German need of expansion pansion produce new frictions yet neither an economic nor a political rupture rup-ture will be in the interest of either nation the The Frankfort Zcitung reviewing proceedings In the reichstag says I must be admitted that opinion in the United States has unfortunately had many reasons to doubt German neutrality neutral-ity Wo pointed out upon a former occasion oc-casion the needlessness of sending four German menofwar t Manila to protect pro-tect German interests Other interested interest-ed powers deemed one vessel l enough And then the larger part of the press the semiofficial newspapers included gave expression to their sympathy for the brave and severely tried Spanish people which was necessarily offensive to the Americans SILENCE CONCERNING SAMOA Much surprise is expressed in the press at the fat thM 1the minister c1 1 foreign affairs during tho debates did not mention Samoa A high foreign official however said to the correspondent I corre-spondent of the Associated Press This was solely due to the fact that an agreement had been reached between the three interested governments to refrain re-frain from important public utterance on the subject until full detailedreport had been received In the meanwhile it may be said that we have given you what news we have received This Is rather < contrary to the custom of the Gorman foreign office and was done t avoid misunderstandings here and in Amorica We on this side indeed have been much more communicative on the Samoan trouble than Washington rather to ou astonishment CABINET DISCORD The discord within the German and I Prussian cabinets has grown more I acute There is no longer any doubt I that the three outspokerly agrarian members of the Prussian cabinet Baron von HammerstelnLexten the minister of agriculture Baron vonder Recke yonder yon-der Horst the Prussian minister of the interior and Count von Posadowsky Wehner the secretary of state for the interior are openly at war with the rest of their colleagues During the past fortnight they have given ample evidence thereof in public speeches in some cases flatly contradicting previous I previ-ous statements of Baron ron Bulow Baron von Thielmann secretary of the imperial treasury and Dr Bosse minister min-ister of instruction and other ministers minis-ters I is not yet plain how it will all end with the retirement of one faction fac-tion or with a fresh compromise Some of the newspapers predict the retirement I retire-ment of the three agrarians Baron von Bulow it is understood continues to enjoy the full confidence of the emperor who holds that the foreign for-eign office in this must be allowed to predominate at any rate for the time being in view of the important and delicate del-icate negotiations whichore proceeding with several of the powers especially with the United Statr AMERICAN PETROLEUM The officials of the American embassy have made representations to the German Ger-man government in behalf of American petroleum interests About a year ago the German government announced that there were grave dangers of an American monopoly in Germany and i I that the government therefore would facilitate the import of Russian petroleum petro-leum Since then the Prussian state railroads have begun to use exclusively Russian petroleum Moreover by loreoer a recent re-cent administrative measure the Hash test has been raised in Prussia and other German states which amounts to virtual discrimination against the American oil The American embassy took exception to these measures but it was fruitless The German newspapers newspa-pers now assert that the Standard Oil company and the Russian companies have come to an arrangement and that the government will shortly be inter pellated regarding steps to be taken to counteract the threatened revival of the monopoly Emperor William has pardoned Henry Tiedemann of New York a GermanAmerican who deserted from the Prussian army in 1SSO and went to the United States where he became naturalized and built up a prosperous business In New York Recently he was arrested while on a visit to his relatives in Germany and was courtmartialed and sentenced to several years imprisonment impris-onment although the offense was committed com-mitted before he went to America and he therefore was not amenable to the treaty provisions The American embassy em-bassy however made representations with a happy result The emperor this week ordered from Begas the sculptor a heroic statue of William I with Prince Bismarck and Marshal von Moltke on either side of him to complete the collection of the Honenzollern monarchs In the Siegos AlI near the reichstag Prince Albert his majestys third son is to enter the German navy in the spring He will go on board the training train-ing ship Charlotte which will undertake under-take a cruise along the north African coast Hoyt Sherman and his daughter Mrs Wyborg have been spending the winter win-ter in Berlin Mrs Wyborg has a standing invitation to visit the Inviation empress em-press last year who showed her much attention |