| Show BLOW AT UNITED D STATES Germany Peremptorily Prohibits the Importation Importa-tion of American Fruit ACT SAID TO BE A TREATY VIOLATION mrlco 1101 t ul DelainedCalI lateral Vernihs 1 the Allcgrd 1 COc tlnlln Fob 2fho Prussian minister minis-ter of finance Dr Miguel Issued a done do-ne estctday which goes Inlo ort Immediately prohibiting the Importation Importa-tion of every kind of American fresh II calls The deelslon has been cent lo all tho German Ports and frontier tUtloiis excepting Ilivirla Saxony and Wnrtcmburg rise tiolled States embartri wa not previously warned and the United States I embassador Mr White sent 1 formal letter to the foreign oleo to Jay Inquiring upon what authority this Inimical step was taken Tile United Stales consul at Hamburg Ham-burg 1 Dr Hugh lltuilrn telegraphs that 11900 barrels of American apples have been forbidden to bo unleaded and that two trains full of American fault havo also been forbidden to cross tile frontier at Fmmerlch which aloe from Hamburg Is I the principal place of entry for American fruit On receipt of this news Mr White ent n second and stronger reron as ire n ce to the foielgn office calling attention at-tention to the evident Mutation of the treaty At the foreign office It was learned that lh Prussian government prohibits pro-hibits admlBklon of Amcrcun fruit on sanitary grounds claiming that California Cali-fornia and other vermin threaten German Ger-man trees and fruit Till SANITARY HKASON MKllH n HANITAI nJASON IH PULTFXT Washington Feb 2 benator Perkins Per-kins of California when shown the above dispatch said the prevention of Importation on sanitary grounds was a Importnlon mere pretext and that It was merely to keep out fruits which competed with German products and the order was no doubt Issued ns 0 retaliation against the United States because of the differential differ-ential tariff on sugar from bountypay lalil ing countries Senator Perkins said ho had no doubt that the United bttttea timid meet this order by retaliation and that I Germany did not want to be a market for our fruits and meats measures 0 could bo taken which would also limit the markets In the United Slates to German products If this country old Senator Mc J inery of Louisiana would only prohibit pro-hibit the Importation of elerman a cutlery and vcollents there scould soon Lo on end oC any olerhnlnoton against American products and according to my way of thinking that la I what should bo done oone Senator Lodsre of the committee on foreign relations declined to say moro TmFnhYttGOrHA14ysettMrmmtn m1lt nY < clear violation of tho treaty Senator Durrom a nC the eommlt on finance thoueht Ihe matter should he 1 thoroughly Iniestigated as he said h had n doubt It would he Ly the executive tho branch ot the government |
