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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 128.
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Courted Jnto Court
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— yf/ario VJresslor and Jfohn tV. Jctco
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HELPS THE TRUST
Glucose Combine Given a Practical
Monopoly
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—The glucose trust
will be strengthened by the opinion of
Judges Jenkins and Showalter in the
United States circuit court of appeals to
day sustaining Its patents. The effect
of the decision, if accepted In other dis
tricts, will give the glucose trust a mon
opoly of the manufacture of glucose
syrups. At least, the decision, being a
law ln the circuit composed of the states
of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, will
drive out much competition. Heavy
damages are alleged In the bill filed, ant!
upon which the patent Is now sustained
$1,000,000 being the amount asked for
The suit was brought by the Chicago
Sugar Refining company, against the
Charles Pope Glucose company. Tht
decision of the court of appeals is a re
versal of the decision of Judge Grosscup
a year ago. Judge Grosscup held thai
there was no novelty in the patent. II
was simply the adaptation of an old pro
cess to new purposes, and as such Is nol
patentable. For this reason. Judge
Grosscup refused to grant a perpetual
Injunction In the case. Judges Jenklni
and Showalter now hold that there wat
an Infringement of the process patent as
they believe the one used prior to that
time was entirely different from the one
used by the complainants. The process
covered by the decision Is said to be the
only one by which glucose can be ex
tracted from corn.
EDITOR FITCH
Charged With Bigamy and Claims
a Divorce
EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 4.—(Special to
The Herald.) J. B. Fitch, editor of the
Evening Tribune of this city, was ar
rested today on the charge of bigamy.
A woman from Los Angeles, Cal., calling
herself Anita Pitch, is suing for a di
vorce from J. B. Fitch, who has a wife
and family here, and the Los Angeles
divorce led to the charge of bigamy be
ing preferred against Mr. Fitch, who
asserts positively that he was duly di
vorced from his California wife and that
he Is being persecuted.
WELBURN'S SHORTAGE
Suits Will Be Brought to Collect the
Amount
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4.—Suit will
be brought next week against the bonds
men of ex-Collector Welburn to recover
for the government the money squan
dered by Cashier Norton, who commit
ted suicide after he had embezzled about
$42,000.
| The whereabouts of Welburn are still
j unknown, although a deputy United
1 States marshal has gone to Texas for
| him with a warrant for his arrest on the
Indictment found by the United States
grand jury against him last Tuesday.
I Special Agent Thrasher has left the
1 city, ostensibly to visit Los Angeles on
department business, but It is believed
that he has gone on, a hunt for the col
lector.
American Horses in Disfavor
nn,tiuiN, reo. 4.—Baron Yon Hlmmer
stein-Loxten, the Minister of Agricul
ture, at today's session of the Prussian j
Diet, declared that American horses de
veloped Influenza after importing. He
added: "If the importations Increase,
we shall certainly be forced to adopt a
suitable quarantine in order to protect,
ourselves." [
THE HERALD
LINDSAY
RESENTS
The Action of Kentucky's
Legislature
HE AFFIRMS HIS DEMOCRACY
PAUSES TO SURRENDER HIS
COMMISSION
Private Pension Bills Occupy the At
tention of the House—lnsigni
ficant Business Done
Associated Press Special Wire
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Speaking to
a question of personal privilege in the
Henate today, Lindsay, Democrat, of
Kentucky, commented sharply on the
motives of the authors nnd promoters of
the resolution recently passed by the
legislature demanding his resignation ns
senator. Lindsay, after defining his
position on the financial question, made
It clear that he was the representative
of the whole people of Kentucky and not
in any sense the agent of the Kentucky
legislature. Above all he was, he said,
a senator for the whole American people,
and as such would perform his duty and
cast his vote In accordance with his con
victions and with the dictates of his
conscience
No business of importance was trans
acted in the brief open session. After tint
executive session of three hours the
senate adjourned until Monday.
A bill providing for the erection of a
public building at Beaumont, Tex., at a
cost not to exceed $100,000, was passed.
Mr. Piatt (New York) offered .1 reso
lution which was referred to the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, directing the
Secretary of War.to return to the Sev
enth Regiment Artillery (formerly the
113 th New York V. I.) the Hags ot the
regiment. >
Mr. Lindsay then took the floor to
speak on the resolution of the Kentucky
Legislature, asking him to resign. He
had the resolution read at the clerk's
desk and then said:
"While this professes to request my
resignation, It is couched In language
which disregards the ordinary umenitles
of life and is In effect a demand that I
shall surrender my placu in order to
create v vacancy and thus make room
here for gome one holding political views
ln harmony with the author and promo
ters of the resolution. I desire to pro
teat against this usurpation of ungrant
ed power, and I propose to give it a
place on the records of the Senate and
to make sue'h comments as I deem nec
essary and proper under the circum
stances.
"It Is to be observed that in the ar
raignment which precedes the resolution
there is no charge that I have ever dis
obeyed the expressed will of the people
of Kentucky; no intimation that I have
ever given a vote which did not reflect
the views of my constituents or that I
have at any time failed to look after
their interests, or have been wanting in
any duty owing to them or to the coun
try, or that I am now opposing legisla
tion which the majority of the people of
Kentucky regard as essential to the pub
lic welfare, or that my personal conduct,
at any time or in any respect, has been
to the slightest degree incompatible
with the high position of an American
Senator.
"The substance of the complaint Is
that I am opposed to the free and un
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, and that I opposed the election
of the nominees of the lnte Chicago con
vention, and. by so doing, betrayed the
trust reposed ln me by my constituents.
My constituency is made up of the peo
ple of Kentucky, and that people voted
against those nominees, and twelve out
of thirteen of the electoral votes were
registered against them."
The Senator reviewed his votes against
silver in the extra session in 189.1, which
repeuled the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law, and continued:
"In the discussion of the bill I de
clared that I would vote for no amend
ment which merely experimented with
a change of ratio or that did not provide
reasonable safeguards to insure the
maintenance of the parity of gold and
silver dollars
"Those votes and that declaration
were known to all the intelligent peo
ple of the State of Kentucky. In the
month following the adjournment of
this extra session, the General Assem
bly, charged with the duty of selecting
my successor, was chosen. It convened
in January, 18114. My name was the only
one presented to the Democratic caucus,
and when the election came to be held
I received the votes of every Democratic
member present.
"I stand today precisely where I stood
when I received the unanimous Indorse
ment of the Democrats in Kentucky.
If those who were in accord with me
four years ago are not so today. It is
because they have changed their opin
ions, whilst I have remained steadfast.
I criticize no one for changing his opin
ions, but I protest against being de
nounced as a betrayer of my trust be
cause my views remain unchanged.
"I deny the right of self-seeking politi
cal changelings, who were with me in
opposition to free silver when free coin
age was unpopular and are against me
now when free coinage seems to meat
Democratic approval in Kentucky, to
sit in judgment on my Democracy, or
to call in question my fealty to the con
stituency I represent. I will remind
those who voted for the resolution that
I am not the mere agent of the Ken
tucky Legislature. I do not exercise my
Senatorial duties subject to legislation,
nor hold my place at the Legislative
will. I represent, not merely a party or
a faction, but all the people of Ken
tucky. My term of service is fixed by
the Constitution of the United States.
LOS ANGELES, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, JB9B
It cannot be abridged by the action of
the Kentucky Legislature, and an at
tempt by certain members of that body
to abridge It is the assertion of it right
which does not exist, and could not ex
ist without imperiling the Independence
of this great branch of the Federal Leg
islature. I am a Senator from Ken
tucky, but I am also a Senator of the
United States.
"ln questions local to Kentucky I am
always ready to serve her Interests to
the best of my ability, consistent with
the obligations of honesty and fair deal
ing. When great public Interests, affect
ing alike every portion of the Union, are
to be acted upon, they are to be consid
ered from the standpoint of the broad
est patriotism, and this I propose to
do, no matter who may condemn my
action or who may approve it. There
are occasions when considerations of
local favor and party discipline must
for the time give way, and if a Senator
who acts upon that principle is to be
driven from his place by his State Leg
islature whenever he may contravene
local sentiment or temporary passion
the dignity of the Senate will soon be
v thing of the past.
"A scrupulous regard for the division
of powers between the State and Federal
governments and the careful observance
of the boundary line which separates
those powers is a cardinal doctrine of
Jeffersonian Democracy, yet we have
here the spectacle of a controlling ma
jority of a State Legislature boldly over
stepping that line of demarcation and
in the name of Democracy demanding
that I shall surrender my commission,
because, in their estimation. I have
ceased to be a Democrat. They seem to
be ignorant of the underlying principles
of the Democratic party, or else re
gardless of their obligations to observe
those principles. Their right to im
peach my Democracy of to put me upon
the defense of any record as a Democrat
I utterly and absolutely repudiate.
"This much I have thought it proper
to say, and with these remarks I dismiss
the so-called Legislative request for my
resignation."
At 12:25 on motion of Mr. Davis of
Minnesota, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committe, the Senate went
into executive session.
At 4:40 )>. m. the senate adjourned un
til Monday.
NOMINATIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The Presi
dent today sent to the Senate the name
of Ethan Hitchcock, of Missouri, now
Minister to Russia, to be Ambassador
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia.
Mr. Hitchcock is named as Ambassa
dor under the law authorizing such
rank where foreign countries name Am
bassadors to the United States. Russia
has given notice that it has conferred
this rank on Count Casslnl, her diplo
matic representative in the United
States.
Postmasters —Arizona, John C. Adams,
Phoenix; California, Eva A. Clapp,
Azusa.
CONFIRMATIONS
The senate today confirmed the fol
lowing nominations: To be consuls:
BenJ. Johnson of lowa, at Utilal, Hon
duras: W. B. Sorsby of Mississippi, at
San Juan del Norte. Nicaragua; E. H.
Cheney of New Hampshire, at La Paz,
Mexico; J. E. Rowen of lowa, at Port
Stanley, Falkland Islands.
IN THE HOUSE
Private Pension Bills Slow to Receive
Attention
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—This was
private bill day in the house, but on ac
count of systematic filibustering the pri
vate calendar containing the bills re
ported by the committee on claims was
not reached, the whole day being con
sumed ln passing eighteen of the twenty
four private pension bills favorably
acted upon by the house at the session
last Friday night. During the consid
eration of one of the bils an interesting
discussion of the approaching sale of
the Kansas Pacific, set for February
17th, was precipitated by Mr. Fleming
of Georgia, Democrat, who, with his
Democratic colleagues desired legisla
tion to require the # president to bid the
full amount, debt, principal and interest.
Mr. Powers, chairman of the Pacific
railroad commission, contended that
the real purpose of the opposition was
to compel the government to take the
road and operate it. He said he thought
the administration, which had secured
every dollar owing from the Union Pa
cific could be safely trusted to protect
the government's Interest at the sale of
the Kansas Pacific.
A bill was passed today to amend
the act of January 31, 1885, granting
rights of way through the public domain
for tramways, canals and reservoirs, so
as to grant those rights for cities and
private corporations At present the
rights of way are given only for mining
and irrigatioin purposes.
Mr. Fleming (Dem.) of Oeorgia asked
unanimous consent to set aside next
Monday fo the consideration of the bill
reported by the Pacific Railroad Com
mission, to grant additional powers to
the President in the matter of the sale
of the Kansas Pacific road. The sale
was to take place February 17. he said,
and it was important, if anything was
THE HARBOR APPROPRIATION
A Majority of the Sub-Committee in Favor of Justice
to San Pedro
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—(Special to The Herald.) Represents- ,},
j L tive C. A. Barlow today had interviews with Stephen A. Northway c |.
jt, of Ohio, Thomas C. Mcßae of Arkansas and Joseph D. Sayers of *!,
cj « Texas, of the sub-committee on the sundry civil bill. Chairman
Jj. Cannon of Illinois and W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania, with these
three, form the sub-committee. Barlow is elated at the result of JL
J his interviews with Northway, Mcßae and Sayers. He is satisfied &
j • that each of the three, forming a majority of the sub-committee, JL
d m favor the immediate appropriation of the $400,000 for the com
* * menoement of the work on the breakwater at San Pedro harbor.
J , The Southern California representative tonight regards the proa-
t| < pects as distinctly good. \
(Continued on Page Two.)
AN ARMY OF
FARMERS
To Take Up Homesteads
On Cuban Lands
AMERICAN OWNERS OF LAND
WILL CUT UP HOLDINGS AND
SELL CHEAP
A Colony Scheme in Which Only
Ablebodied Men Will Be
Asked to Take Part
Associated Press Special Wire
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 4.—A
special to the Journal from Aberdeen,
S. D., says:
John Patterson of Minneapolis, who is
well known throughout the northwest,
is working quietly but persistently upon
a scheme to take 100,000 men to Cuba and
land them there on the Fourth of July.
He says he is backed by a syndicate of
Americans who have large land interests
in the islands, and claims these Ameri
cans are anxious to cut up their large
holdings and dispose of small planta
tions to able-bodied men. They require
no cash down and all the money the in
tended purchaser needs is enough to pay
his expenses to Cuba, which, as Patter
son says, will be nominal. He says there
will be enough steamers at New Orleans
July Fourth to carry the 100,000 excur
sionists to Havana und other ports on
the island where they can land. The
company guarantees protection from
Spanish interference from New Orleans
to Cuba, and when the men arrive they
will be such a formidable body that
Spain will not dare to Interfere with (lie
peaceful pursuits the immigrants in
tend to pursue. If an attempt should be
made to interfere, the men will be In
structed to arm themselves and protect
their rights.
The company's agent claims that a
vast amount of money has been lost by
American property owners over there by
the Spaniards not allowing them to work
their plantations. They intend to place
a man on every few acres and if he
stands up for his rights and works the
property he will become the absolute
owner of his plantation in a few yeftrs.
The company guarantees to furnish the
settlers with machinery and arm them
if It becomes necessary. Mr. Patterson
has been very successful In Securing
men.
BLANCO'S FAILURE
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—A dispatch to
the Tribune from Havana says: Gen
eral Blanco has returned from a trip
to the eastern provinces, which, put in
the best possible light, has failed to
come up to the expectations raised in
Madrid. The Sagasta ministry cannot
longer delude itself with the false hope
that the adhesion of a few minor insur
gent chiefs is evidence that the insurrec
tion is disintegrating from within. Its
powers of resistance is shown by the
fact that in such military operations as
have taken place during the last fort
night the advantage has been with the
insurgents. Briefly, the situation,
which by this time must be understood
by the ministry, is that persuasion has
failed to win the insurgents to autonomy
and the army has had no better success.
The intranslgeants have their remedy.
They are not making threatening dem
onstrations against the Captain-Gen-
eral and telling him that the situation
is insupportable and that the only prac
tical solution is for him to go home.
For the present they are contenting
themselves with advising Madrid of
these facts. What action they will take
later in the form of dissatisfaction can
not be foretold.
Though Weyler has many partisans
they don't look tor him to return to Cuba
in command. They realize that the re
call of Blanco would be a confession that
the policy he was sent out to indorse is
a failure. They do not expect that the
Sagasta ministry will confess itself out
of office in this manner. They talk
vaguely that the army must be made
supreme in enforcing peace, as though
the army had not been supreme for
years.
It is the frank judgment of com
petent military judges that the Spanish
troops in Cuba today are in worse con
dition than the insurgents, though both
the strength and the resources of the
latter may be exaggerated. Weyler
failed in his campaign in Santiago.
Pando criticised Weyler, but he has done
no better. In two months the sole
achievement of his forces has been to
rescue the survivors of the garrison of
INDEX
TO THE TELEGRAPH NEWS
Senator White concludes his three
day's speech against the annexation
of Hawaii.
Sir Charles Tupper, Canada's ex
premier advocates keeping Americans
out of the Yukon gold region.
Alger's reindeer sail for America;
the rush to the gold fields grows great
er with every day that passes.
Taking of testimony continued in
the trial of Sheriff Martin, charged
with murder of strikers at Latimer.
Railroads running from Chicago
westward start a war of rates; Lake
Shore road absorbed by the New York
Central.
The day in the senate devoted to
listening to Lindsay's remarks con
cerning the request of his constituents
that he resign; in the house persistent
filibustering prevents business except
the consideration of a half a dozen
private pension bills.
Germany modifies the decree pro
hibiting the importation of American
fruits, but the matter has become so
tangled that nobody knows just how
the matter stands; then action is taken
looking to the prohibition of American
horses, whereat the protectionists at
Washington stand up and howl.
John Patterson, said to be well
known, recruiting an army of 10,000
men to land on Cuban soil on the
Fourth of July, with the intention of
farming lands owned by Americans,
but which have not been worked owing
to conditions prevailing; Blanco's mis
sion to the interior proves a flat failure.
Guinna. That General Luque should be
driven Into Holguin from one direction
and General Linares should seek refuge
in the town from another direction indi
cate a fair degree of activity on the
part of the insurgents in Santiago under
the command of Calixto, Garcia and
Rabi. Genernl Pando has had the extra
ammunition he asked for.
Everything was done that the authori
ties could do for the soldiers. Neverthe
less the sickness Is great. General
Blanco's time at Manzanillo and San
tiago de Cuba was taken up with inspec
tion of the hospitals. As the season ad
vances the fevers will grow worse. The
probability of a successful campaign in
the Santiago de Cuba this year is now
eliminated from the events which might
help to bring the insurrection to an end
and secure the acceptance of autonomy.
This has some importance when the
program of placing greater dependence
on the army, is broadened. As for the
presentados they cannot be magnified
into importance enough to have a pro
nounced Influence of weakening the mil
itary part of the Insurgents. A few offi
cers, some ranking us high as colonels,
do not constitute the backbone of the
insurrection, and the number of follow
ers they have been able to bring ln can
not be said to have lessened materially
its strength.
It is not to be expected that General
Blanco will permit disappointment to be
manifest in bis actions. The Implanta
tion of autonomy will go forward so far
as official proceedings can make it ap
pear to do so. Preparations for the elec
tions will continue in the leisurely man
ner that has heretofore marked them.
The conservatives are charging that the
government, in Its anxiety to prevent the
election of a Congress hostile to auto
nomy, is tampering with the electoral
list. The representatives of the gov
ernment say that it is not true, and if it
were the conservatives would have no
reason for complaint, because they did
the same thing when they were in power.
This is an exact statement. It is also to
be feared that the charge of the conser
vatives that the present lists are tam
pered with is an exact statement. The
authorities do not feel that they can
trust autonomy as a civil policy to the
hands of Its enemies, so they tuke means
to insure the elections resulting favor
ably to the government.
The Marquis Apeztegula continues his
efforts to enlist the younger conserva
tives on the side of a policy of modera
tion and to detach them from the radicals
to the lntransigeants. He does not seem
to make headway.
WARSHIPS' MOVEMENTS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The navy
department has received a telegram from
Captain Converse of the cruiser Mont
gomery, announcing the arrival of that
vessel at Mutanzas. Cuba, yesterday.
Th captain said that he fired a salute,
which was duly responded to by the
Spanish forts: that visits were ex
changed between himself and the local
officials, and that he had been received
with the greatest courtesy. Everything
was unusually quiet at Matanzas, added
Captain Converse.
He will leave the pince in the Mont
gomery tomorrow for Santiago, and his
stay there will be brief.
The Brooklyn, which is bound for a
cruise to the Windward Islands and
thence through the Caribbean sea, wind
ing up at Colon, sailed today from the
New York navy yard for Hampton roads
for coal. She will make her next stop
after leaving Hampton roads at St.
Thomas, and her Itinerary does not car
ry her Into any Cuban port.
The training ship Annapolis has ar
rived at St Croix, and the gunboat Wil
mington has sailed from Trinidad for
Grenada.
It is said at the navy department that
the vessels of the European squadron
will rendezvous at Lisbon ln a short
time.
When Commodore Howell passed
through Washington recently on his way
to take command of the European sta
tion he asked if the navy department ob
jected to his making a northern cruise
with his squadron. He was told that the
ships had been kept In the Mediterran
ean by Admiral Self ridge of his own voli
tion after the subsidence of the disturb
ance resulting from the Turko-Grecian
war, and that the department left the
movement of his ships entirely to him
self. He therefore was granted the per
mission he sought, and announced that
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
WORSE AND
MORE OF IT
Germans Do Not Want
American Horses
THEY ARE WORSE THAN FRUIT
BECAUSE THEY CARRY GERMS
OF INFLUENZA
I '
The Fruit Decree Is Modified Until
Nobody Knows Just What It
Means—Officials Excited
Associated Tress Special Wiro
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—When tha.
calile as to the prospective quarantine ot
American horses was shown to Chair
man Hitt of the house foreign affairs
committee he said this move was clearly
a part of the general movement toward
exclusion shown by the recent action
against American fruit. His colleague
on the foreign affairs committee, Mr.
Adams of Pennsylvania, said the dis
patch suggested that it was time to dis
cover a bacilli in German wines, and It
would be desirable also to determine as
to the sanitary character of the process
of making German sugar sent to the
United States.
Mr. Cousins of lowa, another member
of the foreign affairs committee, said:
-Our state department should give dis
tinct notice that if there is any desire to
stop trade with us this should be done
in a straightforward way, nnd not by
indirectly attacking our products on
sanitary grounds."
Chairman Dingley of the ways and
means committee said this was in line
with the German action on American
fruit. Quarantine was not an absolute
prohibition, however, and it remained to
be seen whether a quarantine so vigor
ous as to be a prohibition would be put ln
force. , ,
The officials of the agricultural depart
ment emphatically discredit the proba
bility of American horses carrying the
Influenza into Germany, and say that if
they do develop It after Importation, it Is
contracted from animals in that country.
The statements of the German minister
of agriculture, Secretary Wilson say*,
are unwarranted.
Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau of ani
mal industry, said: "So far as the de
partment of agriculture is aware, there
is no influenza prevailing in this coun
try. It is a disea.se common to horses,
arid possibly may be present In places of
which we have no information, but this
is improbable. The horses which are
exported are not inspected, but if an
animal has the disease it will recover or
die before the transatlantic journey Is
made. The duration of the disease is
about two weeks."
The growth of the shipments of
American horses to Europe in the past
few years has been enormous. These
shipments in 1897 aggregated in value
$4,763,265. as against $718,607 in 1898. The
value of those sent to Germany in 1597
was $822,250, as compared with $79,950 in
1893.
FRUIT EXCLUSION
' Official Agricultural Reports Furnish
the Desired Excuse
BERLIN. Feb. 4.—The Reiehszanzel
ger this afternoon published the follow
ing: , ,
i The American agricultural depart
i merit's report on the San Jose shield
' louse led to an official inquiry here as to
I the circumstances under which Ameri
can fruits are imported. Professor
Frank, on January 29th, found on Cali-
I furui.a pears arriving at Hamburg, num
erous living, breeding shield lice, ab
solutely identical with the. San Jose
I shield louse. He consequently cx
i pressed the opinion that the home fruit
cultivation was exposed to a grave, ma
terial danger thereby. A conference of
■ the specialists and the report of the Im
i pertal office of health confirmed this view
in every particular. Thus the neces
sity for prompt measures for protection
was fully demonstrated.
The relchzanzelger then describes the
! extraordinary harmfulness of the San
jiise louse, according to publications of
I the Washington agricultural depart-
I ment. and the measures taken in
• America, notably Oregon and British
[ Columbia, and continues:
"It Is thus tho unavoidable duty of tha
government to give efficacious protec
i tion to the home fruit industry from the
danger of disease here."
The Roichszanzelger then gives the
j regulations adopted, and concludes with
pointing out phylloxera as an example
of the danger of not adopting immedlatg
protective measures, while the Colorado
\ bug, it is added, has been kept out by
timely precautions.
ELABORATE BLUNDERING
BERLIN, Feb. 4.—Under the heading,
. "Order, Counter-Order. Disorder." the
■ Tageblatt today describes the bungling
• of Prussia with American fruits, and
asks:
t "Are we really drifting into a fierce
i tariff war with the United States be
[ cause we have petted the Agrarian de
sires?"
I The Vorwaerts publishes an article
r headed "Agrarian Attack on America."
detailing the stupidity which tho dil'fcr
', ent revenue stations display in interpret
, ing the prohibitory decree.
Other Liberal newspapers make sim
ilar comments.
The issuance of the decree was brought
about as follows:
The minister of agriculture, Baron
' yon Hammerstein-Loxten. saw Dr.
; Miquel, the minister of finance and vice
' 1 president of the ministry, on January 30.
' and asked him that th*(decree be issued
■ i forthwith, prohibitingWeolutely the Imr
Iportatlon of all AmeJcijn fruit, freitt