Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1905 — HOPE OF RECIPROCITY [ARTICLE]

HOPE OF RECIPROCITY

Casa of Germany Takes a More Favorable Aspect, Says the Cologne Gazette. « - ■■ '- - BERLIN GOVERNMENT AT WORN Comment on Russia's Action in Opening Her Door to Us—Our Dispute with the Turkish Sultan. » Cologne, Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 12. —The Cologne Gazette, in an inspired dispatch from Berlin, corrects a report cabled to one of the Berllh newspapers from New York asserting that President Roosevelt had written to Baron Speck von Sternberg, the (serman ambassador at Washington, informing him that the concessions offered .to the United States by Germany were insufficient to induce the United States government to make a commercial treaty with Germany, because the United States would be giving up more than it would receive. The paper denies that any such letter has been written, or that Germany has already made specific otters to the government at Washington. Germany Is Collecting Data. The German authorities, the dispatch goes on to say, are working assiduously upon the preliminary preparations for treaty negotiations. Data regarding the wishes of interested parties are being collected, and commissioners from several of the imperial Prussian ministries will soon begin work on this material., The authorities will then decide definitely as to what position they will take in the forthcoming negotiations. Satisfactory Treaty Imposed. In conclusion the dispatch says: “In view of the extraordinary Importance which German-American trade rela tldlhs have for the business of the nations living on a friendly footing with each other one may reckon with confidence upon success in the making of a treaty which will form the basis of amicable trade relations between Germany and the United States for many years.” BIG TRADE WILL SURE FOLLOW Russia’s Removal of High Duties Will Be Good for Our Products. Washington, Sept 12. —The state department has not yet been informed officially of the action of the Russian government in revoking the uknse imposing maximum tariff rates on certain United StalSArticles of import. Ever since last spring Ambassador Meyer, acting under instructions of the department, has been trying to secure a removal of these restrictions on our trade, which have been very disastrous. Many important staple exports which were being fairly driven out of the Russian market by the competition of German and English machinery. favored by the minimum tariff rates, are now expected to have an enormous sale, not only in Russian proper but in Siberia. It is understood that Secretary Shaw will recommend to the next congress legislation calculated to remove some of the severest features of the existing tariff laws providing for the imposition of a countervailing duty on boun-ty-aided sugar, the application of which by Secretary Gage in 1901 caused the retaliatory action by Rnssia embodied in the ukase directed against our machinery. It is learned that Switzerland, too. which has imposed maximum .rates on United States products, is about to voluntarily extinguish them and allow United States exporters the benefits of the minimum tariff rates. THAT NATURALIZATION DISPUTE Point Reached with Turkey Where Something Will Have to Give Way. Washington. Sept. 12. Minister Leishman’s reports to the state department indicate that the Turkish government is disposed to maintain strongly its position that the naturalized Armenian who has been sentenced to death for murder at Stamboul shall be treated as a Turkish subject and cannot be allowed the privileges of a United States citizen. The minister Is continuing .his efforts in behalf of Vartanian. The Turkish government has so far not formally proposed the settlement of this issue by arbitration, and it appears that Lelshman would be obliged to decline any such proposal. The United States law as to citizenship is different from that of any .of the European countries, which almost uniformly require that their assent shall be secured to the naturalization abroad of their subjects, so that it would probably be impossible to secure an arbitral court that would not be obliged to hold that international law was adverse to the position of the United States. Korea in Typhoon’s Grasp. Seoul, Sept. 14. —Three storms which attained the velocity of a typhoon, have swept Korea. The town of Gensan is flooded, and at Seoul many people have been drowned and buildings destroyed. The train service has been Interrupted. Isolation of German Ships. Madrid, Sept. 14. — The Spanish oort officials have been ordered to isolate ships coming from Hamburg and Antwerp and to adopt precautionary measures against their crews and merchandise.