People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — GERMANY STRIKING BACK. [ARTICLE]

GERMANY STRIKING BACK.

Discrimination Against Her Sugar la Met by Higher Tax on Cotton Oil. Washington, May 9. —The secretary of state has received a dispatch from the United States ambassador at Berlin stating that the bundesrath has recommended the tariff on imported cotton oil be raised from 4 to 10 marks per 100 kilogrammes, and that the matter is to come before the reiclistag. It is said that owing to the fact that the latter body is soon to adjouru the measure will not likely be adopted at the present session. It is learned that by far the greater part of the cotton oil imported into Germany comes from the United States.