People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — EMBARGO IS EXTENDED. [ARTICLE]

EMBARGO IS EXTENDED.

Decree Ag»in»t American Cattle and Reef Now Cover* Every German Port. Berlin, Oct 81.—The prohibition against the landing of American cattle and American dressed meat, announced by a decree of the Hamburg senate Saturday last has been extended to every port of Germany. Interviews with officials of the interior department, the Prussian husbandry department and the German foreign offices would seem to show that the prohibition is of a preventive nature and the action of individual German states. The foreign office officials, for instance, say that the prohibition is no affair of theirs, as the measures adopted are purely administrative and sanitary, and that they strictly belong to each German state. The empire, as such, these officials add, has not taken any steps to prohibit the landing of American cattle or American meat The officials of the interior department say that the importation of cattle from America suffering from Texas fever has been clearly proved, and that the measures taken are purely of a preventive nature, such as each German state is entitled to exercise through its police authority within its own territory. Washington, Oct. 31.—The announcement that the embargo placed upon American cattle by the senate of Hamburg has been extended to the length of an exclusion of American cattle and dressed meat from every part of Germany was received with surprise by department officials. That Texas fever was merely a pretense for enforcing retaliatory measures against the United States because of the discrimination against German interests in the sugar schedule of the Wilson tariff law was the prevalent impression. The German ambassador, however, assured the secretary of state Monday that the measure of exclusion was inspired solely by sanitary reasons and had no political motive behind it. Secretary Morton, who has just returned to the city from a trip abroad, assured Secretary Gresham that the exportation of Texas fever into Germany by American cattle was altogether improbable, if not impossible. The secretary of agriculture expressed surprise at the exclusion of dressed meat, because it is all inspected by competent government officials in this country before shipment. Texas fever, moreover, can be carried only by live cattle. The live cattle exported from this country are also inspected at the ports of shipment to see that they are not diseased. The secretary thinks the damage to be inflicted upon American interests by this action is greatly overestimated, as our exports of meat to Germany are comparatively light. From his observations on his recent trip Secretary Morton is convinced that the exporting of live cattle cannot be made to pay as well as shipping dressed meats. The establishment of increased facilities for shipping meats in cold storage, he thinks, will greatly increase the American business. Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, said the conveyance of Texas fever in dressed meat is impossible.