Germany Waits On Congress

Washington, Doe. 17.- in view of the disinolinatton of oongress to take up the sugar schedules of the tariff act and the consequent improbability of any action such as was recommended by the president looking to the repeal of the duty of one-tenth of a cent on sugar produced under the bounty system, the future action of tlie Gemían government is beiug await ed with soine apprehension hcre. The speech of the Germán chancollor in the reichstag In wlüch he made a strongpoint' of the diserimination imposed by the United States toward Germán, is believed to iadicate a strongthening of the pollcy which that government has adopted dlrected to the imposition of severe restriction apon American products sought to be imported into Germany. At present Iiunyon, our minister to Germariy, ie working hard to secure an amelioration of the rigid order of exclusión in the case ot' American cattle, and Secretary Gresham is in almost daily consuitatioli witli the Germán minister hero upon the same subject, as well as upon that of cottonseed oil, which lias just suffered a scvere blow from the increase of the import tai to 200 per cent. - practically exclusive. Up to tfaia lime no appreciable degree of success has attended these efforts of our goverument, the charaoter oL the negotiations appearing to indicate a purpose on the part of the German governmcnt to procrastinnte uutil congress decisively announces its intentions in the matter of the sugar duty. As long as these coaditions obtain oiu govornment is likely to wait patiently, but should tliere be any fresh attacks by the Grormans upon American interests there is good reason to believe that tho admiuistration will have recourse to the retaliation act of 1890, and singling out some Gorman artiule the importation of which into the United States about equals in volume the normal American cattle and meat tnide with Genuany, forbid its importation.