EUROPEAN CUSTOMS TARIFFS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

EUROPEAN CUSTOMS TARIFFS.

CABLE NEWS.

LEGISLATION IN GERMANY AND

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyiig-ht.

(Received January 18th, 4.45 p.m.)

BERLIN, January 17.

Despite the resistance of Count Yon Poeadowsky-Wehner, the German Minister for the Interior, and hife promise that -reater care would , be taken in connection with the "most favoured nation" claawe ih© Reiobutag by 141 votes to 67 recommended tariff treaties instead of the mos' favoured nation treatment. Count Herbert Bismarck said the resolution was intended to secure better commer <:ial relations between the United States and Germany. The lamb-like patience of tlie 'atter was exhausted. Germany was entitled to emphasise the fact that she did not intend to be "taken in " a second time. YLr-XNA, January IV. Ooloman die Sze'l, President of the Hungarian Ministry was applaucied on detailing that the new " Augsleidh " would mean the early conversion of State notes into gold and the establishment of a Customs taritt common to Austria and Hungary, embodying higher duties to correspond with thost of Germany. In this way, he said, a balance would be established between the protection of Austrian industry and the protected condition of Hungarian agriculture. M. Swll added that the tariff would be a defensive weapon in the negotiation of treaties. A similar statement by Herr Yon Koerber in the Austrian Reichsrath was less favourably received.