THE TARIFF QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1903, Page 3

THE TARIFF QUESTION.

GKBJiNY'S lambukb patibhce. FXB PRESS ASSOCIATION, Received is, 4.15 p.m. Bkblin, January 17. Despite the resistance ef Couat von Pocadowsky Wehner, German Ministar ef the interior, and hie promise that rs greater care should be taken in connection with the most favoured nation clause, the Reichstag by 141 to 64 recommended tariff treatiei instead of the most favoured trea'mrat. . Count Herbert Bismarck said the resolution was intended to secure better commercial relations with the TJnittd States. Germany's lamb-like patience was exhausted, and she was entitled to emphasise the fact that sbe did not intend to be taken in a second time. Viksna, Januaty 17. Calomw de Sz6ll, President of thi Hungarian Ministry, was applauded white detailing the Augsleich. He ■aid there would ba an early conversion of State notes into gold and the establishment of a customs tariff common to Austria-Hungary and embody iDg higher duti s to corr- sp ;nd wi:h tho<e of Germany, thus the ba'aace would ba established between protection of Austrian industry and the projected condi tion of Hungarian agriculture. Herr Szell added that the tariff would be a defensive weapon in negotiations ef treaties. A similar statement by Ernes'; Yon Koerber, Minister of the Interior, in the Austrian R-hhgrath was less favourably received.