CABLE NEWS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.) GERMANY AND AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 111, 7 November 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEW S. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.) GERMANY AND AMERICA.

COMMERCIAL TREATY NEGOTIATIONS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WASHINGTON, 6th November. Baron Stornburg, German Ambassador at Washington, in proposing a now commercial treaty, said there must be a change in order to avoid a tariff war. He added that Germany was "anxious for a treaty whereby such a war might be avoided and good relations preserved. Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, replied that he earnestly desired to avert trouble, and wished for an opportunity to negotiate a treaty which the Senate would approve. He was doubtful, however, whether they would be aWe to frame such a treaty. He wished to do shown the basis pf negotiations which were likely to be successful, but would not submit to the Senate a treaty which did not moot tho Sonate's views. Mr. Root added that if Baron Sternburg submitted tho basis of a treaty which the Senate was likely to ratify, tariff experts would bo asked to report thereon.