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GERMANY. 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. 



most-favored-nation treatment to Germany when 

 the tariff war between the two countries came 

 to an end in 1896. A blow was aimed at Ameri- 

 can trade by the addition of an amendment to 

 a meat-inspection bill, prohibiting the importa- 

 tion of prepared meat, such as sausages, canned 

 meat, and the like, and only permitting fresh 

 meat to be brought into Germany in the form 

 of whole carcasses. The avowed object of these 

 regulations was to keep out all meat which the 

 inspectors at the customhouse could not guar- 

 antee to be free from taint or disease. This and 

 other measures called sanitary, such as the ex- 

 clusion of American fruits, seemed to have been 

 prompted in some degree by the Agrarian pro- 

 tectionists, and to have something of a retalia- 

 tory character also and to be connected with 

 the' controversy raised by Germany over some 

 of the schedules of the Dmgley tariff, the sugar 

 duties, and tonnage dues. A commercial con- 

 vention on the most-favored-nation treatment 

 granted to Great Britain and to British colonies 

 pending the negotiation of a new commercial 

 treaty lapsed on July 30, 1899, but was extended 

 for another twelve month, still with the exclu- 

 sion of Canada, which has adopted a tariff giv- 

 ing preferential treatment to Great Britain, the 

 purpose for which the Anglo-German treaty of 

 18G5 was denounced by Great Britain. 



When the Reichstag reassembled in November 

 the Government brought forward its new pro- 

 gramme of construction, by which the German 

 navy is to be nearly doubled. The sixennate act 

 passed in 1897 fixed the annual rate of expendi- 

 ture at 00,000,000 marks for six years, and pre- 

 scribed that during the last three years of the 

 period construction should be reduced to one 

 ship a year. The new bill proposed to increase 

 the annual rate of expenditure to 85,000,000 

 marks a year for the remainder of the sixennate, 

 and to make the war fleet stronger in 1903 by 

 six ships than the programme of 1897 contem- 

 plated. For fourteen years after the termination 

 of the sixennate it is proposed to construct from 

 three to three and a half powerful war ships a 

 year, giving the navy in 1917 an addition of 54 

 to 63 battle ships and armored cruisers. 



The protracted contest over the succession to 

 the throne of Lippe-Detmold was settled by a 

 decision given by the Federal Council on Jan. 5, 

 1899, which was really a compromise. The matter 

 was first referred to a court of arbitration, pre- 

 sided over by the King of Saxony, which rendered 

 a decision that ousted from the regency of the 

 principality the Emperor's brother-in-law, Prince 

 Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, upon whom the posi- 

 tion had been conferred with the sanction of the 

 Lippe-Detmold Diet. Graf Ernst of Lippe-Buster- 

 feld was made regent, and the powerful friends 

 of the prince whom he supplanted acquiesced in 

 the decision, though with bad grace. The Em- 

 peror having denied him the military honors cus- 

 tomarily paid to the head of a German princi- 

 pality, he laid a protest before the sovereign 

 prince of the German Empire. At the same time 

 his opponents contested the right of his children 

 to succeed to the throne on the ground that their 

 mother was not of princely rank. The question 

 of military honors the Federal .Council did not 

 decide at all, and this tribunal^ while affirming 

 its competence, refrained from pronouncing judg- 

 ment in the matter of the contested succession. 



The succession to the duchy of Saxe-Coburg 

 and Gotha was renounced by the Duke of Con- 

 naught in favor of the Duke of Albany, for whom 

 the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was ap- 

 pointed regent. 



GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. The following 

 list comprises the most notable gifts and be- 

 quests for public purposes of $5,000 each and up- 

 ward in amount or value that were made, became 

 operative, or were completed in the United States 

 in 1899. It excludes the ordinary denominational 

 contributions for educational and benevolent pur- 

 poses, all State and municipal appropriations to 

 public and sectarian institutions, and the grants 

 of Congress for various measures of relief. The 

 known value of the gifts and bequests here enu- 

 merated exceeds $62,750,000 without a doubt the 

 largest amount ever devoted to philanthropic pur- 

 poses, as individual offerings, in any country in 

 one year. Many gifts and bequests of less than 

 $5,000, the real but unreported value of numer- 

 ous educational buildings and other undertak- 

 ings, the money contributed by our citizens for 

 the relief of suffering caused by the tornado in 

 Puerto Rico, the spontaneous offerings of Ameri- 

 can women to provide and equip the hospital ship 

 Maine for the British military service in the 

 South African war all these would probably in- 

 crease the total by at least $3,000,000, and yield 

 an aggregate of nearly $66,000,000. The amount 

 here accounted for under the necessary restric- 

 tions, however, is a grand evidence of the spirit 

 of helpfulness and sympathy that pervades Ameri- 

 can citizenship. 



Albright, John J., Buffalo, N. Y., gift to the 

 Botanical Garden of that city, a collection of 

 rare palms and tropical plants, valued at $40,000, 

 and two conservatories constructed mainly of 

 steel and glass. 



Allen, Dudley P., and sister, Mrs. Solon Sev- 

 erance, Cleveland, Ohio, joint gift to Oberlin 

 College, real estate valued at $7,000. 



Almy, James P., Salem, Mass., bequests to 

 the Young Men's Christian Association of Salem 

 and Boston University each $5,000; conditionally 

 to the latter, $20,000. 



American Bible Society, gift from friend, 

 name withheld, $10,000. 



American Board of Commissioners for For- 

 eign Missions, gift from anonymous friend, 

 $10,000. 



Ames, Maria E., Concord, Mass., bequests to 

 the American Board, Massachusetts Bible Society, 

 American Missionary Association, Congregational 

 Sunday School and Publishing Society, Congre- 

 gational Church Building Society, American Sun- 

 day School Union, Massachusetts Home Mission 

 Society, and Massachusetts Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals, an aggregate of 

 $26,000, and to the foregoing, with two exceptions, 

 the residue of her estate. 



Andrews, Wallace C., New York, bequest for 

 establishment of an institution in Ohio for the 

 free education of girls, half of his estate of more 

 than $1,000,000. 



Appleton, J. H., Springfield, Mass., gifts to the 

 Public Library building fund and two local hos- 

 pitals, each $5,000. 



Appley, Mary Effluye, Honesdale, Pa., be- 

 quest to Lafayette College for scholarships for 

 students for the ministry or mechanical profes- 

 sions, $30,000. 



Armour, George A., New York, gift to Prince- 

 ton University, for classical section of new libra- 

 ry, $10,000. 



Armour, Herman O., New York, gift to Whit- 

 worth College, at Sumner, in the State of Wash- 

 ington, real and personal property aggregating 

 in value $20,000. 



Armour, Philip D., Chicago, gift to endow- 

 ment fund of Armour Institute, $750,000, mak- 

 ing total gift to the institute $2,250,000. 



