Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-24

government, would sbdicate for .
month, or take an extended vacation
while the country was In danger.
Won Scholze's resignation from the
ministry of the marine has finally
been accepted. Prussia has now lost
within q month her two ablest cabi.
net officers. Ksmeke's retirement
from the war Office removed as great
a soldier from the German admins
tration as Sherman's retirement from
the American army. 1t was to Won
Kameke, next to Won Moltke, the
Germans owed their clockwork like
evolutions Of Its armies from the con.
centration In Germany to the disper.
sion after the war. His inconspicuous
genius was the motor that led the
Princes Fritz and Carl to the vic.
tories which their armies won. 1t
was the knowledge of this which made
Won Kameke detested,to these royal
puppets. His presence In the wal
department was a perpetual reminder
to the line and staff that the princes
we're mere fgurehesds,- and 1t Is to
lessen this that the brilliant soldier is
now forced to retirs.
Prince Bismarck having extracted
all the material guarantees for liberals
and ultramontanes needed to Identify
them with his policy, now cody In
forms the latter that he does not pro.
pose to consummate his part Of the
agreement. That Is to say, in order
to consolidate q majority ir the
chamber, he agreed to grant the de.
mands Of the church party. Under
this agreement, his projects were
cordially supported by Sch e aborst
and the clericsls. The liberals, though
numerically superior to the separate
groups of reactionaries and tories,
were not equal to both combined.
Bismarck pushed his economic and
military schemes through, meanwhile
amusing his new allies by the formal
re. establishment Of relations with the
vatican. Now, however, that all the
material assistance the clericals can
give Is at the end, the prince, true to
his habitual methods, turns calmly
and throws his allies into confusion by
acknowledging his purpose of con.
siderlng the promised concessions be-
fore granting them. The Falk laws,
therefore, remain on the books, with
only such slight notifications as could
be granted by the ministers without
the medium of legislation.
Rome and Paris have given two ut.
terances whose meaning will be differ
emily construed In different states.
Italy announces that If she IL not for
mally one of the Kaiserbund, it Is not
because she has been repealed. Her
relations with Austria are serene and
her future In all existing alliances as.
sured. France defines her purpose to
keep all she has and confirm her CON-
quests In China, by the occupation of
such points of vantage as seem essen.
tisl to the maintenance of her control
of Tonquin and Cochin China. On
the ve1ed subject of Madagascar, how
ever. nothing Is divulged, and, as
England is listening for information
on that point, perhaps the situation
may be called e%quivocal.
The latest South American advlces
indicate more systematic efforts In
Peru to secure the establishment of
peace. Lima will probably be the
principal support of the movement,
though 1t Is at present confined to the
northern provinces. The Chilisns,
however, can easily bring the coast
cities into the move by promising TO
evacute them, and are evidently con.
~templating that measure. Meantime,
their controversy with the Argentine
republic has resulted In q collision be.
tween troops on the border, 70 1t Is
not unlikely the war party at Santa.
60 may have further complications to
amuse them. In Ecuador the dicta.
tor, Veintsmilla, remains shut up In
Guayaquil, unable to move or even to
restrain the excuses of his own
troops, who have managed to get him
into trouble with England and Italy
by plundering trading vessels. The
revolutionists hold almost the whole
country.