Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-20
TAKES THE OATH.
The Royal Message Read to the Two
Houses Of The Prussian National
COngress-BismRTck Speaks
Serious Reports CONCERNING the Emperor
RFed6Fick's Oonuuion-Big SNOW
storm In N0riheTn Europe
Germ any.
FREDERICK TO THE LANDrAa.


WAS read in tue Plussiau Landtag in
united session to-day. Il is couatsr-
signed by all the ministers. 1t says
awe, Frederick, By the grace of God
King Of Ptussis, hereby proclaim and
make known that it having pleased God
after the demise Of the Emperor and King
William, our much beloved fs.her, to call
US TO the throne, We here with send the
Laudtag our greeting The sentiments
And Purposes with which we
enter on cur government and the
principles o1 which we would
exercise our royal Office have been pro-
claimed by US to our faithful people
Walking in the paths of our glorious
father va shall kn W no other aim of our
striving than the happiness and welfare Of
the fatheTland. By conscientiously OBJ
serving the constitution fully, guarding
all the prerogssives Of the crown and
Loyalty cooperating with the national
representation, we hope with Gods help
to attsin this oci c., which is the hEppi-
6 Ct Jur country"
The condition Of his health prevents
I'm from tskiI g the oath pers )Dslly.
Desiring to declare without delay his
position regarding the constitutional laws,
although this could admit Of no doubt, he
now sOlembly under iAkes to adhere to the
constitution firmly aOd ilviolaoIy, aud
to rule in confOr mity with the laws. The
sitting was invested with unusual inter-
est, and the galleries were oVeIf1 owed
with visitors. AS coon as the men,
Oers hsd assembled Prince Bismarck,
accompanied by all the ministers
Of state entered the hail and Rad the
message. When the Chancellor hsd
ceased reading Duke Won RXtibor, presl-
dent Of the Up er House, said that 1t was
not within his power to say how each
house would reply TO the message. He
would now simply ask the assemolage to
mark the Kiog's faithful attachment and
devotion, Hod unite 10 the cry of "iong
live King Frederick" ....
The cheer WAS tn ice repeated, and the
Diet forth with adjourned.
FREDERICK To THE REICHsTAG.
BERLIN, MA'ca l9.-The Emperor's |
msssog' to thu R-ichsrsg was IS follows ::
"We, Fred rick by the grace of Goo, |
vi Germany, King Of Prussis, |
ETC., p oclaim that with the demise OF !
our loved father ugder G Id's inscruta-
Bile will the dignity Of the Prussian crowd |
has deyolved upon US sna We have taken |
upon ourselves the rights and duties |
oOunl up herewith. We are resolved to |
keep inviOla0l4 and firmly uphold |
the imperial constitution and |
in this sense TO respect end |
g lard the constitutional rights of
sne individual federal states and the
RaichstGg., Fully conscious Of our ex-
sIted task Is will, sfter the example of
GA: ever-rem embered frther, always be
our endeavIr, ia conjunction with the
princes and free toW0s of the federation,
8pd with the constitutional cooperation
Of the R-iChstaG, to shield justice, free
dom Ard order throughout ehe fAGherlsnd,
safeguard the honor of the empire, main
ain peace at home and abroad and foster
he welfare Of the people.
By the unanimous readiness with
which the Rsichstsg agrees to
proposals to strengthen the defensive
power Of the FAlneTland in order to
assume the secuuIy OF The empire, the
ate Emperor lad IN the last days of his
lie rel jic.d. He WAS not longer per-
nitted to express his thanks to the
ReichstSg. All the more therefore do we
EEL the need OF transmitting to the
3 3ichstsg this legacy Of the imperial
master who is now resting With God. We
express thanks in recognition of The pa
,riUtIsm il has TINA and again shown.
Trusting confidently to the devotion and
led love for the Fathsrl1nd of the whole
sople ana the peoples representatives,
ne place the empires fortunes in Coos
lands. G ven at Cnarlottenburg, March
5. 1888 CSigned FREDsRcK
IGuuutersIgned. BISMARCK.
The message was read by Rerdo,f,
resident of the Rzichstsg, who IT uested
he permission of tue House to submit to
: tomorrow tie draft Of an
address, In reply TO the message,
Expressing devotion to the EDper,r.
This request was gran ed. Herr ,RIes-
loIf then announced that he with the
Of the House, had In the !
ISme OF the r ichstsg asked for audi noes
With the Emperor ana Empress, the En-
'ress Augusta, and the Crown Prince and G
JroWn Princess, which would shortly be
,rGnted. He then expressed amid bursts
4 applause, the thanks of the H use for
he resolutions of sympathy witt Ger c
many, passed by the foreign Parliaments. I
Then Prince Bismarck rising said; II c
lords me great satisfaction il l am per- /
nitted To consider myself charged by the |
House 10 commun c1le the thanks of the
leichstGg 30 THESE friendly governments
whose pArliADents have expressed sym.
,Gthy with the grief surrounding us
,uch expressions have come not only l
rom our countrymen in all parts Of the ,
Vcri5, One latest reports being from a
ST Germen colony in CJres), ,,
mt from ali quarters Ot )
he globe, mostly accompanied by !
equest to lay wreaths and psims On the
lnperor's tomb. Such widespread SYM :
,sthy on the occasion Of the death OF
Cvereign has never yet been rec 'rded
History tells US of the disappearance Of
.rsat men Of nobility. The death Of Louis
V. caused violent shock, but that
yresths and palms from neigbboring peo- /
lie, and from people st the anupodes s
ould be l.id at the tomb of /
Iecessed monarch Is unprecedented. No c
monarch ever before WAS so respected as c
o cause all nations OF the earth to bring q
O his grave signs Of sorrow. APP
'lause. Regarding the special task,
Iesire ~ undertake tfe expression OF our q
ratitude cannot be addressed to all the
tstes of the world. The communica-
ions received from our nearer neighbors s
re especially s'mps hetic, for instance,
hose from Austria, Italy, Portugal, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Den !.
mark. The hrmer relations Of the LAST
mentioned country TO Germany must have I
wakened SD recollections. The great
pure iust gone had erch an influence