The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-10
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Minister of State Issues a Proclamation
--Bi. marck's Speech in the Reichstag.

--Bi. marck's Speech in the Reichstag.
BERLIN, March 9.-The Stats Anzeger pub
fishes the following proclamation:
Tt has pleased God to call his Majesty the Emperor
and hing our most gracious master from iife after
short illness and after rishly blessed reign. The
whole nation mourns with the royal house the de-
of the deeply beloved and venerable monarch
whose wisdom has ruled long and glorousy over
The MINISTER OF STATE.
The Reichstag assembled at 1890 p NJ amid
unusual excitement in the lobbies 1t had been
agreed that the ringing of the bell. the custom
ary signal for assemblage cf the members
.kn1nId be stopped, and that the Deputies should
epfer the hall quietly and without ceremony
al the benches in the house were speedily filed
and the galleries crowded. Profo und ST.
lence reigned A large number of federal com
Inissaries were in their places at the federal
councillors table from an early hour Mean
while the plenipotentiaries awaited Prince Bis
marck in the lobby. and as soon as he arrived
they went with him to the hall of the Federal
Council. where thsy held private conference.
At half past IL the members of the Council en-
tered the Reichstag and took positions to the
lefs of the presidential chair Immediately after
ward the President was called away for an inter
view with Prince Bismarck. At 1892 Prince
Bismarck appeared and the members rose in
body. The Chancellor. after pause, said;
The sad duty devolves upon me of making to
szou 90 official communication of what you know
Asss4 4ag-that since hAf-past o'clock his Maj
esbEnlperor William has been at rest with his
fathers. In consequence of this event, the
PrussIan throne, and with this, according TO
Article IL of the Imperial Constitution, the i'm
periaE dignity has fallen upon his Majesty Fred
erick III, King of Prussia. The telegraphic iu-
telligence received by me allows of the assump-
tiac that his Majesty, the reigning Emperor and
King. will leave San Reno tomorrow, arriving
in due course in Berlin
During the last days of his life received
from the much-lamented King a confirmation of
the power for work which only left him with his
ife-the signature which lies before me, and
which empowers to close the Reichstag at
the usual time when its labors are finished. |
addressed to the Emperor the request that he
should sign only with the first letters of his
name. His Majesty replied that he believed
himself still able to write his name in full In
consequence. this historical document with the
last signature of his Majesty. lies before
Under the circumstances l assume that it would
be In accordance with the wish of the Reichstag,
as we'll as of the representatives of the federal
governments. not TO separate just now, but to
remain in session until after the arrival of his
Majesty the Emperor; Therefore do not make
ization beyond depositine it in the
archives historical document,
and requesting your President to induce the
adoption of resolutions which will reflect the
feeling and convictions of the Reichstag 1t
does not become me to give from my official
place expression to he personal feelings with
of the first German Emperor, from midst.
fills me- There is. in fact, 20 need of it. for the
feelings which animate me live IN the heart of
every German. But there is thing which
believe I should not conceal from you 1t
does not concern my sentiments, but my ex-
nb which the shas ra.r s%a s d 5se
parted lived to his house afflicted there
two circumstances which filled him with
effect that the suffering of his only son and sue
cessor, our present sovereign lord, had pro-
duced throughout the world not only in
Germany, but in every part of the world. I re-
sympathy showing what confidence the dynasty
of the imperial house has acquired among all
nations This is the legacy which the Emperors
long reign bequeaths to the German people; the
confidence which his dynasty has won is
ferred To the nation, despite anything that has
happened"
After the adjournment Prince Bismarck da-
seended from the elevated seats occupied by the
members of the Bundesrath into the body of the
House, and crested Count Won Ioltke The
members crowded around him he showed the
order dissoivine the Reehstac. all being anxious
to see the last signature of the Emperor
The Reichstae sitting was an event of histor-
zeal Importance never likely to be forgotten by
those who witnessed it. Prince Bismarck con-
trolled his feelings only by violent efforts. He
was only able to force out few words at time.
Sometimes he could barely speak at all, and was
OOIge1 10 make long pAISeS TO suppress Tears
which he tried to hide by lifting his portfolio
a glass of water.
At the meeting of the lower house of the
Prussian Diet to-day, Herr Won Puttkamer,
Vice e-president of the Prussian Ministerial Coun-
ell arose and said:
have the sad duty to make a most painful COM
municaton to the house. 1t has pleased God to call
his Majesty the Emperor, in the twenty eighth year
Of his glorious reign from his earthly existence by
peaceful death at $50 o'clock this morning. You
will expect me- ths most solemn moment.
when sorrow and deeply stir
hearts to attempt to depict the feelings with which
the whole nation is filed through the loss of
most beloved exalted and venerable ruler may,
ho wever. safely and confidently say this day Of
trial that the Prussian people and their repre-
sentatives will than be penetrate ed by
the consciousness that the sorrows of exalted
soveregns house theirs and that the deeper the
universal pain at the decease of everremenbered
King the stronger and indissoluble will be the
link uniting Prussias sovereign house and Prlssiss
people in good and evil days. leave it to yourselves
take such resolutions suitable to the gravity
Of the situation
Herr Won Keller. the President of the House.
closed the sitting with the words: God pr3teet
the royal house and the faith erland.n