Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-08

way. He offers lust one remedy, leaving
each faction to put its own meaning on the
phrase, aud that is revision of the constitu-
tion.
~.
King Milan of Servia IL pushing fndustri-
ously ahead in his efforts to obtain divorce,
and The royal scandal is being discussed
everywhere Queen Natalie has gone to
| Bucharest so as TO be as near as possible to
| Belgrade when the suit for divorce is heard.
| She is not allowed by her royal husband to
enter Servian territory. The prince has
written his petition for divorce entirely in his
own hand He says he asks for divorce, not
| for his own advantage, but for that of the
country whose Interests are compromised by
the queens conduct. The grounds on which
he asks for divorce, and which are SUM-
cient according to the Servian church, is that
of insurmountable aversion for each other
| between himself and the queen. 1t is not be-
licvcd the King will obtain his divorce, but
in any case either will have the right of APP
peal to the superior ecclesiastical court, COM
posed of archbishops and archiman-
drtes. The kings chief ground
of complaint appears to be his
wife's desire to spite him in all possible ways.
He declares that If he wished to ride out the
queen always preferred to walk If he
chanced to admire a dress she had on she
would change it at once, and that when his
army and himself were beaten by the Bull
garans his wife addressed him a most in
sultng telegram, nquiring practically why
he did not learn to fight before he set up as
king. She would also countermand royal
dinner parties to which he had invited am
bassadors and other friends. 1t was hoped
a feeling of national sympathy so strong as
to influcrce the king would be aroused in
| Queen Natalie's favor but this has been
disappointed. In the first place the king is a
Russian, and in the second place, Servian
ideas of wives and wfely obedience are quite
worthy of the Turks. The Servian peasan-
try, who form the bulk of the population,
oblige their wives to work in the fields and
take their meals apart. To them the idea of
a wife, even though she be a queen, defyiug
her husband in any way is a thing which
should not be encouraged.
w.
1t is SAID that marriage, or at least a
betrothal, has been arranged between the
eldest son of Don Carlos, and therefore, of
course, the heir to the Carlst pretensions,
and the young Infanta, the sister OF the in
fant king Of Spain. 1t is said that this at
tempt to settle dynastic quarrel which has
| repeatedly plunged the peninsula in war, has
the hearty approval of the queen regent and
of the present ministry. Obviously, such a
| union would only settle the dispute about
succession, now some half q century old, in
case the infant king should die and his rights
should pass by inheritance TO his sister, as
they would if we accept the theory, always
rejected by the Carlists, that the Saic law
does not obtain in Spain. In any event. VIC
| chpi1l han q ctofn pf fbinpc nnn1nnpIls
to that which existed in England at the
close of the fifteenth century, after
the marriage of Henry VII.
| representative of the Lancostrians, to Eliz
abeth, the daughter of Edward ", ant
and consequently heiress of the Yorkis
claims. In their son, Henry VIII. the con
f1icting titles to the crown, which had raclet
England for century, were merged. The
U same thing would be true of the son of tho
Carlist prince and the infanta, should tn,
present king of Spain die without heirs. Blu
y if, on the other hand, the young king shoult
live, this marriage on which the queen re
: gent counts for peace and harmony would
aggravate the situation. For then the Carl
ist pretensons would remain just what the,
were before, anG5their representative, beinl
II allowed to live I'M Spain and build up part.
: there, would acquire opportunities for in
trlgue and conspiracy such as neither hi
Il father nor his grandfather enjoyed. So that
from this point of view, the queen regen
and her advisers may with the best inten
! tions, be doing after all, the worst thing pos
. sible for the infant sovereign.
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The latest exchange Of titles and honors i
that by which Emperor William ii. has mad
King Oscar H. an admiral in the German
navy and King Oscar ii. has made Empero
D William II. an admiral in the Swedish navy
They are probably equally worthy of thi
y nautical distinction, and neither will tax
away the laurels of Nelson and Farragut
y There is something rather amusing in tn
~ profuse swapping of titular dignites an
u u decorations that has been going on among
~ !. the monarchs of Europe who have hobnobbe
u together this year. Luckily these gifts ar
70 less expensive to the donors than the mos
. costly kinds of diamond snuff boxes, and tn
= amusement is so comparatively Harmless
: that their subjects can hardly grumble. BE
y sides, these exchanges of colonelcies and &C
u miralships and what not give great opportu
mites for masquerading in new uniform.
and a large part of the enjoyment which tn
young German emperor has thus far foun
., in reigning seems to have been that of ril
~ ging himself out in the military and nave
;" clothes of different nations.
= ~
% Prince Bismarck once remarked, when
10 was in trouble with the vatican, that wv
~ will not go to Canossa." The complete co
10 lapse of the Kulturkampf sent Germany yer
IL far on the way to Canossa, and more recer
% occurrences have given what may be taken q
. nearly complete assurance that Bismarc
n fears, as much as he dislikes, the intiuenc
= of Rome in German politics. In view of tn
= coming visit of the Emperor William to Kin
~ Humbert-a proposed visit which is sal
~ greatly to have annoyed and irritated POP
y Leo-the prince has written private lette
~ to his holiness, explaining the situation an
~ saying that William will go to Rome solel
for the purpose of examining the militar
situation and because he intends to see a
- his cousins" and allies in succession. Bi
- ~ marck and the papal nuncio at Vienna al
70 arranging the terms on which the pope an
~ emperor shall meet.
ls Italy needs disarmament freedom frol