The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-04-12
BISMARCK.
His Position Under the Regime of
Empress Victorla-The EN-
press Party.
Bismarck Said to be Backed by
the Army aud the Ger
man People.
GERMANY.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS.

Battenburg, comes to Charlottenburg next
Thursday, and his betrothal to Princess
Victoria takes place early in June. Prince
Bismarck has withdrawn his resignation
solely from the consideration that the
domination of Empress Victoria would
lead to the speedy breakup of German
unity. Nothing since the access
sion of Emperor Frederick has
occurred that has so strongly
animated Prussian conservatives against
the empress as the marriage question. 1t
now becomes known that the empress will
impel her helples husband to thwart Prince
Bismarck, without regard to the respect
due to the late emperor or to the national
safety. The policy of the conservatives
at this time represents the genuine feel
ings of the whole German people. All of
the radical newspapers, such as the
Vossiche Zeitupg, which treats the Bat
tenberg question with disdain as of no
consequence to the German policy, ig-
nores the fact that Battenberg is only one
chord in the general discord struck by the
party of the empress.
The reticence of the Berlin press, in
referring to court intrigues, has been
greater than was required by Difference to
the emperor and leading officers of the
state. Matters have been concealed or
only furtively alluded to, which ought to
be discussed with the fullest publicity.
The Battenberg marriage becomes
almost minor incident in court in
trigues.
| Among several schemes the emperor
has been induced to send to Count Won
Moltke a series of statements on the con-
dition of the army, followed by the re-
quest that he preside at the meeting of
the commissioners on reforms in the
army.
Count Won Moltke has replied that it
would be impossible for him to preside
over the commission without knowing
how it was constituted and what reforms
were desired. Consequently, the commits
sion has been dropped.
Another move of the party of the en-
press is to overhaul the diplomatic ap-
pointmentl. If Bismarck had consented,
Prince Won Reuss, minister at Vienna,
would have been replaced; Count Won
Munster withdrawn from Paris, and Baron
Hatzfeldt from London, because each is
knitinto Bismarck's policy. The position
between the parties now is a mele truce.
To-night's National Zeitung says that
the betrothal is postponed, but that
circumstances may arise under which
Prince Bismarck will no longer oppose the
| union.
An official note sent, as sometim es now
happens, through Vienna, says that, in
| conseq uence of the memorandum laid be-
fore Prince Bismarck, setting forth the
difficulties which, from political point
of view, stand in the way of mstrimo-
NAL alliance between Prince Alexander
of Battenberg and the Princess Victoria,
it has been arranged that the
affair shall be postponed I'M
til the political objections now
raised shall cease to operate. The estab-
lishment of the settled order in Bulgaria,
and the removal of all possibility of Alex
ander raising rallying cry will deprive
the marriage of all political importance
The visit of the queen of England to
Charlottenburg, therefore, will take place
as arranged, but the betrothed will not
publicly be brought forward on the occa-
sion. This is an oficiel statement, and
simply means that Prince Bismarck's ad-
vice has been overruled.
The queen of England comes here with
her Battenburg pledge to carry out
her family projects without regard for
the sentiments of the German nobility,
or the German people, and equally re-
CARELESS that her daughter, the empreF s,
tharwts the policy of the minister who
made her empress, and without whom i'm
perial Germany might cease to be. Moth
ing in Prince Bismarck's life is 30 hopor-
able, so full of self command and loyalty
to Germany, as his temporary submission
to the empress regime. He has
the enthusiastic support of Count Won
Moltke and other leaders of the army
and leaders of the conservative and
national libeaal parties, and even has the
begrudged approval of the progressist
chiefs. The chancellor does not, there
fore, rely on the military party. He has
the support of the whole country and of
the royal heads of the German federation,
and is absolute master of the situation.
The emperors condition gave rise to
serious alarm yesterday. Both his cough
and splitting were augmented, and he suf-
fered from nervous excitement. To-day
he rested for several hours, and, after
partaking of luncheon of oysters, drove
out for the first time in several days in q
closed carriage.
To days bulletin says that for the last
few nights he has been unable to sleep
well ON account of headache, and that the
malady from which he is suffering now
appears to be moving from the back OF
the larynx more to the front, which ia
regarded by the physicians as favorable
symptom, because danger OF the disease
attacking the aesophsgus will be thus
averted.
The empress will go to Posen on Mon.
day to inquire into the condition of the
sufferers by the floods. Dreadful accounts
have been received from Posen
Two hundred and fifty villages are
in rains and 5000 persons are without
shelter. When the dykes at Warthege
gave way large number of lives were
lost. The loss in livestock is incalculable
Officials have been actively engaged i'll re-
pairing the damage done. The fund
raised by subscription in Berlin for relief
of the sufferers is Insignificant in COM
parison with the losses. famine is
threatened in Posen, Pomerania and Sile
sie, and the number of persons emigrating
to America will soon be enormously in
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