Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-13
FOREIGN FLASHES.
What the Cable Tells Us
About Distant Realms.
LABoUCHERE's WEEKLY BUDGET.
The Morier Incident Kept Alive
Samoan Troubles Charged
to Americans.

copyright, 1880, By New YorX Associated
Press
BERLIN, January 12.-Prince Bismarck
will address the Reichstag Tuesday in
the debate on foreign estimates. The
exclamation of the Chancellor's anxiety
to return to Berlin must be sought in the
outcome Of the Morier and Geffeken af-
fairs, though no attention should be paid
to the rumors of the foreign press that
his resignation is imminent.
The Reichstag to-day after stormy
debate confirmed the election of Herr
Goetz, National Liberal, as member for
Leipzig. The Socialists accused the Gov
ernment officials of illegal practices to
secure his triumph over the Socialists
candidate.
The Landtag will be opened on Mon
day.
The Emperor has ordered that the
best boys and girls in the Berlin schools,
both high and low, shall be treated on
formance at the opera house of Widen.
b,uch's patriotic play, Die Quitzows.
The two eldest sons of the Emperor will
The Official Gazette announces the be.
trothal of Princess Louise, sister of the
Empress, to Princess Leopold of Prussia.
ATTACKS UPON MoRIER CONTINUE.
Attacks upon Morier have bv no
means ceased, and the apparently end
less variations thereof are becoming
wearisome, and even disgusting to an
impartial public.
The Kolnische Zeitung, returning to the
charge to-day, seems to throw suspicion
says: "There exists in England power
Russian understanding, and Morier, who
was formerly held in esteem by Queen
Victoria and Empress Frederick, for
feited favor by the decided opposition he
offered to Battenburgism in the interests
of this party"
The Norddeutsche Zeitung, which has
hitherto to great extent held aloof from
the dispute, tonight inserts its end Of
the wedge. With the view of showing
to what extent the intentions of En-
peror Frederick differed from the ten
dency of the Liberal party, it publishes
an autograph letter from Emperor Fred
erick to Prince Bismarck on the occasion
of the jubilee of the Chancellor's entry
into the army. The letter is
as follows: II do not wish to-
day to enter upon long dis
cussion OF the statesmanlike merits
which have bound up your name forever
with our history, but one thing 1 must
point out, namely: That whenever there
was a question of assuring the well-being
of the army and and of perfecting its de-
fensive power and fighting capacity, you
never failed to take up the struggle and
carry it through to the end. The army,
with the commander in-chief at its head,
therefore thanks you for the blessings
you have conferred upon it, which it
never will forget"
AMERICANS CAUSED THE TROUBLE IN
SAMOA.
An officer of the French engineer re-
serve corps, named Dreyfus, who was
recently arrested at Strasburg without |
passport. and having in his possession
sketches of the forts there, will be prose.
cuted for high treason.
A Sydney letter, on the subject of the
Samoan troubles, which appears in the |
Frankfurt Zeitung, declares the
truth of the report that the
rebellion was instigated by
Americans is frankly acknowledged |
by all the English correspondents in
Samoa, all of whom deeply regret the
action taken by the Americans. Captain
Leary, the American commander, Is
severely reproached for encouraging
Mataafa. The rebels, it is asserted,
owing to lack of ammunition would
long ago have consented to negotiate, had
not American traders promised the
arrival Of steamer from San francisco
with arms and ammunition. The letter
also indicates that the turning of the
English consulate into hospital, led to
the German complaint that the English
officials were showing sympathy with the
rebels.