St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-20
The Chancellor Has a Strong
Card in Reserve Against
Morier.
Count Herbert Bismarck Is
Suffering From an Attack
Of SWelled Head.
Always Rough and Imperious,
Official Promotion Has 80
Made Him Worse. ~

to the reichStag at the end of the week,
when it will evoke the long expected
declaration from Prince Bismarck on
the governments colonial policy and it's
relations with England. The measure,
it is believed, will be finally passed
by a large majority. The measure
is known by parliamentary circles
as the outcome of an agreement
between the government groups after.a
consultation with Prince Bismarck.
The center party will also approve of
following the policy observed during
Tuesdays debate. The opposition will
thus be left to the progressists only,
and this will narrow the debate into
lively encounters between the chancel-
lor and his persistent assail-
ants. An important part of
the bill, the proposals relat-
ing to the enrolling and disposition
of levies. it is understood Will be
settled in secret sitting of the COM
committee. Interest really centers in
what Prince Bismarck will choose to
reveal concerning the cooperation of
England. 1t is noted here that English
opinion against colonial extension by
Germany gains ground, and even
Conservative papers suggest that
Lord Salisbury weakly yielded
to the requests of Prince Bis
maIck without knowing how far the
chancellor's designs extended. Prob
ably Prince Bismarck will frankly dis
close how completely the English gov
eminent has been appraised of every
phase of the German policy, as en-
bodied in the East Africa bill. He is
DESTROYS of preventing English Liberals
from
MAKING PARTY CAPITAL
from the concert of the government.
Every suggestion coming from Lord
Salisbury during the negotiations has
been accepted here. The chancellor
will therefore announce absolute
harmony in the corporations. The
Morier incident has not had the slight
est effect in the relations between the
two governments. 1t may have formed
the subject of conversation dur
ing recent interviews between Prince
Bismarck and Sir Edward Malet.
the British ambassador. Officially
Lord Salisbury leaves Morier to fight
his own duel. The diplomatic circle is
confident that Prince Bismarck has a
strong card in reserve against Morier,
and will probably oblige Lord Salisbury
to take official notice of the affair by
transferring MOrier from st. Petersburg
to some post that has less influence on
European politics. The Geffcken
correspondence, covering $50 folios,
has been submitted to the bun
publish the correspondence, but the
ic tO lQorr, hot
the country has had a surfeit of
Geffcken. Besides, public opinion is
maturing in favor of Geffcken. The
Progressist press, knowing it to be a
powerful weapon of offense, would sus-
tain the agitation. The Tageblatt de-
mands a complete clearing of the
affair. the production of the
appendices to the Indictment,
the answers for the defense,
the reasons for the decision
of the tribunal, etc. The semi-Official
press continues to give favorable eX-
tracts from correspondence, but other
wise has ceased to refer to the matter.
The official press of Vienna upholds the
action of Prince Bismarck. Count Won
Taafa's organ, the Presse, holds that
the prosecution was
FORCED UPON THE GOVERNMENT
by the exigencies of actual politics, and
denounces Geffcken as hardly waiting
for his royal friend to sink into the
grave before publishing the dairy. The
paper bIameS Emperor Frederick's Sc
lection as confidant of person with
out responsibility. This public COM
ment, which is entirely in taste with
the German official press, does not
disclose the real opinion of the
court and official circles of
Vienna, which censure Geffcken
and condemn the unWise course of Bis
marck. The Austrian official mind can
not understand the Berlin government
fighting it's opponents by disclosures
affecting the imperial family. Private
letters from Vienna convey the impress
sion of profound surprise at the folly of
Bismarck. The malicious reports of the
ill-health of the chancellor originated
with the Kreutz Zeitung, the
and Orthodox Declarants' asso-
represent the warnings of the orthodox
to see Bismarck Frustrated. His life in
Berlin under his modified work agrees
with him. He walks daily in the vicin-
ity of Wilhelmstrasse, seemingly unat-
tended, but in reality guarded by sew
eral police agents. His residence is
also guarded on both the Will
helmstrasse and Koeniggraetz-strass
sides. The household is limited,
twelve servants being sufficient
for the simple life led by himself and
the princess. He works in spacious
cabinet plainly furnished with book
case and an immense table covered with
documents. On the walls are two paint
ings representing the late car and
William [. The chancellor works to a
late hour and is not an early riser.
Count Herbert Bismarck visits his
father in the forenoon, first going to the
chancellerie, the officials of which have
learned to await him and are punctual
workers. Life within the chancellerie
is understood to be
ANYTHING BUT PLEASANT.
Count Herbert, who is himself glut-
ton for work, cOmpels robust service
and is harsh critic of official reports.
Always rough and imperious, his man.
ner has become worse since he attained
his present office. The succession to
the throne of Holland, combined with
the Luxembourg question, occupies the
attention of diplomatists. Under the
advice of Bismarck. the Duke
of Nassau has abandoned his in
tention of abdicating in favor of
his son on the death of the king of
Holland. The German government will
not change the position of Luxembourg
fixed by the treaty OF 1867. The Duchy
will enter the German Zollverein, but
otherwise remain separate from the en-
pire. The budget committee of the
reichstag has agreed upon the esti-
mates for the construction of war ships.
DR.. Stocker has induced the ultra-cOn.
servatives in the reichstag to support the
proposals to prohibit the importation of
alcoholic beverages to the German colo
MES. Stocker is in difficulty through
his denial that he wrote letter trying
to influence the legal evidence in the
case of Rev. DR.. White. The latter has
produced the letter. A consistory of
the clergy has cited DIR. Stocker for
trial. The applications to enter
Lieut.. Wissman's service in the