St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-17

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strength and pugilistic skill were not
equal to the measure of his ambition,
and he is now quartered in the hospital.
MORIER is MENTIONED.
A New Phase Given to the Geffc-
ken-Morier Episode.
BERLIN, Jan. 16.-In accordance with
command of Emperor William the
Reichsanzeiger to-day publishes the in
dictment that was found against Prof.
Geffcken in order that the people may
be enabled to form their own Judgment
regarding the administration of justice
in Germany. The Indictment states
that Prof. Geffcken extracted from the
diary which contained 700 pages and
which was confided to him by the late
Emperor Frederick in March. 1878. the
portions published. He had no author
ity to make the diary public. Emperor
Frederick himself being of the opinion
that it should only be published after
lapse of long period after his death.
| The Indictment further states that En-
peror Frederick'S proclamation an
nouncing his accession to the throne,
issued ON March IL. was prepared by
Prof. Geffcken as early as June, 1885,
when the late Emperor William was
seized with fainting fits during stay at
Baron Won Roggenbach and Prof.
Geffchen are appended to the indict-
ment. Baron Won Roggenbach, in
letter written in September, 1888, after
expressing approval of political men,
Orial which it was proposed to present
to.the Emperor, says that in few days
| a meeting on the subject would be held
| at Morier'S house. Prof. Geffcken's
letters, which cover the period from
| 1880 to 1887. are marked throughout by
| hostile criticism of Bismarck and his
policy. Morier is frequently mentioned
| in the course of the correspondence, the
| references to him showing that he was
| III the confidence of the writer. Notice
was given in the bundesrath to-day that
| a motion would be made at to-mOrrow'S
session that the Geffcken affair be made
the order of the day. Prince Bismarck
has submitted to the bundesrath all the
documents used during the judicial in
quiry, including the correspondence
seized at the residence Of Baron Won
Roggenbach. The lower house of the
landtag has reelected Herr Won K0eller
president and Herren Heeremann and
Benda vice presidents. Herr Won ScholZ,
minister of finance, brought forward
the budget to-day. The Reichsan-
zeiger also publishes Prince Bismarck's
report to Emperor William, in which he
points out the necessity for publishing
the indictment in order to cOunteract
the perniciouS effect of the miSrepre-
sensations of home and foreign journals,
which he says aim at representing the
public prosecutor and the imperial
tribunal as being partial and inspired
with
A DESIRE FOR PERSECUTION.
The Indictment says that Geffcken
admitted it was unlikely that Empress
Frederick would have given permission
to publish the diary, and quotes from
letter written by Geffcken to his wife
from Heligoland, as follows: .sThe
matter worries me so that l can
not sleep. Oh, if l had only fol-
lowed your good advice; my intentions
were the purest. l had no idea that I
should raise such storm" 1t appears
that his wife had warned him against
publishing the diary. The Geffeken in
dictment states that Prof. Geffcken con-
fessed that he believed that Emperor
Frederick wOald not have given him
the diary had he thought it
would, be published. Prof. Geffcken
made extracts from the diary
for his own use, never thinking that the
emperor would die before himself. His
object in publishing the extracts was to
show that Emperor Frederick was a
noble ideologist, and the moving power
at the foundation of the empire. On
comparing the abstracts published
with copies of diaries in the
possession of the government. it
appears that the manuscript from which
Geffcken copied has disappeared with
Loo
were adduced-Frau Krug, widow,
minister Won Stosch and the novelist
Freytag-to prove that the late Emperor
Frederick never contemplated pub
fishing his diary. The violation
OF secrecy which is the basis of
the charge of treason is treated under
six heads, as follows: First, the origin
and constitution of the empire; second,
relations with the Vatican; third, with
Russia; fourth, with England: fifth,
with Luxembourg and the guaranteeing
powers; sixth, with Belgium and
France. Under the first head the in
dictment says that the idea which EN-
peror Frederick contemplated OF en-
ploying force against the southern
States would beget q
FEAR OF SUCH FORCE
in future which might induce those
states. as safety precaution, to make
agreements with other powers damag-
ing to their relations with the empire.
The Indictment quotes official reports
from the Prussian legations i'll Bavaria,
Saxony, Wurtemburg and Baden,
and in this sense further diplO-
matte and semi-official press re-
ports from various European capitals
are quoted. in similar manner, to show
how statements in the diary tended to
injure Germany's interests abroad and
incite distrnst of the German empire.
The Indictment then proceeds to prove
that Geffcken, being profess
sor of public law, was per
fectly aware of the consequences of the
publication. 1t quotes letters disproE-
ing>the statement that he was suffering
from mental alteration; asserts that he
burned Rodenburg'S letters in order to
put the public On the wrong track as to
authorship of the article, and quotes
expressions used by Geffcken
! decade ago at Barmen from
which it is concluded THAT his
ambition had been disappointed and
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