St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29
Empress Augusta Gives a Spe-
cial Reception to Minis
ter Phelps.
Kaiser Williams Substitution
Of Royal Caprice for Ger
man Law.
Gladstone Will Celebrate the
Eightieth Anniversary Of
His Birth To-Day.

not one of the victims of influenza. His
condition does not occasion any alarm.
but he is i'll enough to compel him to
give up almost entirely the effort to
transact official business ane to prevent
his presence at court on New Years
day. His doctors oppose his desire to
reappear in the reichstag and take part
in the debate on the socialist law or the
military credits, or any subject likely to
irritate him. In responding to compli-
ments at the diplomatic reception on
New Years day. the emperor will make
a short pacific declaration, the presump-
ton being that the royal and imperial
word on this occasion gives key note
for Europe for the year. On Christmas
eve th ere were assembled in the new
palace only the prince Prince and Prin-
cess Leopold, of Russia. The Duke
and Duchess of SAKE Meiningen are at
POtsda but the illness Of Princess
Fedora, their only child, prevented
their attending the family party. Each
one of the emperor'S five sons had a
large Christmas
TREE ALL FOR HIMSELF
placed on a table in Shell hall, the tree
of the emperor and empress being on
another table in the center Of the hall.
The emperor passed the greater part of
Christmas eve assisting in the decora-
ton OF the trees and frolicking with the
children, and left the party to go to
theater for Barnay's revival of Ham
let" On Christmas day the emperor
and empress and the Grand Duke and
Duchess of Baden dined with the En-
press Augusta aud her family. The
grand duke did not remain, but was
compelled to retire in consequence of
his illness with influenza. The whole
Bismarck family celebrated Christmas
at FREDERICKSBURG. Count Herbert has
the influenza slightly. but it did not
prevent bis presence at the family gath
ering. Tonight the Empress Augusta
will give a special reception to Mr..
Phelps, the United States minister, In
the presence of her full court. Countess
PerpOncher, the first lady of honor, at
tended the empress, and Count NeSSel-
rode, assisted by Baron Won Eude. made
the presentation. The empress. in the
course of cordial conversation with
MIR. Phelps, expressed her lifelong in
tereSt in American affairs, and her
great desire that the people of the
United States should use their immense
resources always in the interest of
THE PEACE OF THE WORLD.
All society is now intensely interested
in the coming fancy dress ball which
the emperor is to give at the SchloSs,
where every one of the guests must ap-
pear in an Oriental costume. Another
notable social event will be the ball at
the opera house on Feb. IL. This is
,1atpnni1a1 i,x- tho .i,l fn M,
nominal price of tickets is 20 marks, but
the price has risen so that tickets are
now selling for 100 marks. An exceed
ingly interesting discussion is carried
on in private life everywhere, and not
without much heat, over case Just
made by queer proceeding of the en-
perOr in RENTING fine of 400 marks in
tiicted upon an editor by the courts.
DR.. Dachler, the editor OF the Stats
burger Zeitung, Conservative sheet,
lbelled Herr Singer and attacked him
very vigorously because ne posed pub
licly as socialist and friend OF the
people while in fact he is the head of a
factory for making women's cloaks and
similar garments in which the ''sweat-
ing" system is practised at the expense
of many girls employed by him. Dach-
Ter appealed to the courts, the editor
was condemned and paid his fine in
August. This fine was returned by the
emperor on Monday last. Such a use of
the royal prerOgative
NATURALLY SURPRISES PEOPLE.
Hitherto the exercise of royal elem
ency has been restricted to state cases.
For the emperor to thus interfere and
stand between justice and an accused
person in a mere case of private interest
in nrIino yyirio tinn nf &c
rights by another man, is so plain a
substitution of royal caprice for the law
of the land that everybody can under
stand it, and therefore everybody is
profoundly moved by it. The Journals
can not ignore the subject, but they are
obliged to touch it with the greatest
caution for fear of prosecution. The
Liberals of all shades discuss it in pri-
vate, however, and it is universal
theme. The Natlonalists intensely re-
greet the incident, as it plays into the
hands of the ProgreSSistS and the
Socialists on the eve of an election with
a clear demonstration of a gross abuse
of power. This incident will confirm
the National Liberals in their inc.ina-
ton to refuse to vote as it stands the
expulsion clause of the socialist bill.
This party offers. as compromise
that it will vote with the ex-
pulsion clause if the application of that
clause is limited to socialists proved to
be engaged in conspiracy against the
state, and it shall not apply to mere adj
vocacy of socialism in the press or on
the roStrum. 1t is improbable that
Prince Bismarck will accept this COM
promise, and the immediate political flu
ture will take shape from
THIS AS A STARTING POINT.
The liberal spirit of the National-Lib-
eral party. quickened by the Bachler
incident, will make it impossible for
that party to yield on this expulsion
clause. Without this party it cannot be
carried. Prince Bismarck will therefore
withdraw the bill and dissolve the
reichstag Mr.. Gladstone, on the occa-
sion of his eightieth birthday, which
occurs tomorrow. has already received
vast number of presents and remem-
ORANGES from Workingmen and working
women in all parts of the kingdom, and
is also the recipient of costly gifts and
hearty expressions of good will
from hundreds of gentlemen
and ladies of rank without re-
gard to political opinion. The
number of letters and kilograms that
have flown in upon him to day are al
most countless. lO-mOrrOW MT. Glad
stone will spend the day quietly with
his family. but on Monday he will re-
eeive public addresses, etc, and in the
evening will be entertained at COM
plimentary banquet. The Manchester
Reform club will present him with a
magnificent pair of silver lamps and an
address. William O'Brien NJ. p. editor
of the United Ireland. and the very Rev.
Canon Keller have arranged to make a
tour of England and deliver speeches III
the interest of the tenants defense
league, and for the augmentation of the
fund established to support it. 1t is a
matter of fact that great deal of in
terest in the league has been aroused in
England through the dissemination of
pamphlets explaining its objects and
methods, and the efforts of Messrs.
O'Brien and Keller are expected
TO BE FRUITFUL OF RESULTS.
abundantly justifying their arduous
undertaking. The tenants defense
fund has already reached the sum of
$4,000. The epidemic is rapidly de-
creasing here, but is spreading in other
places in Germany. The malady has