Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-10
NEWS FROM BERLIN.
A Protest Against Imperial
Avarice.
WILHELM'S HEALTH AND HABITS.
BePesfOrd and Bismarck-An Attempt
to Make England Scared OF
BOulanger.

Copyright, 1889. by New York Associated
Press.
BERLIN, February Sin the lower
House of the Prussian Diet to-day, the
Emperor's civil list passed the second
reading, after a debate in which the
Progressists emphatically protested
against increasing the Imperial allow
ance by $500 900 marks. They had no
difficulty in proving that the wealth Of
the Imperial family is already enormous,
the Emperor having at his disposal not
only his revenue of 1880 D00 marks,
hut also other resources from his family
domains. Hoffkammer, who admin
listers the domains, is charged with the
care of the Crown ediices, forests and
lands, and the collection Of rents. The
farm lands are so extensive as to require
division into seventy-seven steward
ships, each comprising q number OF
farms. The supporters Of the bill could
not show any necessity for an increase
of the Imperial income. They rested
their demand upon the argument that as
the Emperor's work and functions were
increasing, his revenue ought to be en-
larged.
The state of health of the Emperor is
again delicate. With the renewal of the
severe weather his ear troubles have
been aggravated. DR.. Bergman has
been specially summoned three times
this week. The Emperor rises at 5
o'clock. He makes his children share
his own severe regime. The princes are
reused at 6 o'clock and often breakfast
& with their father at 6 80. Their lessons
, i, begin at O'Clock. The Grown Prince
a has jnst obtained his first grade in the
n army, having been appointed gefreite, a
! position similar to that of corporal. He
has now his own suite of rooms and
household. Twice daily he is instructed
!, :, in military drill with his brothers. He
is allowed one and half hours q day
!, for play. This scheme OF lessons and
a life for each hour is rig;dly executed.
DIR. Windthorst has given notice that
;, he will offer motion to insert in the act 6
!, tries under German protection, guaran-
4 tees of liberty of conscience to natives
& and foreigners, free exercise of public
9 worship and the right of missionary pro-
~ paganda. The motion has the semblance
a OF simple declaration of religious toler-
~ alton, but, concealed under the recogni-
ton of this general principle, the Center
!. party aims at obtaining the consent OF
ic the Reichstag to Jesuit propaganda in
s. the colonies.
l. Both the Emperor and Prince Bis
ID marck have had long conferences with
.s Lord Charles Beresford. During the
n interviews the conversation turned upon
n Englands state of preparation for wal
,f against the combined naval forces o.
.t France and Russia. Prince Bismarck
l. it is reported, advised Lore
l. Charles that an Anglo-Frencf
% war was nearly as probable az
Of one between France and Germany, ant
ID if the Boulauger Clique saw possibility
Or of beating England by sudden attack
RS they would prefer the risk to taking the
Of chances of the terrible results of de-
h feat by Germany. Prince Bismarck de
ut clared his readiness to conclude defen
ID sive alliance with England. He told
it Beresford to strongly represent to hi
v. Government the urgent necessity tina
England should put her house in order
=, Snow has been falling necessarily
~ ~ since Wednesday throughout centra
~ Germany. Railway traffic is inter
u r1pted, and several trains are embedded
% in the snow.
5. In discussing the Austrian succession
oiiO SOhCiai plOSo ApiCosCo tuc OpluiOi
IL that the Emperor Francis Joseph will
Z recognize the validity Of the provision
y of the Pragmatic Sanction, that only il
!, ! case of the total extinction of the male
u line shall the succession devolve upor
~ the female. Vienna court advices asser
,, that the Emperor Francis Joseph avoids
u facing the succession difficulty. Arch
, duke Francis, the presumptive Grown
y Prince, suffers severely from epilepsy
- He himself desires to live in quietness
and obscnrity. The Emperor detests hii
next brother, Archduke Otto, the scamt
p o so brutally treated his wife, the
a Princess Marie of Saxony, that she re-
g Gently entreated her relatives to give heI
e shelter and procure separation for her
Il The Krease Zeitoag says the Samoan
IS conference will begin Thursday next,
/. and the United States will be represented
q by Chapman Coleman, the first secretary
: OF the American Legation. Prince Bis.
d marck is indisposed.