St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-29
Kalnoky's Scheme for Gus
toms Reprisals Against
America Tablsd.
France, Germany and Austria
ALI Accept the Principle
Of Reciprocity.
Extensive Preparations to
Quell German Socialistic
Demonstrations.
Scandals Involving Members
OF the Aristoeraey Stir
Up the Press.

| BERLIN. Sept. 28.-Combined infor-
nation received from the German em-
bassy in Paris that M. Ribot, the
French minister of foreign affairs, had
negotiated with Whitelaw Reid. the
American minister, for reciprocity az
rangement between France and the
| United States. has summarily settled
the project of Count Kalnoky, the Aus
| tro:Hungarian prime minister, for COM
bined reprisals against the United
| States in retaliation for the Mckinley
tariff bill. Emperor William never en-
| teTtained the idea of reprisals. Chan
| cellor Won Caprivi appears to have
| dallied with the project until the en-
| perOr'S return from the maneuyerS,
! when the suggestions Of the Semi-Official
press here and in Vienna for
a customs coalition suddenly ceased.
| Chancellor Won Caprivi had a conference
| with Herr MIGUEL and accepted his
scheme to lessen the coStOf living to the
masses by higher taxes on the moneyed
| classes, the principle involving the
to American pork. The official impress
sion here is that Minister Phelps over
lures for a settlement, if renewed,
| backed by some easy concessions on
| German exports to the United States,
will find ready response from Chan
cellor Won Caprivi. Advices from vi
emma Indicate that the Austrian govern
ment also accepts the
Principle of Reciprocity.
Count Kalnoky having instructed the
Austrian minister at Washington to
| make representations in the matter of
pearl and other Austrian Industries af-
fected by the Mckinley bill. with
view to the negotiation of treaty.
Herr MlQuePs financial statements have
| also declSivly Influenced military re-
forms and led to the retire
ment of Gen. Veroy du Vernois from
the war ministry. and the proffered
! resignation of Gen. Count Won Valdez
see, both of whom urged Emperor Will
lam to adopt ScharnhOrsts plan for the
reorganization Of the army. This plan
entailed large additions to the artillery
and cavalry, and a consequent heavy
increase in the war budget. Gen. du
Vernois. believing that the emperor
would assent, announced In the COM
mittee of the reichstag last session the
ScharnhOrst scheme as adopted. Herr
MiquePS calculations proved that tine
carrying out of Scharnhorst's plan
and a budget of 550000,000 marks would
render the kaiser's aims in the direction
Of social amelioratiOn hopeless. Despite
the popularity of the Scharnhorst
scheme in the military circle, the chan
cellor has thrown the whole weight
of his influence against adding
to the war budget. The emperor's de-
finitive approval of the MIGUEL ideas
made the retirement of Gen. Verdy du
Vernois and Gen. Count Won Waldersee
inevitable. The semi-official press
maintains silence in regard to the re-
newal of the triple alliance. A COM
munication published III the Pesther
Lloyd announced that an agreement
had been obtained.,f Ehe scope of the
agreement is in the meantime withheld
from the public. The communication
adds that the !. rs
strengthening of the Alliance
has been fully achieved. The prepare
tons against socialist manifestations on
Oct. are equal to the contingencies of
civil war. The police have been ordered
to act on modified system, and have
been reinforced in every populous cen
| ter where it is supposed they will be re-
quired. The troops will be kept IN
| readiness in their barracks. The COM
mittees of the socialists ridicule the
expectation of an outbreak, knowing
the pacific character of the arrange
mentS. There Will be no public mass
| demonstration. Delegates from the
Berlin committees will await the ar
rival at the stations of number of the
socialists who were expelled, twenty
six OF whom have signified their inten-
ton Of returning out of the several hun
dred who were expelled. They will be
conducted to a reception room, where
they will be welcomed banquet given
| of frt>s, tI1ia tf.r.,
speeches will be made. Several eX-
| trem;sts will be excluded from the pro-
| ceedines iii order TO prevent the police
having any excuse to interfere and to
avoid subsequent prosecution under the
common law. Those taking part in
the celebration will wear medals
that have been struck off in
| cOmmemOratiOn of the expiration
of the repression law. Great assemblies
will gather here. in Leipsic, Hamburg
and Frankfort, but everywhere they
will be organized to preclude disorder
or breach of the law. The Centerist
| papers announce that this will be an
| Opportune time to issue statement on
social questions, signed by all the Cath
olic bishops in Prussia. A conference
of the Volkspartei, which was attended
| by 200 delegates, has been held. Herr
Krobes presided. 1t was decided to
| U1dlHtdiu dll
independent Party Existence.
A number of the delegates advocated
that the party be merged with the pro-
gressists. Lord Rosebery and Count
| Herbert Bismarck arrived here to-day
| from FREDERICKSBURG, where Lord Rose
| berry has been sojOurning for several
| days. He obtained from Prince Bis
| marck promise that he would Wis
| it Scotland in the spring if
the POLITICAL situation permitted.
In letters to several of the herrenhaus
Bismarck states his intention to attend
all debates on questions of national i'm
pOrtance. The Breslauer Zeitung, in
the report of an interview with the ex-
chancellor, made him say that he is
still vice president of the staatsrath,
holding an unmoyable position. Semi
official communications in the press af-
firm that the Office in question: was held
by virtue of his official functions and
that it ceased on the day his resignation
from the chancellory was accepted.
The point debateable is whether Bis
marck's honorary rank qualities him for
the staatsrath. The recent scandals in
vOlving members of the aristOcracy are
gravely discussed by the press and are
the theme of guarded pulpit illusions.
The kreuz Zeitung mourns the deca-
dence of the nobility and warns it's
members that they must lead a
better life if they do not
wish to provoke the masses TO revolu-
ton. The Germania, OIL the other
hand, protests against charging the
aristocracy with general corruption.
holding that only those are corrupt
whose materialistic conceptions have
destroyed the moral consciousness.
The Reichsbate attributes the moral
Decay of the Nobility
to too much money, no serious work, no
moral discipline, gross living. and de-
PRAYED company. 1t lnvokes the aristo-
| cratic leaders to combine to purify So
ciety and to exercise stricter control
of their families. The emperor has or
dered that a report be made on the
conduct of the military schools. A priv
ate inquiry is proceeding. 1t touches
closely upon the gambling habits and
secret designations of number of
officers. The president of the East