St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-13

| The federal governments do not share
the emperOr's eager haste for reforms.
The prospect is, therefore, that when
the emperor opens the reichstag, in his
speech from the throne announcing the
labor measures he will speak without
the quality of detiniteness which char
acterized the announcements of the
Bismarck regime. Beyond the pregnant
fact that the reichstag will be asked to
grant military credit of probably
Sc. .OOO, 900 marks, nothing is known of
the governments programme. The
Progressist press INDUCES in
Visions of a Change
in the tariff policy, a reduction of the
duties on cereals and progressive mOdi-
fications of the customs so as to abolish
the taxation on the articles that are db-
solutely necessary for the use of the
people, and simultaneous adaptation
of the tariffs so as to develop the INDUS
tries of the country. 1t is not believed
in official circles that the emperor will
be rash enough to entangle himself in
the difficulties entailed by revision
of the tariffs, which would involve
complete reforms in the whole
financial and fiscal system Of the
empire. Equally dscredited are
the rumors that the emperor intends to
propose revision of the constitution
In the direction of reduction of the
powers of the bundesrath, while CEN
tralizing power in the hands of minis
try controlled by the emperor. Neither
the reichstag nor the bundesrath will
ever assent to an extension of the i'm
perial powers toward abSOlutism. AL.
Jx,{ hn Lon ,rin nf
empire. incredulOuS of the emperOr'S
capacity and scared by his methods of
governing, are trying to tone down
his self-cOnfidence. 1t is an open
secret that the governments of
Bavaria, Wurtemberg and SaXOny,
which hold fourteen votes in the bundles
rath, will not cooperate in imperial
measures unless the emperor consults
them more OH the general lines of his
policy. Tonight the ReichsanZeiger
has curt, significant disclaimer of the
reported reorganization of the central
ministerial departments. 1t is denied
that the government ever contemplated
increasing the responsibility of the min
listers. The temper of the leading fed
eral governments would not
Brook Any Discussion
of the subject. This made an official
denial of the report necessary. The
reichstag will meet with the various
parties undetermined, awaiting the eff
feet of the government programme be-
fore grouping themselves. The official
record of the composition of the reich
stag after the second ballots is as fol-
lows: Conservatives, 50; Imperialists,
10; National-Liberals, 43: Freiss .nnige.
81; Centrists, 107; Socialists, 35; Volks
Parte, 10: Poles. 16; Guelphs. IL; Reich
ISLANDERS, 10; Anti-Semitics, 5; Dane, 1;
no party, l. One of the chief feat
ures of the moment is the disunion
among the Freisinnige party since
Freisinnige members of the landtag
censured the leadership of Herr Rich
ter as dictatorial and inelastic. The
quarrel has widened. Herr Richter
now leads section of the party in
a basic policy of pure opposition to the
conservative government. Rerren Lac
nal and Rickert, backed by an i'm
portant faction, would coaleSce with the |
advanced Nationals. or even cooperate |
with the government on liberal pro-
posals. In the face of the ex-
pected coalition with the Con-
seryatives, the Imperialists and |
the right wing of the National
liberals are forming reacti0nary