The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-13
TAINTED WITH OAEsARISM.
Williams Rule Too Autocratic for the
German Federal States.

Copyrighted 1890 by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, April 2-Immediately upon
his return from Weisebaden Emperor
William viii hold a series of prolonged
conferences with the heads of the various
departments, Chancellor Won Caprivi
Baron Won Berlepsch and Baron For
Biebersteln, successfully. 1t Is reported
to be the determination OF the emperor tC
enforce rigid scrutiny over every meas
ure, besides overlooking himself with work
in the meantime, and thus threatens tC
paralyZe ministerial work.
None of the bills based on the
decisions of the labor conference
and prepared by Baron Won Ber
lepsch have yet received the final
imperial sanction. The assent of the
bundrath to the measures is doubtful. The
federal governments do not share the en-
perOr's eager haste for reforms. The pros
pect Is therefore that when the emperor
opens the relchStag, in his speech from the
throne announcing the labor measures he
viii speak without the quality of definite
ness, which characterized the announce
ments OF the Bismarck regime. Beyond
the pregnant fact that the reichstag viii
be asked to grant military credit of prob
ably SO,GO0,OJ0 marks nothing IS known OF
the governments program. The progress
siye press indulges in of vision
change in the tariff policy,
a reduction of the duties on cereals and
progressive notifications OF the customs
so as TO abolish the taxation on the articles
that are absolutely necessary for the use OF
the people and a simultaneous adoption
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 re-
forms in the whole financial and fiscal sys-
tenn of the empire.
Already the leading federal princes of
the empire, incredulous of the emperor's
capacity and scared by his methods of gov
ernlng. are trying TO tone down his
self cOnceit. It is an open secret
that the governments of Bava-
ria, Wurtemberg and SaXOny, which hold
fourteen votes in the bundeSrath, viii not
cooperate in imperial measures unless the
emperor cOnSUlts them more on the gener-
al lines of his policy. The reichstag will
meet with the various parties Undeter-
mined awaiting the effect of the govern
ment program before grouping themselves.
The official records of the composition of
the reichstag after the second ballots is as
follows: Conservatives, u; ImperialiStS,
10: National Liberals, 43: Freisinnige "a;
Centrists, 107; Socialists, 35; Volkspartic,
10; Poles, 16, Guelphs, Il; Reichlanders, 10;
anti-Semities, 10; Dane, l: no party, l.
The Post announces that the military
bill will provide for large increase in the
number of troops. The announcement
agrees with the opinion held in official
circles that the emperor will abide by a
strong foreign policy. The chief subject
of the recent conferences of the command
ing generals which were presided over by
the emperor was the organization of the
reserves and landwehr with a view to
strengthening them.
At 3 O'Clock this afternoon Mr.. Phelps,
the United States minister, Sir r. b.
Malet, the British ambassador, and Mar
shal Won Biebenstein, German imperial
foreign secretary, met at the foreign Office
and each deposited formal ratification Of
the Samoan treaty and signed the final
protocol.
Court advices from st. Petersburg are
that the movement in favor of a cOustitu-
ton finds adherentS in the cars circle
The Grand Duke Vladimir, the cars
brother, induced less by liberalism than
by fears of a revolution. heads minis
terial section that is urging the ear to
create parliament consisting of repre-
of the nobility elected by the
Zemtsvos, with a limited number of dele
gates elected. The cars repungnauce 10
paIliaments is reported as giving way
under the belief that the establishment Of
a parliament would put an end to attempts
on his life.