Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05

tention Of wiping out Austria. This natu-
rally causes great anxiety in that country.
The triple alliance is looked upon as inse-
cure. Silesian miners claim that imported
laborers are forcing them to the verge of
starvation.
TCoPYRIGHT, 1890, By THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PRESS.l
BERLIN, January 4.-The State Council
is convened for Wednesday next. Prince
Bismarck, though still suffering from a re-
eurrence OF his neuralgia attack, is certain
to be present. The assembling of the
Reichstag for the last eventful days
before dissolution, and the reopening
of the Landtag compels this general minis
terial meeting. The leading questions be-
fore the Reichstag will be the increase of
the military credits and the Socialist bill
The National Zeitung reminds the Cartel
party that the time is opportune for grand
rally around the Chancellor. and urges
them not to fail to appear in their places on
the first day.
Prince Bismarck's Iong-expected declara-
tion on the foreign policy oTthe Government
will probably be made during the debate on
the military credits. The attitude of the
Government on the Socialist bill is inhe1-
ible.
NO COMPROMISE PROBABLE.
The National Liberals have been hopeful
that Prince Bismarck would, upon the eve of
the second reading, accent such modifica-
tiOns as would enable them to vote with the
Government without violating their scruples
touching the arbitrary aspects OF the meas
ure, but hitherto the semi-official organs
have merely advised all members of the
Government groups to stand together for a
solid vote.
Some topics involving delicate phases of
government servise and likely to be excit-
ing, will come before the Landtag. One of
these will be a consideration of the disposi-
tion of the sums confscate5 during the
Kulturkampf and diverted into the secret
service fund. Within recent years the
reptile fund" has been so little used that
the name of it sounds almost ancient. But
few papers are subsidized and fewer agents
are maintained.
LOTTERY PROJECTS NOT FAVORED.
The ventilation Of the subject in the
Dandtag is likely to curtail, in an even
greater degree, the executive misuse of those
moneys. 1t is also thought that the Land
tag will disapprove the lottery project in
regard to the monument OF Emperor Will
IAN. The purchase and demolition of GER
tain houses in order to make site for
the monument are necessary, and the
project of raising the money for the pur-
pose by lottery, while it is no doubt one
form of making a popular subscription, is
form not much approved by public opinion.
It is believed the Landtag will favor the
plan of direct purchase, the money to be
voted by the State.
The year opens with a universal peace
chorus, the National ZeitUng declaring that
external tranquility is guaranteed. while
internal tranquility depends entirely on the
character of the next Reichstag, so that the
nation can vote for peace BY voting into
Office Chamber so subservient to
THE WILL OF THE CHANCELLOR
that it shall never cause any irritation BY
differing with him, and yet despite this
lovely prospect of peace abroad and at
home, upon defined conditions, the Foreign
Office itself was never So pervaded by sense
of the insecurity of the continuance of the !
triple alliance. Prince Bismsrck's refusal
to support Austria's policy in Bulgaria is
great source of irritation and suspicion, and
Signor Crispi's persistent intriguing for the |
cession of Trentino is another.
Crispi is thought to be little disappoint- |
ed just now. He had counted upon another |
conference at Friedrichsruhe at the close of |
Prince Bismarck, who holds those tavors at |
a high rate. and who advised Crispi that the |
interview would not be timely in view of |
the acute jealousies of Austria. The DirettO |
has since urged the direct settlement OF the |
Trentino affair with Austria, and abandon |
ing the attitude of complete reliance upon |
Prince Bismarck's mediation.
ANXIETY IN AUSTRIA.
The progress of the negotiations for the
meeting of Emperor William and the Gar
on the Polish frontier in April intensifes
the official anxiety and watchfulness in
Austria. In diplomatic circles there is a
lively discussion of the prospect of re-
newal of the German entente with Russia.
AS Prince Bismarck continues to find the
want of homogeneity in the Austrian EN-
pire, and the growing discord between its
various nationalities an obstacle of good
politics, and sees how greatly these reduce
the value of an AUS cian alliance, it is said
that he already contamplates a very radical
change of base in his policy, and speculates
upon a large appij: :tion of the idea of races
that was the basis of so many schemes
and projects at the period when Alsace and
Lorraine were annexed to Germany.
A MAGNIFICENT PROJECT
His new application of the theory of
bringing all German-speaking people under
the German flag would be at the expense of
Austria and at the expense of Russia, but for
Russia there would be eompensations. The
policy, in fact, would wipe out Austria as
that empire now stands, for Germany would
take the Austro-German duchies; and, while
Germany would also get the German Baltic
provinces now held bv Russia, Russia would
get an equivalent in Galicia and Bukowina,
and would be given a free hand in Rou-
mania and the Balkan countries
The Austrian Government knows that |
this is not merely a diplomatic dream, but
is one of the present possibilities of the
Chanceilor's policy, and may become a
probability if the race feuds now pervading
the Empire, combined with hostility to Ger
many, shall force the Chancellor to project
alliances elsewhere.
AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM.
The German Czech Conference opened in
Vienna to-day. 1t is watched here as hav-
ing an indirect, yet important bearing upop
the international relations. Count Taaffe,
who presides, is not personally hopeful of
success in reconciling the differences between
the German and Czech parties in Bohemia. |
Besides the German delegates, headed bv
PIeur, and the Czechs, headed BY Rieger and
Prince Lobkowitz, there were present Min
lister Won Gautsc Schoenborn, Baron.
Prazak and Prince SchoeDborg. heabsence
of any representatives of the young Czechs
will weaken whatever agreement may be
reached. Count Taaffe has secretly induced
the old Czechs to accept a compromise.
Pleur wants nothing less than the full de-
mands of the German party, as presented
already in the Bohemian Diet before their
Unless these are conceded, and
there is given, some guarantee against a
coalition of the two Czech parties, the Ger
mans will not re-enter the Diet. The Czechs
are impotent through their quarrels. If
left alone they would coalesce. 1t is i'm
probable that Count Taafe can conduct the
case to solution that will be the basis of
permanent peace between these factions.
MINERS PETITION FOR RELIEF.
The Silesian Miners Society has petit
toned the Emperor to appoint q commission
Df inquiry into their condition. They de-