The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
He is not in Harmony With Some
Of the German States.
HE WILL NOT LIVE TEN YEARS
thorities-His Foreign Policy-The
Mckinley Bill in Berlin.

BERLIN, April r. Copyright, 1890, by
New York Associated Press. -Immedi-
ately upon his return from Weisbaden,
Emperor William will hold series of pro
longed conferences with the heads of the
various departments: Chancellor Won
Caprivi, Baron Won Burlepsch and Baron
Won Beiderstein successfully. 1t is re-
ported to be the determination of the En-
peror to exercise rigid personal scrutiny
over every measure. Besides overlooking
himself with work he in the meantime
threatens to paralyze ministerial work
None of the bills based on the de-
cisions of the labor conference and
proposed by Berlepsch has re-
ceived the final imperial sane
tion. The assent of the Bundesrath to the
measures is doubtful. The federal govern
ments do not share the Emperor's eager
haste for reforms. The prospect is, there
fore, that when the Emperor opens the
reichstag, in the speech from the throne
announcing his labor measures, he will
speak without the quality of defniteness
which characterized the announcements of
the Bismarck regime. Beyond the preg-
nant fact that the reichstag will be asked
to grant military credit of probably
$4,000, 600 marks nothing is known of the
governments programme. The Progress
slsts press INDUCES in visions OF a
change in the tariff policy, a reduction
OF the duties on cereals, and progressive
notifications of the customs so as to
abolish the tax on articles that are abso-
Lutte necessaries for the people, and that
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develop the industries 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 re-
vision of the tariff which would invole
complete reforms in the whole
financial and fiscal system of the
empire. Already the leading federal
princes of the empire, incredulous of the
Emperors capacity and methods of govern
ing, are trying to tone down his self-con-
tidence. 1t is an open secret that the gov
ernments of Bavaria, Wurtemburg and
SaXony will not cooperate in any of the
EmperorS measures unless the Emperor
consults them more on the general lines of
his policy. One of the chief features of
the movement is the disunion in the
Freisinnige party. Since the F'reisin-
nige matter the landtag has cen
sured the leadership of Richter as
dictatorial and inelastic in the face
Of the expected coalition with the Conser-
vatives, lmperialists and the right wing of
the National Liberals, who are forming a
reactionary group against liberal policy by
government, the F'reisinnige party will be
compelled to close their ranks The Social
ist leaders have momentary feud oyerthe
workmen's proposed celebration May l.
The police have given warning that they
will not tolerate any street demonstration.
The Post announces that the military bills
provide for large increase in the number
Of troops. The announcement agrees with
the opinion that the Emperor will abide by
a strong foreign policy.
This afternoon the United States minis
ter and the British and German represen-
tatives deposited the formal ratification of
the Samoan treaty and signed the final
protocol
Court advices from st. Petersburg are
that movement in favor of constitution
finds adherents in the Cars circles. Grand
Duke Vladimir, the Cars brother, leads
the ministerial section urging the Car to
create parliament, consisting of repre-
sentatives of the nobility elected by the
zemtsvos, with a limited number of dele
gates elected by the towns. The Cars re-
pugnance to parliaments is reported wear
ing away, under the belief that the
establishment of parliament would put
an end to the attempts on his life.