Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28


that Minister Reid and M Ribot had ne
gotiated for a reciprocity arrangement be-
tween France and the United States. BY
some easy concessions on German exports
to this country it is believed Minister
Phelps will be able to secure the opening of
the German market to American pork.
rCoPYRIGHT, 1890 BY THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREss.l
BERLIN, September 27.-The complete
report of Herr Miguel, Prussian Minister of
Finance, will be presented to the Emperor
on Tuesday. Combined information re-
ceived from the German Embassy in Paris
that NJ. Ribot, the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, had negotiated with
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, the American
Minister, for a reciprocity arrangement
between France and the United States has
summarily settled the project of Count
Kalnoky, the Austro- Hungarian Prime
Minister, for combined reprIsals against the
United States in retaliation for the McKin-
ley tariff bill.
Emperor William never entertained the
idea of reprisals. Chancellor Won Caprivl
appears TO have dallied with the project
until the Emperor's return from the
maneuvers when the suggestion of the
semi-official press here and in Vienna for
customs coalition suddenly ceased.
RECIPROCITY WITH GERMANY.
Chancellor Won Caprivi had conference
with Herr Miguel aud accepted his scheme
to lessen the cost of living to the masses by
higher imports on the moneyed classes, the
principle involving the early reopening of
the German market to American pork. The
official impression here is that Minister
Phelps overtures for a settlement, backed
bv some easy concessions on German ex-
ports to the United States, will find ready
response from Chancellor Won Caprivi.
Advices from Vienna indicate that the
Austrian Government also accepts the prin-
ciple o reciprocity, Count Kalnoky having
instructed the Austrian Minister at Wash
iuCton to make representations in the mat
ter of pearl and other Austrian industries
affected by the Mckinley bill, with a view
to the negotiation OF a treaty.
MILITARY REFORMS.
Herr Miquels financial statements have
also decisively Influenced military reforms
and led to the retirement Of General Verdv
Du Veruois from the War Ministry. and
the professed resignation of General Count
Won Waldersee, both of whom urged
Emperor William TO adopt Scharnhorst's
pm 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.
General Du Vernols, believing that the
Emperor would assent, announced in the
committee Of the Reichstag last session the
Scharnhorst schedule as adopted. Herr
AIiquei's calculations proved that the carry
,11r n Cobarnbo r,lau op6 budoot
$4,000, 900 marks would render the
Kaiser's aims in the direction of social
ameliOration hopeless. Despite the popu-
larity OF the ScharnhGrSt scheme in the mil
itdry circle, The Chancellor has thrown the
whole weight of his influence against ad-
ding TO the war budget.
A SILENT PRESS.
The Emperor's defnitive approval of the
MIGUEL ideas made the retirement of Gen
eral Verdv Du Nernois and General Count
Won Waldersee inevitable.
The semi-oficial press maintains silence
in regard TO the renewal Of the triple al
lance A communication published in the
PeStber Lloyd announced that an agree
meut had been obtained. The scope o. the
agreement is in the meantime withheld from
the public. The communication adds thai
the strengthening of the alliance has been
fully achieved.
The preparations against Socialist mani
feStations on October are equal to the con-
tingencies of civil war. The police have
been ordered to act on a mobilized system,
and have been reinforced in every populous
center where il is supposed they will be-
quired. The troops will be kept in readi-
ness in their barracks. The committees OF
the Socialists ridicule the expectation of an
l-,ou-i,,rr ba s. Il,
the arrangements.
SOCIALISTIC PROCEEDINGS.
There will be no public mass demonstra-
tion. Delegates from the Berlin committee
will await the arrival at the stations of
number OF the Socialists who were expelled,
% OF whom have signIfied their intention of
returning out Of the several hundred who
were expelled. They will be conducted to
q reception room, where thev will be well
coined and banquet given to them. A
number OF congratulatory speeches Will be
made.
Several extremists will be excluded from
the proceedings in 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 expira.
ION OF the repression law. Great assemblies
will gather here, in Leipsic, Hamburg and
Frank ort but everywhere they will be
organized to preclude disorder or a breach
OF the law.
BIsMARCK's MOVEMENTS.
The Centerist papers announce that this
will be IN oupOrtune time to issue a state
ment on social questions, signed by all the
Catholic shops in Prussia.
Lord Roseberry and Count Herbert Bis
marc6 arrived here to-day from Friedrichs-
ruhe, where Lord Roseberry has been So
journing Tor several days. He obtained
from Prince Bismarck a promise that he
would visit Scotland in the spring If the
political situation permitted. In letters to
several members of the Herrenhaus, Bis
mark states mis- intention to attend all de-
bates on questions of national Importance.
The BTeStaueT Zeitang, in the report of
an interview with the eX-Chancellor. made |
him say that he is still Vice President of |
the Staatsrath, holding an unmovable posi- |
ton. Semi-ofhcial communications affirm |
that the office In question was held bv virtue |
OF has otncial functions, and that it ceased |
on the day his resignation from the Chan |
celery was accepted. The point debatable |
is whether Bismarck's honorary rank |
qualities him for the Staatsrath.
DECAYED NOBILITY.
The recent scandals involving members of |
the aristocracy are gravely discussed by the |
press and are the theme of guarded pulpit /
allusions. The KreuSe Zeitung mourns the |
decadence of the nobility and warns its |
members that they must lead better life if |
they do not wish to provoke the masses to
revolution. The Gernaanid, on the other