St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26

stand that the legislative power had a
warm heart for their just interests, and
tnat satisfactory Improvement in their
position could be attained only by the
preservation of order and upon the path
of peaceful and lawful progress. 1t was
his urgent wish and hope that the next
reichstag would be enabled, by acting
IN concert with the governments of the
Federal states, TO give an effective legal
form to the amelioration necessary in
this field. He regarded it as his most
earnest and exalted task to labor to-
ward the fulfilmenI of this hope by the
abolition of the contributions to the
widows and orphands' fund. Officials
III the service of the government would
obtain the main benefit, which was not
to be undervalued, though it might not
suffice to
SATISFY THE JUST WISHES
of less favOrably situated classes of
officials. Moreover, by vote of the
federal governments the reichstag
would be enabled to afford a pledge of
improvement in the position of middle
class officials at an early date. He con-
cluded by saying that in his own name
and that of the exalted federal govern
ment he thanked the deputies for their
faithful and labOrious work and hoped
for the continued peace and prosperity
of the Fatherland, and that the content
of the people proceeding therefrom
mig mt be the reichstag's most welcome
reward for its labOrs. The absence
from the speech Of all political al
lusiOns and the failure to make
any. mention whatever Of the So
cialist bill surprised every one.
The ceremony was conducted with all
the in1nprial form litiaC In tho aOurt
gallery. The empress was present with
the Crown Prince Frederick William
and her second son William Eitel
Frederick. The emperor wore the uni
form OF the guards. The deputies
cheered the passages relating to the
old age and infirmity assurance law and
the emperOr'S expression of the desire
for further legislation for ameliorating
the condition of the workingmen. The
foreign officers were disappointed and
somewhat annoyed to learn of the pub
LEGATION in New York of the text of the
Samoan treaty, and Immediately de-
termined to request the consent of the
treaty powers to carry out the original
intention that the three governments
should now publish the text simultane-
ously. Mr.. Phelps called at the foreign
office on Tuesday and expressed his re-
greet at the
SURREPTITI0US PUBLICATION
of the treaty. He explained that as the
senate was now in possession of the
treaty it alone had the right to release
the obligation'of secrecy. Still, in view
of the fact of publication. the United
States, he said, would not object if Ger
many and Great Britain officially issued
the text of the treaty. 1t was therefore
arranged that the document should ap-
pear at once in the Reichsanzeiger and
In the London Gazette. The treaty has
met with hostile criticism from papers
of all parties. The Kreuz Zeitung COM
plains that although two-thrds of the
foreigners in Samoa are German and
fOur-fifthS OF the trade is German, yet
Germany is given no dominant infiu-
treaty a blow in the face of Ger
man interests. The Germans, it
says, holding the trade of the island
are placed in the same position
as the little band of Americans.
The Hamburg strike is over, the men
having accepted the ship owners pro-
poSal restoring wages to IS marks per
month. The country around Cassel and
Fulda is flooded. Part of Cassel is sub
merged. The rain falls in increasing
torrents. The Werra, Elder and Lain
have overlooked their banks. The
Maine and Rhine are rapidly rising, and
many districts of Central Germany are
deluged. The emperor's reference to
the trade guilds in the speech from the
throne has occasioned much surprise.
1t is inferred from that the bundesrath
has approved the bill introduced and
supported by the conservatives and
clericals proposing to confer certificates
of capacity upon individual workmen.
The Volksblatt says the socialist dep
uties have used all their influence to
avert the strike of coal miners in the
Ruhr district.