The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-31
Bismarck Cannot Prevent the
Reduction of Duties.
ITALY JOINS THE NEW LEAGUE
The Car Himself Instigated the Per-
secution of the Jews.
His Fiendish Brother Personally Directs
the Outrages In Moscow-The Berinr
Sea Bili-Countess Clancarty, Song
and Dance Lady, Under Contract.

BERLIN, May 30.-TAssociated Press.
Copyrighted, 1891. emperor William, be-
fore deciding upon reduction or tempor.
ary suspension of the duties on grains,
asked Won Boetticher, secretary of the i'm
perial home Office, to submit to him re-
port upon crop prospects and upon the
general economic position bearing upon
the question. The ministerial council will
meet tomorrow to take action touching the
matter. The ministers maintain the ut
most reserve, but it is the official convic-
tion that there will be neither reduction
nor suspension of duties before the COM
mercial treaty between Germany and Aus
tro- Hungary comes in force. The CoLogne
Gdsctts states that the government will de-
clare its decision on Monday.
Lobby gossip has it that the landtag will
ix the opening of the special session of
the reichstag for June IL, but this report
Is In direct variance with the belief in
ministerial circles. The commission ap-
pointed by the government to consider
the matter OF grain supplies has not yet
completed its inquiry, though pre-
nminary report has been supplied by it to
the ministers in order to assist them in
their deliberations. Only the most urgent
necessity will cause the converting of the
reichstag
Discussion Of the grain tariff questions
would open the whole question of the
pending negotiation of treaty of COM
merce with Austria, and would force the
government to awkward disclosures which
might assist Prince Bismarck in forming
the opposition coalition which he is now
actively at work constructing. The pro-
gressionist press announce that Bismarck
will appear in the reichstag and oppose re-
duction of the grain tariffs, and predicts
that the prince will certainly meet
with humiliating defeat, as hardly
score of members will sup
port him. The conservatives admit
that temporary reduction of tariffs may
be advisable. The Germanid, Centrist or
gan, makes an energetic protest against
permanent dimlnution of the duties The
orators of the agrarian party generally
deny that there Is any necessity for deal
ing with the tariff, but admit reluctantly
that there is possibility that the govern
ment will be compelled to intervene. The
position may be summed up as follows:
If the ministers declare a semi-fsmine is
impending no party will dare to oppose
measures of relief.
AhC 4 Vst oAuOunCcb tudb
the Marquis di Rudini, the Italian
premier, has formally communicated to
the German and Austrian governments
the determination of Italy to adhere to
he dreibund.
Public indignation against Russia be-
cause of the treatment of the Jews is be-
coming more intense. Residents of this
city have ocular evidence of the condition
of the Hebrews who are. being driven from
Russia in the hundreds or more of exiles
who arrive at Charlottenburg in absolute
destitution.
The letter from Gladstone affirming that
the czar does not know of the horrors in
ficted on Jews differs utterly from the
facts. The truth is that the czar is him
self the chief instigator of the increasing
seventies practiced upon the Jews, and
his majesty's brother, the Duke Sergius,
now governor of Moscow, is willing in
strument for the carrying out of the brutal
treatment. Jewish advices from st. Peters
burg and Moscow concur in the statement
that the most powerful influences have
been brought to bear upon the car, but
that the condition of the Jews is hopeless.
The Sdalc Zeitung states that Won
Moltke, just prior to his death, concluded
an exhaustive study of the European
armaments, ending with the assertion
that France was ready for war and Russia
nearly so, and that the great conflict
could not be delayed beyond 1892.