Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-22
RUSSIAN REPRISAL.
A Purpose Behind the Wheat
Export Ukase.
The Czar Playing Even With
Germany.
Failure to Secure Loan in Berlin
Warmly Resented.
The FIssco OF the French Syndicate in
Making Loan Has Increased the
Financial Difficulties
of Russia.
Associated Press pispatches.

Associated Press DISPATCHES.
BERLIN, Nov. 2l.-[Copyrighted by the
New York Associated Press. THE pa
pers OF this city tonight associate the
Russian ukase prohibiting the export OF
wheat and wheat products, with the
failure OF the overtures of Vishnegradsky,
Russian finance minister, to Berlin
fnanciers to reopen the German market
to Russian loans. The financial houses
have again been in consultation with
the government, and the Kreuz Zeitung
states that this time the government
definitely intimated that the guarantee
offered by Russia did not suffice to JUS
tify the official approval OF German
credit being ventured in loans. 1t is
understood that diplomatic approaches
through Count Won Schouvaloff, Russian
ambassador, received an equally decisive
rebuff.
The fiasco which the French syndicate
made of the last Russian loan has enor-
mously increased the financial difficult
ties OF Russia. Vishnegradsky has
been forced to relieve the syndicate
of eight out OF twenty million pounds
denied that the Rothschilds have taken
over five million pounds is partly true.
Bonds amounting to G8,000,000 have
been placed in the Rothschilds's keep
ing, with no responsibility attached to
their future issue through the firm, and
the French syndicate is relieved OF
burden of $4,000, 900 sterling, which the
Russian treasury hoped to receive.
Thus Russia, instead of having realized
G16,000, 900 on loans, obtains only co.
100000. H
The refusal OF the German govern
ment to permit bankers to bolster up
Russian credit, ends for long time to
come the chances of Russia borrowing
money abroad, and strengthens the
chances of peace.
A statement published by the St. Pc
tersburg Official Messenger, on the con-
dition OF the imperial finances and its
relation to the famine, was telegraphed
here tonight, as an authoritative declara-
tion, aiming to minimize the dan
gers OF the situation. The state
ment begins by announcing that
the stocks of grain, after the prohi-
bition of export will be sufficient for the
population until the next harvest. As
the people in the agricultural districts
depend on the sale of grain, they will
find their position embarrassing, and
the government has therefore assigned
to them 5000 900 roubles from the cash
reserves in the treasury The reserves
amount to 220,000,000 roubles, which
sum is sufficient to meet the redemption
of the debt for the current year, aud all
expenditures, and still leave cash bal
ance equal to the needs of 1892. 1t is
denied that there is any likelihood that
the treasury will be required to purchase
gold abroad, unless such course is
necessitated by the flowing back of Rus
sian securities to Russia. The gold re-
serve amounts to 86, 800, 900 roubles in
the treasury. and I20, 100000 roubles in
the imperial bank, besides 75,000,000
secured by the recently issued provis-
ional credit notes. These totals do not
include the receipts from the last loan.
The sum of the Official Messengers
statement is that Russia has plenty OF
grain and abundance of money for the
time being. This is reassuring to the
Russians who are under the scare of the
famine. This class includes. Count
Tolstoi. the great social reformer, who
had published an energetic demand for
the government to declare without de-
lay whether the stock of grain were suf-
ficient to last through the next summer.
Count Tolstoi advocates the purchase of
corn in America in time to protect the
country from famine and the terrible
social disturbances certain to attend
such condition Of affairs. Tolstoi con-
tends from his own personal calculation
that the stock of grain will not be suffi-
cient, and the governments reply guar
anteeing enough to feed the people until
next harvest. if falsified, will lead to q
revolution in which Tolstoi says he will
aid.
Count Tolstoi's daughters have opened
free refectory for the famine stricken
near his chateau.
A fresh instance of the hostility en-
tertained in st. Petersburg for the Ger
man element has been given. An order
was issued today forbidding persons to
practice as lawyers in the Baltic Prov
inces, unless OF Russian extraction.
Many Germans are thus debarred.
Emperor William gave state dinner
tonight in the new palace at Potsdam,
in celebration of his mothers birthday.
Nelson P. Cook, who claims to repre-
sent Boston newspaper syndicate, was
arrested here, and claims trial, charged
with fraud, by the proprietors of the
Pfaff Minerva hotel, where he lived for
month without any financial resources.
Cook states that he started from Boston
with cent in his possession, to work
his way around the world.
Mark Twain today gave luncheon to
Mrs. General Hancock, Hon. w. Walter
Phelps, the American minister, and
other notable Americans.