The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-31
TARIFF ON GRAIN.
A Subject of Much Concern in Germany at
Present,

A Subject of Much Concern in Germany at
Present.
ICopyright, 1891. New York Associated Press. |
BERLIN. May 3O.-Emperor William, be-
fore deciding upon the reduction or tenn
porary suspension of duties en- grains,
asked Won Boettich, secretary of the i'm
perial home Office, to submit to him re-
port upon crop prospects and upon general
economic positions bearing upon the ques-
ton. The ministerial council will meet
Monday to take definite action touching
the matter. The ministers maintain the
utmost reserve, but it is the official e0nvic-
tion tonight that there will be neither re-
duction nor suspension of duties before the
commercial treaty between Germany and
Austro-Hungary comes in force. The
Cologne Gazette states that the govern
ment will declare it's decision on Monday.
Lobby gossip has it that the landtag will
fix the opening Of the special session of the
reichstag for June II, but this report is in
direct variance with the belief in ministe-
rial circles. The commission appointed by
the government to consider the matter of
grain supplies has not vet completed its in-
quiry, though a preliminary report has
boen supplied by it to the ministers in or
der to assist them in their deliberations.
Only the most urgent necessity will cause
the convening of the reichstag. The dis
cussion of grain tariff questions would open
the whole question of the pending neeotia-
tions on treaty of commerca. and would
force the government to awkward disclo-
sures, which might assist Prince Bismarck
in forming the opposition coalition which
he ia now actively at work constructing.
The progressist press announce that Bis
marck will appear i'll the reichstag and
oppose the reduction of grain tariffs and
predicts that the prince will certainly meet
with humiliating defeat, as hardly score
,k>nr rx-t1i
tives admit that temporary reduction of
tariffs may be advisable. The Germania,
contrist organ, concludes an energetic pro-
test against the permanent dimnnition of
duties. Orators Of the agrarian party gen.
orally deny that there is any present neees
sity for dealing with the tariff, but admit
reluctantly that there is n possibility that
the government will be compelled to inter
vene. The po,tion may be summed mp As
follows: If the ministers declare Il semi
famine impending no party will dare to op-
pose measures of relief.
The Post semi. officially announces that
Marquis di Rudini. Italian premier has
formally communicated to the German and
Austrian governments the determination of
Italy to adhere TO the dreibund.
Public indignation against Russia be-
cause of the treatmoat of Jews is becoming
more intense. Residents of this city have
ocular evidence of the condition of Hebrews
who are being driven from Russia, in tho
hundred or more of exiles who arrive daily
lat Chnrlottenburg station in absolute desti-
tuition. Tho lsttor from Gladstone affirm
ling that the czar does not know of the hor-
rors inflicted upon his Jewish subjects,
differs utterly from the facts. Tho truth
is the czar is himself chief instigator of the |
seventies praotced upon Jews
and his majesty. Grand Duke Sergius |
now governor of Moscow, 10 his willing in
strument for carrying out this brutal treat
Mlent. jewish adyices from st. Petersburg |
aud Moscow concur in the statement that !