Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-31
CERNANY'S TARIFF ON GRAIN.
Emperor William Desires Further Jnforma-
tOn Before Ordering Reduction.
GoSS P ON CONCERNING THE REICHsTAG
Italy Will Adhere to the Drcibund -
Intense Feeling Against Russia
Because OF Persecution
of the jews.

BERLIN, May 30 Emperor William, before
| deciding on raduction or temporary sus.
! pension of the duties on grain, asked DR.
! Won BoGttichcr, secretary of the imper i
home Office, to submit to him a report of the
crop prospects and upon the general economic
position bearing upon the question. The
ministerial council viii meet tomorrow to
take uehuite action touching the matter. The
ministers maintain the utmost reserve, but 1t
is the official conviction tonight that there
will be neither n reduction nor suspension
Of the duties before the commercial treaty
between Germany and Austria Hungary
comes in force
The Cologne Gazette states that the gov
ernment will declare it's decision on Monday
Lobby gossip has it that the landtag will
fix the opening Of a special session of the
reichstag for June ii, but this report is in
direct variance with the belief IL ministerial
circles.
The commission appointed by the govern
ment to consider the matter of grain supplies
has not yet completed its inquiry,
though a preliminary report has been
supplied by the miaiStcrS in order to assist
them in their deliberations. Only the most
urgent necessity will cause the couYening of
the relchStag. a discussion of the grain
tariffs question would open the whole qucs-
llOll, pcuullR Tue NEGOTIATIONS LOT Il treaty Oh
commerce with Austria, and would force the
government to awkward disclosures which
might assist Prince Bismarck in forming the
opposition coalition which ne is now actively
at work constructing.
Herr BlCCherOder, the well known banker,
visited Frieduchsrue Oh Thursday TO consult
with Prince Bismarck regarding the ex-
pccted action of the government.
The prOgeSSiSt press announces that Prince
Bismarck will appear in the reiChstag and
"A t.tri fG nd
predicts that the prince will certainly meet
with humiliatlns defeat, hardly n score
of the members will support him. In the
absence of accurate information to how
the prince would deal with a possible grain
famine the prediction is futile.
The conservatives admit that a temporary
reduction of the tariffs may be advisable
The German (cehuist concludes an
angelic protest against a permanent diminu-
ton of the duties by similar admission.
The organs of the agragrain party generally
deny that there Is any present necessity for
dealing with the tariff. but admit reluctantly
that there is possibility that the govern
mcnt will be compelled to intervene.
The position may be Sumed up as follows
If the ministers declare that u semi-famine is
impending no party will dare to oppose
measures of relief.
The Post scmi-otficially announces that the
Marquis di Rudini the Italian premier, has
formally communicated TO the German and
Austrian governments the determination of
Italy to adhere to the dreibund.
Pu bic indignation against Russia because
of that governments treatment of the Jews
is becoming 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 daily at the Charlotteburg station in
absolute destitution. Those exiles are met at
the station by OreligiouSitcs. who supply
them with food and clothing and little
money and procure for them passes to Lon
don or New York
A letter from Mr. Gladstone reprinted
here, affirming that the czar does not know
of the horrors inflicted upon his Jewish sub.
iects differs utterly from the facts 1t ought
TO be universally understood that the repre-
sentatives of the Memberships, Bleicherod-
ers and Frankfort ROthschllds were sent
through sure channel and were placed in
the hands of the car and obtained reading a
month ago
A statement was presented to NJ. DePoboe-
douoStzoff, chief of the holy synod of Russia
simply asking that measures be adopted for
the mitigation of the lot of the expelled
Hebrews, and similar memorial was
presented to NJ. DeGiers, the Russian
minister of foreign affairs, but il was un-
avaling. The truth is that the czar is him
self the chief instigator of tho increasing
severity practiCed upon the Jews. His
maieStys brother, Grand Duke Sergius, who
is now governor of Moscow, is willing in
strument for the carrying out of the brutal
treatment of the Jews. Jewish advces from
st. Petersburg 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 meeting of national liberals TO be held
tomorrow, for the purpose of attempting to
prepare a new programme, threatens to re-
suit in Il split
The party organs in discussing the pollti-
cal situation, differ widely rs to the platform
to be adopted. The National Zetuug de.
clareS that the party cannot follow Prince
Bismarck unless he renOuuCes his opposition
to the government.
The Liberal Correspondence, the mouth
piece of the leading members of the party
admits that the meeting tomorrow will prob
ably not result in anything beyond an ex-
change of ideas and that no common plat
form is meantime probable.
The Saae Ieitung states that Count Won
Moltke, just prior TO his death, concluded an
exhaustive study of European armaments
ending with the assertion that France WAS
ready for war and Russia nearly so and that
a great conflict could not be delayed beyond
1892. Count Won Moltke submitted his views
to the emperor during his last visit to Lubbock
Hon William Walter Phelps, the United
States minister to Germany, has obtained
for Mr.. Frank Vincent, an American trav-
eler, letter from the German minister of
foreign affairs, iustructing German officers
in Africa to assist him in every possible way.
MesSrS Walter and Frank Damrosch and
George Busen and family were entertained
at dinner Yesterday evening by Mr.. Phelps.
Miss Geraldine Morgan, the American violin
ist, Miss Curre Duke, Courtland Palmer and
other artists were present.
Kate Stauloy's buresque company opened
tonight at the Concordia theatre in "Nuust
Up to Date The military ballet was per-
formed in Prusslan uniforms and several
songs were sung in German. The house was
Gro Nded and the entertainment proved to be
a success.
The first picture by an American artist sold
al thointernntionaI art exhibition is Mossler's