Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-14
A Breezy Budget from the
German Capital.
The Anti-Grain Tariff Agita'
tion Kept Up.
Caprivi's Statistics Inconsistent with
the High Price of Bread.
Comment on the Baccarat Scandal-An
Exciting Libel Suit-Seiffert's
New Trial Postponed.
associated Press Dispatches.

BERLIN, June 13.-[Copyright 1891 by
the New York Associated Press. J-Un
daunted by the overwhelming majority
which supported Chancellor Won Ca
priv on the cereal duties question, the
members of the Freisinnige party, at q
mass meeting, decided to prosecute more
vigorously than ever the anti-grain du-
ties law agitation. Figures published
by the Liberal press, showing that the
stores of cereals in Germany were nearly
exhausted, elected official statistics
given in today's issue of the Riechsan-
zeiger, which aim to prove that the
grain harvest of 1890 was not short, but
on the contrary was better than that
of 1889, being equal to the average
harvest OF the last ten years. hefgures
are admittedly based on rough compu-
tations. They show that the crop of
1890 yielded $3.50, 900 tons of wheat and
5,S77 900 tons of rye, against 1872, 43O
tons of wheat and 5,363, ,426 tons of rye
in the preceding year, and an average OF
2,479, 600 tons of wheat and 4,702,0
tons of rye for the past decade. The
potato crop of 1890 amounted to 23 ,320,
600 tons, against the annual average OF
23,SS4, 900 for the past ten years. A ton
in these statistics signifies 1000 kilo-
grams or 1877 pounds
THE HIGH PRICE OF BREAD.
Allowing that the figures of the
Reichsanzeiger are accurate, the facts
remain that the high price of bread
presses heavily upon the working classes.
The declarations of Chancellor Won Ca
priv that the crops in Germany are in
better condition than generally sup
posed have been contradicted by relia-
BILE reports from several quarters OF the
empire received by telegraph today. In
the meantime memorials from Munich,
Hamburg, Dresden and other centers
reach the chancellor, protesting the ne
cessity of reduction of the tariff on
grain.
The session of the Landtag will be
brought to close next week, when the
Liberal members will carry the agitation
into the country districts.
THE PRINCE OF WALES CONDEMNED.
Military and social circles are equally
amazed at the revelation regarding the
condition of society in England. At all
the military casinoes and clubs the ac-
ton of the prince in the affair is en-
phatically condemned. 1t is impossible,
it is stated, to conceive of high Prus-
sian officer condoning the offense of
cheating or screening person found
guilty of such act. The newspaper press
draw comparisons between the habits of
the prince of Wales and those of EN-
uT.1I;o,,o 90
tion of gambling in the German army
has greatly assisted to check playing for
high stakes.
luding to the relations of the princess of
that she is neglected for a woman of the
demi-monde, and finds her sole consola-
tion in the respect with which the Eng
lish people surround her.
AN EXCITING LIBEL SUIT.
The suit for libel now being tried at
Bochum continues to excite the coun-
try. The prosecution has asked the Es-
sen tribunal to sentence Editor Tuscan
gel to two years and Lunsmann
to one year imprisonment. respect
lively, for accusing Herr Baare,
director of the Bochum iron works and
the friend and financial adviser of
Prince Bismarck, with falsifying in
comes for the purpose of escaping in
come tax. The gravest charge is that
Herr Baare for sixteen years has been
sending out from his works steel rails
which have not been properly tested,
and which bear forgery of the govern
ment stamp. The suspicion that Baare
l.. A1l rF NlxVVr,f
German and French railways with poor
material fraudulently stamped as Off
cially tested, will be set at rest without
an open government inquiry, which
certain officials are accused of trying to
prevent.
A HEBREW EMIGRATION COMMITTEE.
At a conference of Hebrews held here
it has been resolved to form an interna-
tional emigration committee for the pur-
pose of supervising the emigration OF
Jews from Russia Only refugees, who
have been compelled to leave their
homes, will be assisted, and these will
all be sent to their ultimate places of
settlement At these conferences ample
evidence was adduced to show that the
exodus is reaching immense proportions.
1t has little effect upon Germany and
Poland, however, the flood of emigration
tending toward the United States.
n THE CZAR is NON CoMMITTAL.
The post asserts that the French gov
ernment's demand that the czar make a
definite declaration as to the attitude
which he would assume in the event of
a Franco-German war, has obtained
only vague response, committing him
self to nothing.
SEIFFERT WILL YET BE CINCHED.
The new trial which was secured by
Emil Seiffert, the American-German ad-
venturer, who was recently sentenced to
two years imprisonment for defrauding
Mrs. Mcclure, of Detroit, Mich. has
been postponed, pending the arrival Of
Mrs. Mcclure, who has announced by
cable her intention of returning and Civ
ing her testimony against the prisoner.
AMERICAN TOURISTS.
d. 0. Mills, who has been here as
guest of the United States minister to
Germany, Phelps, took his departure
yesterday. Mills will sail fer New York
on July lst,
Mrs. Jos. III. Choate and General
Eyiele. of New York, who had been de-
tained at the American legation here,
have gone to Dresden.
CAMBRIDGE wRANGLERs.