Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-14
WHAT BERLIN KNOWS
THE GERMAN cEREAL-pUrIEs oUEs-
TON STILL A BURNING ONE.
The Weather Against the Government.
Position-EnSiapd's Baccarat ReveIa-
tions-Prussia's Superior Virtue.
copyrighted 1891 by tho New York Associated


cereal duties question IN the Landtag, the
members Of the Freissnige party last eve
ning held mass-meeting. at which the
party leaders amid fervid acclamations
announced their intention of prosecuting
more vigorously than ever the anti-grain-
duties-law agitation.
ALLEGED OFFICIAL STATISTICS.
The figures published by the Liberal
press showing that the stores of cereals in
germany were nearly exhausted elected
the official statistics given in tO-day's issue
OF the ReichSdnzager. which aim to prove
that the grain harvest Of 1890 was not
| snort. but on the contrary was better than
that OF 1889, beng equal 20 the average
! harvest OF the last ten years. The figures
are admittedly based on rough computa-
tiOns.
GBADGRINDILE FACTS.
They show that the crop of 1890 yielded
2,s3JOOO tons of wheat and 5.S77. 900 tons of
| rye against 2,872dl3 tons Of wheat and
| 1853, 4Z6 tons of rye in the preceding year,
| and an average of 2,479,0O0 tons of wheat
and 5,702,0O0 tons of rye for the past de-
cade. The potato crop Of 1890 amounted
10 23,320.000 tons against an annual average
| OF 23,S84, 900 tons for the past ten years.
| The ton in these statistics signifies LOCO
| Kilograms or 1,H7 pounds.) Allowing that
the hgures of the RictsdnaiGt7' are accu-
rate, the fact remains that the high price
OF bread presses heavily upon the working
! classes, who. while feeling the pinch. tail
! TO understand the arguments Of the Minis
| try that temporary abolition Of the tariff
would not relieve the existing distress.
The cHANcELLoB's DECLARATIONS CONTRA
! DICTED.
The declarations of Chancellor Won Ca
| priv that the crops in Germany are in bet
| ter condition than Is generally supposed
! have been contradicted by reliable reports
! from several quarters Of the empire. re-
celved by telegraph to-day. These reports
| are 10 the effect that in Western Prussia
| severe cold weather and night frosts du-
ring the current week have ruined the
| crops. The cold wave appears to have eI-
| tended over Silesia, Saxony, Bavaria, and
| MoTavia. kilograms from Vienna an
pounce that there has been heavy fall of
snow in the Eastern Alps, covering the
plains of Styra.
THE WEATHER AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
The prospect that the weather will blast
| every promise of favorable crops is already
! disturbing official circles. II is under
| stood that Chancellor Won Caprivi to-day,
| becoming dissatisfied with the reports
! upon which he has based his assertions
made during the debate in the lower house
OF the Prussidn Diet, has actually asked
the customs officers and other function
aries to furnish fresh statements.
In the mean time memorials from Mu-
| nlch, Hamburg. Dresden, and other CEN
tres reach the Chancellerie protesting the
| necessity of a reduction OF tie tariff on
grain. The session of the Landtag will be
| brought 20 a close next week, when the
Liberal members of that body will then
carry the agitation into the country dis
trcts.
ABATEMENT AT THE BACCARAT REVELATIONS
Military and social circles are equally
amazed at the revelations regarding the
conditions of society III England. The adj
! mission that the Prince Of Wales has been
involved in gambling scandal Is the prin-
! Clpal topic of conversation. At all the
| military casinos and clubs the action or
the Prince III the affair ~ emphatically
| condemned. It is impossible, II is stated,
to conceive Of high Prussian officer con-
! dOning the offence of cheating at cards or
| OF screening person who had been found
guilty Of such an act, and no instance Is
| known IN the army where an officer has
parleyed publicly or privately regarding q
similar charge.
THIS PICTURE AND THAT.
The newspaper press draw comparisons
! between the habits of the Prince of Wales
| aad those of Emperor William, whose
strong condemnation Of gambling in the
German army has greatly assisted 10 check
the practice of PLAYING for high stakes.
The Emperor. it has long been known,
entertains no warm feeling towards the
| Prince of Wales, but the papers generally
refrain from harsh criticism OF the conduct
of the heir apparent TO the English throne.
sHoCKIEGl
The Klcine ,Jou-ndiGoes so far in alluding
TO the relations of the Princess Of Wales
towards her husband as TO say that she IS
neglected for women Of doubtful character
and finds her sole consolation in the re-
spect with which the English people sur
round her.
AN EXCITING LIBEL SUIT.
The suit for libel now being tried at
Bochum continues TO excite the country.
The prosecution has asked the Essan tri-
bunai TO sentence Editor Fuscangel to two
years and Luemann TO one years impri-
sonment respectively for accusing Herr
Barre. the director OF the BOchum Iron
Works and the friend and financial adviser
! of Prince Bismarck, with falslfylng his In
come for the purpose OF escaping the IN
come tax. The grave charge that Herr
Baarc for sixteen years has been sending
out from his works steel rails which have
not been properly tested and which bear a
forgery of the Government stamp, which
could not be affixed by Government OIL
Gals under the circumstances though de-
clared by the public prosecutor TO nave
been proven, remains the subject OF keen
general discussion.
A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY SUGGESTED.
The Bochum Iron-Works are the largest
factory of the kind in Germany with the
exception Of the Krupp WORKS. and export
many thousands of tors Of rails and loco
motive axles. The suspicion which has
1 hu
mated a system of supplying German and
foreign railways with poor material, fraud
ulently stamped as having been oihclally
tested. will not be set at rest without an
open Government inquiry, which certain
officials are accused OF trying to prevent.
RUSSIA LYING Low.
The Post asserts that the French Gov
ernment's demand that the Gar make den
mite declaration az to the attitude winch
ne would assume in the event OF a Franco
German war, has obtained only the yagues'
response, committing Russia TO nothing.
INTERN TIoNAL HEBREW EMIGRATION COM
MITTEE.
! Az conferences of Hebrews held here
which have been attended by Delegates
Adler. of the Anglo-JewlSh Association
Erlanger and Loeb, OF Paris, ana Stern Oh
Vienna. # has been resolved TO form an IN
tarnational emigration committee for the
nuroose of supervising the emigration OF
Jews fiom Russia. Only refugees who
have been compelled TO leave their home,
will bo assisted, and these will all be SEM
to their ultimate places of settlement.
THE JEWISH EXODUS IMMENSE.
AZ the conferences ample evidence wa'
adduced TO show that the exodus Is reach
ing immense proPOr ond FngIob I'd however
the flood of emigration tending towards
the United States.