Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-31

IN THE FATHERLAND.
Emperor William Studying
Crop Prospects.
Reduction of the Grain Tariffs
Under Consideration.
Bismarck Forming Coalition to De-
feat the Proposed Step.
Horrors Inflicted on the Russian Jews
With the Czar's Full knowledge
and Consent.
Associated Press Dispatches.

BERLIN, May 30.-[Copyright, 1891,
by the New York Associated Press. !
Emperor William, before deciding upon
the reduction or temporary suspension
OF the duties on grains, asked Won Boet-
ticher, secretary of the imperial home
office, to submit to him report upon
the crop prospects and upon the general
economic position bearing upon the
question. The ministerial council will
meet tomorrow to take definite action
touching the matter. The ministers
maintain the utmost reserve, but it is
the official conviction tonight that there
will be neither a reduction nor suspen-
sion of duties before the commercial
treaty between Germany and Austro-
Hungary comes into force. The Cologne
Gazette states that the government will
declare its decision on Monday.
Lobby gossip has it that the landtag
will fix the opening of special session
OF the reichstag for June 18th, but this
report ie in direct variance with the be-
lief in ministerial circles.
The commission appointed by the
government to consider the matter of
grain supplies, has not yet completed its
inquiry, though a preliminary reporthas
been supplied by it to the ministers, in
order to assist them in their delibera-
tions. Only the most urgent necessity
will cause the convening of the
reichstag.
BIsMARCK's OPPOSITION.
A decision of the grain tariffs ques-
tions would open the whole question of
the pending negotiations or treaty of
commerce with Austria, and would
force the government to awkward dis
closures which might assist Prince Bis
marck in forming the opposition coali-
tion which he is now actively at work
constructing.
The Progressist press announce that
Bismarck will appear in the reichstag
and oppose all reduction of the grain
tariffs, and predict that the prince will
certainly meet with humiliating de-
feat, as hardly score OF members will
support him. Tbe conservatives admit
that temporary reduction of the tariffs
may be advisable. "A
The organs of the aggressive party
generally deny that there is any present
necessity for dealing with the tariff, but
admit reluctantly that there is a posi-
bility that the government will he COM
PEELED to intervene.
The position may be summed up as
follows: If the ministers declare a
semi-famine impending, no party will
dare to oppose measures of relief.
ITALY's ADHERENCE TO THE DREIBUND,
The Post, semi-officially, annou noes
that Marquis di Rudini, the Italian pre-
mier, has formally communicated to the
German and Austrian governments the
determination of Italy to adhere to the
dreibund.
THE czAR's BRUTALITY.
Public indignation against Russia, be-
cause of the treatment of the Jews, is
becoming more intense. The residents
of this city have ocular evidence of the |
condition of the Hebrews who are being |
driven from Russia in hundreds or more |
of exlles, who arrive daily at |
Charlottenburg station in absolute des-
titution. The letter from Gladstone |
affirming that the czar does not know
of the horrors inflicted upon his Jewish
subjects differs utterly from the facts.
The truth is the czar is himself the ohief |
instigator of the increasing seventies |
pfactlced upon the Jews, and his maJes-
ty's brother, the Grand Duke Sergius,
now governor of Moscow, is willing
instrument for the carrying out of the |
brutal treatment. Jewish advices from
st. Petersburg and Moscow concur in
the statement that the most powerful
influences have been brought to bear |
upon the czar, but that the condition Of
the Jews is hopeless.
Won MoLTKE's PROPHECY.
The Saale Zeitung states that Won
Moltke just prior to his death concluded
an exhaustive study of European arma-
ments, ending with the assertion that
France was ready for war and Russia
nearly so, and that the great conflict
could not be delayed beyond 1892.
C0WARRI.Y P0LITICIAN.