Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-23
THE BEAR IS FAT.
He is Stuffed with Wheat and
Has Barrels of Roubles.
RUSSIA'S FINANCIAL STATE.
Tolstoi, the Great, Insists that the Gar
Talk, and He Assures His Children
That Plenty Fills the Land.
Russia and Germany.
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Copyrighted, 1891 by the New York Associ-
ated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 2l.-The papers of this city
tonight, on apparently good ground as
sociate the Russian ukase prohibiting the
export Of wheat and wheat products, with
the failure Of NiShnegradsky, the
Russian finance minister, to influence Ber-
lin to reopen the German market
10 Russian loans MendelssOhn and other
financial houses have again been in consul
tatlOn with the government with reference
to the subject. The Kreus Zeitung states
that this time the government, instead of de-
clining to indicate what the bankers ought
10 DO definitely intimated that the guaran-
tees offered by Russia did not suffice to JUS
tify the official approval Of German credit
being Veutured in the loans. It
proaches through Count Won
Schouyaloif, Russian ambassador at Ber-
lin, on the attitude of tie government, re
ceived an equally decisive rebuff. The
tiasco which 4 French syndicate made OF
the last Russian loan has enormously
increased the financial difficulties of Rus
sId- NJ. NiShnegradsky has been forced
To relieve the syndicate of1tAe ES,OO0,0O0 Of
fered. The public o!ticiaI denial that the
ROthschildS have taken over $4,000 is
partly true. Bonds amounting to IS eco, 900
have been placed in the EOthschilds keep
Ing with no reSpOnsjb ility attached to their
future issue through the 1irEl. aud. the
French syndicate is relieved Of the burden
of GG,O0n0 600 which the Russian treas
ury hoped TO receive. Thus Russia
instead of having received el60j0 900 on 4
lean obtains only E9,UO0Oo0. The refusal of
the German government 10 permit bankers
10 bolster up Russian credit ends for
long time 10 come the chances of
Russia borrowing money abroad and
strengthens the chance of peace
The statement published by the
81. Petersburg official messenger
on the condition of the imperial finances
and its relation to the famine was tclo-
~raphcd here tonight as IN authoritative
declaration. aiming 20 minimize the dau--
gers Of the situation. The statement
begins by announcing that the stocks
of grain after the prohibition OF export will
be sufficient for the population until the
next harvest. As the people in the agricul-
tural districts depend on the sale of grain
they Will find their position embarrassing.
and the government has therefore
assigned 10 them 60,0J0,0O0 roubles
from the cash reserves, which
sum is sufficient TO meet the redemption Of
the debt for the current year and all eX-
penditUres included in the budget and still
leave cash balance equal to the needs of
1892
y falling of in the revenue is admitted,
but the official messenger declares
that this viii not substantially influence
the equilibrium of the budget. It is de-
MED that there is any Likelihood that
the treasury viii he required to purchase
gold abroad unless such course is nccessi-
tatcd 10y flowing back of Russian securi-
ties to Russia The gold reserve amounts
TO Il total of $500, coo roublcs in the treas
ury and l2O 100000 roubles in the imperial
bank, besides l5,0OOOOO secured by the re-
Gently issued provisional credit notes.
j Ill
from the last loan. The sum
of the official messengers statement
Is that Russia has plenty OF
grain ana an abundance of money for the
time being. This IS reaSSurinC to Russians
who are under the scare of
famine. This class includes Count
1ostoi, the great Russian social reformer.
who has published an energetic demand
hat the government declare whether the
stock Of grain IS sufficient 10 last.
Count Tolstoi advocates the purchase of
corn in America in time to protect the cQun-
try from famine aud the terrible social dis
turbauce that is certain to attend such a
condition Of affairs
Tolstoi contends from his own personal
calculation that the stock of grain
VIII not be sufficient. and the
government replies guaranteeiu"
enough 10 feed the people until
next harvest. if falsiied. will lead TO 4 reyo-
luton III which Tolstoi says he viii aid
Count Tolstoi's daughters, Latione and
Marie, have opened free restaurant for
tho administration near his chat
eku. All those persons who are in
dire necessity can get a good meal. but They'll
are FORBIDDEN to take food away with tbsfn,
the count foreseeing that if they were al
lowed to carry food away they might 3arter
il for drink.
The report that Emperor William is go-
ing to St Petersburg during the course of
the winter TO intercede with the car
TO deal more gently with the Germans
IN the Baltic provinces is improbaA .ssp
in the face Of the attitude of the govern
ment toward Russian finances. 4 fresh
instance of the hostility entertained in
st Petersburg for the German element
has been given. An order was issued
today forbidding that persons be