St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-03
BISMARCK The TOPIC,
Tendencies Of Government
Toward the Cancellation
Of the Poles.
Prince Bismarck Received
1000 Few Votes Than His
Predecessor.
He Declares That He Will
Never Oppose the EN-
perOr.
Other News Of Importance
Cabled From the German
Capital.

Prince BiSmarck's early temperance
IN the reichStag has given an impetus
to the governments plans for the con-
Citation of the various parties, so as to
render them ready to coalesce in the
governments interest. The Center and
FrelSinnige parties and the Guelphs
and Poles in turn receive govern
ment inducements. Though the
Poles only count sixteen in the
reichstag, their steady support is
worth securing. The recently developed
tendency of the government towards
the cOnciliation of the Poles ought Justly
to be ascribed in part to a Quickened
sense of justice in dealing with them.
Whatever mixed motives may animate
the government. the Poles of Western
Prussia and Posen have been favor
ably influenced by a freer use of
the national language in the schools,
by the greater facilities afforded them
for the requirement and sale of
land, and by the increased courtesy ac-
corded by officials to Polish families.
TO-day's debate in the lower house of
the diet on the budget commission for
the German coloniZing of Western
Prussia OccasiOned remarks touching
the governments policy IN POSen, and
provoked Chancellor Won Caprvi to eX-
PLAIN. He denied that the government
had conceded to the Poles anything be-
yOnd what came within the scope of the
settlement law. 1t had metthe wishes of
the Poles as regards both the schools
and church. The Poles, on their part.
had also manifested desire to bring
themselves into closer accord with the
government. The desire found ex-
preston in the support which the Poles
gave the government proposals for in
creaSing the defensive power of Ger
many. This, the chancellor said, was
indeed pleasant and surprising
change.' If the Poles would take the
lead upon the
Path of Reconciliation
the government and the Germans were
ready TO follow. Abiding to the Sug-
gestion that the amicable treatment of
the Poles had latent aim to make
prOSelytes among them. Chancellor Won
Caprivi secuted the idea that the sole
aim of the government was to conciliate
the Poles through sense of Justice. The
speech met with general favor in the
house. If he had designed to contrast
the conditions of the Poles in Posen
with that of their harassed kindred over
the Russian border, the chancellor
could not have spoken better.
Prince BiSmarck's victory in Geeste-
munde is modified by the fact that he
polled 1000 fewer votes than did his Ma
tional predecessor in the seat. The So
cialisl ballot was reinforced by over a
thousand Guelphist and FreiSinnige
voters. whose hatred of the prince ex-
ceeded their dislike to the socialists.
The semi-official press abstain from
commenting on the result. The
FreiSinnige Zeitung halls Prince Bis
marck'S entrance into the reichStag as
an act of homage to the parliamentary
system, which he persstently tried
when chancellor to discredit and weak
EN-. The prince, i'll an interview on the
eve of the reballot, declared that if he
went to the reichstag he would never
attack any policy directly initiated by
the emperor, and that his line of con-
duct would be the same as
that followed by him since he
left Berlin. He was convinced,
he said, that the greatest danger to the
fatherland was not from without but
from within. He would not refrain from
exposing it, but he certainly would
never say any thing to give his opponents
reason to charge him with
Attacking the Emperor
from personal motives. This sort of as
surances promises lively times in the
reichstag.
The Hamburger Nachrichten holds
that the death of Count von MOltke
adds to the desire of Germany to see
ga sentiment of disquiet," says the
Nachrichten, fills the empire. The
future is uncertain" The new men
into whose hands have been conhded
the destinies of the fatherland cannot
reassure the country"
The Freisinnige and Centrist press is
indignant at this language, and the Ger
mania responds as follows: "True Ger
mans have the fullest confidence in the
emperor and the new cOunSellors, and
disQuiet will only arise if political des-
pot again becomes the master of the
fate of the nation"
The Austro-German plenipotentiaries
will sign treaty of commerce at vi
emma tomorrow.
The Swiss bundesrath to-day received
an invitation to send delegates to the
commercial treaty conference which is
to open on the 18th instant. Neither
Belgium nor Italy appears to be willing
to assist in the formation of customs
union directed primarily against the
new French tariff. The results of the
conference cannot affect the commercial
relations between Germany and Amer
lea. The jurisconsults to whom the gov
ernment sometime since referred the
Position of G ermany
under the Frankfort treaty are under
stood to have concurred in the opinion
chat it is impossible for Germany to
grant preferential tariffs against France
under strict construction of the pro-
visions of the treaty.
The American department of the in
ternational art exhibition is a thorough
success. Bierstadt sent four pictures.
c. S. Pearce's "Shepherdess'' is among
the largest canvasSes exhibited.
IL has received high praise
from the critics. Carl Melcher's work
occupies the place of honor. E. L.
Weeks exhibits his ''Pear Mosque:''
Walter MacEwen, his "Absent;'' Eu-
gene Vail, ''The Thames" Walter Gay,
''The Spinner" and Julius Steward.
SFull Speed" Other fine works are
sent by Frank Bridgeton, Julian Storey,
L. L. Clarke, Miss Lee-Robbins, Miss
Greatorex, Humphrey Moore, G. P.
Heady and A. d. Anderson. Messrs.
Melchers and MacEwen are here as rep
resentatives of the Paris-American ar
lists. The committee are guests of the
emperor at banquet tonight at Pots
dam.
The appointment of Lieut.. Clarke, of
the limited States cavalry IN serve with