The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31
DUTIES ON GRAINS.
The Question of Suspending Them
in Germany.
BISMARCK is FOR THE TARIFF
Rudini Announces that Italy Will Adhere to
the Dreibund-The Gear Still Perse-
cutting the Jews.

BERLIN, May 3d. Copyrighted 1891, by
the New York Associated Press. EN-
peror William, before deciding upon re-
duction or temporary suspension of the du.
ties On grains, asked Won Boettrich, ex-
secretary of the imperial home office, 10
submit to him report upon the crop pros
poets and upon the general economic posi-
ton bearing upon the question. The min
isterial 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 sus-
pension of the duties before the CONNER
cial treaty between Germany and Austria
Hungary comes into force. The Cologne
Gazette states the government will declare
its decision on Monday.
Lobby gossip has it that the landtag will
Tx the opening of the special session of
the re1chstag for June II, but this report
is in direct variance with that generally
believed IN ministerial circles.
The commission appointed by the gov
ernment to consider the matter of grain
supplies has not yet completed its inquiry,
though preliminary report has been sup
piled by 1t to the ministers in order to as
slst them in their deliberations. Only the
most urgent necessity will cause a conyan-
Ing OF the relchstag. Discussion of grain
tariff questions would open the whole
| question pending negotiations for treaty
OF commerce with Austria and would force
the government to awkward disclosures
which might assist Prince Bismarck in
forming the opposition coalition which he
| is actively at work constructing.
The Progressists announce that Bis
marck will appear in the reichstag and
oppose reduction of the tariffs, and pre-
dict the prince will certainly meet with a
humlllating defeat. as hardly score of the
members will support him. The Conser-
vatlves admit that temporary reduction
OF the tariffs may be advisable. The Ger
mania, the Cenrist organ, concludes an en-
ergetlc protest against permanent
diminution of duties by familiar method.
Orators OF the Ogrogian party generally
deny there is any present necessity
for dealing with the tariff, but admit, reluc-
| family, there is possibility that the gov
eminent will be compelled to intervene.
The position way be summed up as follows
II the ministers declare Seryia famine is
| impending, no party will dare oppose
measures of relief.
| The Post semi Officially announces that
Marquis di Rudini, the Italian premier, has
formally communicated to the German and
| tAuStrIdu governments Tue determination
| of Italy to adhere to the driebund.
| Public indignation against Russia be-
cause OF her treatment of the Jews is be-
coming more intense. Residents of this
| city have secular evidence of the condition
Of the Hebrews who are being driven from
1 Russia in the hundreds or more exiles
who arrive daily at Charlottonburg
in state of absolute starvation.
A letter from Gladstone affirming
the Car knows nothing of the horrors in
ficted on his Jewish subjects differs
utterly from the facts. The truth is the
Gar is himself the chief instigator of the
increasing seventies practiced on the Jews,
and his maiesty's Grand Duke Sergius,
now governor of Siberia, is willing in
strument for the carrying out of the brutal
/ treatment. Jewish advices from st.
Petersburg and Moscow concur in the state
ment that the most powerful influences
have been brought to bear upon the Car,
but that the condition of the Jews is hope
| less.
| 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 great conflict could
not be delayed beyond few years.