The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-28
HUNGER IN GERMANY
High Tariff Sends the Price of
Food Out of Sight.
WOMEN ATTACK THE STORES.
Emperor William to Enter London
on the Fourth of July.
WOMEN ATTACK THE STORES.
II an italian Is Not the Next Pope Ger
many Would Prefer Gibbons to Lavi-
gerie-The Central European Zoll-
verein-weIsh Tin Works Closed.

BERLIN, June 27.-T Associated Press,
Copyrighted, 1891. The ministerial coun-
ell which Emperor William held preim-
mary to departure on his coming foreign
tour disposed temporarily of several ques-
tions relating to the home and foreign
politics of the government. The minis
ters have received instructions to acceler-
ate the negotiations for the formation of q
central European customs union. to leave
the proposed commercial entente with Rus
sia in suspense, to treat the anti-grain law
agitation as non-existent unless food riots
occur. and to issue a lottery amounting to
5000, 900 marks to assist in furthering the
enterprise of Major Wissman in East
Africa. Some proposals looking to the
anticipation of the condition of the poor
of East Prussia were also discussed az the
council.
Touching the new zoliverein. Swiss
papers, which have French leanings, err
roneously state that the government at
Berne has its hands tied by the new tariff
being subject to rearrangement by the
coming conference of countries interested
in the dreibund. The zollverein, it seems
likely, will expedite customs agreement
with Belgium and Holland, in which Lux
emburg will share.
Regarding grain laws agitation, the as
sumed indifference of ministers does not
lessen the public ferment, and symptoms
of popular outbreak in consequence Of
the high price of provisions have mani
Tested themselves at several places within
short distance of the imperial palace. At
Potsdam 400 women who were engaged in
marketing, becoming enraged at the price
demanded for potatoes, assaulted the
dealers and wrecked the market.
The TagebIatt tonight reports that Miguel
minister of finances, in the course of a
conversation with q member of the reichs-
tag, stated that only the present critical
stage of the negotiations of commercial
treaties prevented the government from
repeating the grain laws.
Berlin papers today comment upon the
statement recently made by Flourens, ex-
minister of foreign affairs of France, dur
ing the course of an interview, in which
the ex-minister admitted the existence of
the Franco-Russian alliance. FIourens
adds that the formation of the alli-
ance is the work of the car himself
These statements appearing simultan-
eously with the Bismarkian articles in the
Hamburger Nackrichtca, enlarging upon the
danger of too close friendship with Eng
land as an offense to Russia, have evoked
indignant replies from the semi-official
press, in which the Salisbury government
is openly spoken of as an allay of the
dreibund. This allusion represents the
official belief that within the recent period
Salisbury has become party to secret
convention, committing his government,
so long as it remains in his power, to con-
certed action with the dreibund.
The foreign Office attaches considerable
Importance to the coming visit of the
young king of Servia to the car, and to ar
rangements made to give the visit a dis
tinct political significance.
References made to letters from Rome
regarding the candidacy of Cardinal Layi-
gerie to the holy see have aroused the an
tagonism Of the Germans to the idea of a
French pope The Rreuzzeitung holds
that it is probable that the successor to
Leo XIII. will be drawn from the Italian
cardinalate, and if the next pope be not
Italian the choice of the conclave will be
Cardinal Gibbons. of the United States.
against whom neither national iealousies
nor internal clerical differences can ope-
rate.