Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-24
WILHELM AND Won CApRIVl
Their Quarrel Leads to the
Latter's Resignation.
WILHELM MAY NOT ACCEPT IT
Berlin Greatly Excited Over
the Affair.
II fs Not Known Whether Emperor Will
helm wiz Accept tho Chancellor's
Resignation or Not--Just Two Years To-
morrow, Since Prince Bismarck re-
signed.


Resignation or Not--Just Two Years To-
morrow, Since Prince Bismarck re-
signed.
BERLIN, March lS.-Chancellor Won ca
priv offered his resignation at the cabinet
meeting to-day as the result of protracted
contest on the education bill, which the
chancellor, as Prussian premier, has cham
pioned from the first. The announcement
excited the greatest sensation throughout
the city. At this moment there is no
definite information as to the action
of the kaiser in the premier's ae-
ton. 1t is known that the kaiser has APP
pretended for some time movement of
The kind on Caprivi's part, and has also
been much disconnected by the trouble
which the education bill has aroused. The
kaiser got out of his bed against the ad
vice of his physicians in order to confront
the approaching political storm. lii the
cabinet meeting, yesterday, the kaiser APP
peared to be sustained by the excitement
of the occasion and the necessity of keep
ing q determined front in view of the
probable disruption Of the ministry.
The kaiser himself has earnestly desired
to see the education bill become law, and
was prepared to strain every cord of his
influence asking of Prussia to effect its
adoption. But the storm of opposition
has been gathering in force with every
day, and from nearly all of Protestant
Prussia has arisen loud and resolute pro-
test against the concessions which the bill
proposed to the Roman Catholic faith.
The kaiser has been reminded of the devo-
ton of his house to the Lutheran faith, of
the early struggles of Brandenburg in the
cause of reformed religion, and of the
more recent contest so bitterly maintained
between the Roman hierarchy and the
Prussian government. These protests
have been brought to bear with even
greater force upon the diet. and member
after member has deserted the cause Of the
government. At last, within n few days,
it has become question whether in order
to drive the bill, in its present form,
through the iandtag, the kaiser and Caprivi
would not have TO ALLEVIATE thee whole
liberal party.
ne immediate cause Of Caprivi's resig-
.iation is said to be that, at the cabinet
meeting to-day, the kaiser substantially
stated that he favored material mudilica-
ton of the educational bill. As Caprivi
had substantially stated in the landtag that
he would stand or fail by the bill as it was
he felt bound in honor to resign The
kaiser's choice now is either to force the
bill through as il stands or to accept
Capriv's resignation. The kaiser is known
to be deeply attached tc Caprivi, and it Is
thought he may insist upon the chancellor
remaining and call upon the conservative
and ultra montana combination in the
landtag to pass the bill.
The resignation of Minister Zedlitz-
Truetzchler is necessitated if the bill is
seriously ploditied or withdrawn.
II Caprivis resignation should be ac-
copied his successor would probably be
Johannes MIGUEL, Prussian minister of
finance. There is no doubt that Mique's
opposition to the bill has had much TO do
with moderating the desire of the kaiser
to pass the bill as it stands.
The Germania, the organ of the ultra
montanes, said that no jot or 1.-THE shall
be abated from the BILL and has repeatedly
given the government to understand that
any modification must be made at the ex-
pense of the support Of the ultramontanes.
The educational bill, it will be recalled.
is the emperor's latest thunderbolt
launched against the socialists, and is
intended to counteract the atheistic
tendencies of their teachings. The bill
provides that in all the schools of Germany
religious instruction shall form and inte-
grail part of public instruction. The
Lutheran, Catholic, Reformed and other
churches are given the privilege Of in
structing their children in their own
creeds. Where a sufficient number of
pupils of any one denomination are col
lected in any school the bill provides for
the erection of a special department, in
be employed. Education being compul-
sorry i'll Germany, ii would be impossible,
under the proposed law, for socialists or
atheists to prevent their children receiving
religious instruction.
Within two days of two years ago, on
March goth, 1880, Emperor William ac-
copied the resignation of Prince Bismarck,
under whose leadership the German en-
pire was constructed out of numerous
petty states. On the same day General
Won Caprivi, commander of the Tenth
Army Corps, was appointed his successor
in the CHARACTERISTIC and in the presi-
dency of the Prussian ministry. The
direction of the ministry of foreign affairs
was, entrusted Professionally to Count
Herbert Bismarck, but he and the ex-
chancellors other son insisted on retiring
with their father. The full name of the
chancellor who has just resigned is George
Leo Won CapriW de Caprera de Montecuc-
Gull. He is descended from Italian anccs.
tors. His father was an eminent jurist in
the Prussian State service. The chancellor
was born in Berlin, February 9th, 1881
and had brilliant career in the army.
The differences between the impetuous
young emperor and Prince Bismarck
which led to the princes retirement re-
lated principally to the labor question and
colonial policy. The idea advanced by the
emperor Of protecting laborers and Of in,
wages was one that Prince Bismarck
had openly condemned. In the field oil
colonial politics the emperor had taken the
reins out of the princes hands, increasing
the military force in East Africa by several
thousand men, appointing Emin Pashu
governor-general, and involving the gov.
eminent in further responsibilities in
Southwest Africa. By publishing with
out the Endorsement of his chief minister
the rescripts of February 4th the emperor
manifested n determination to be his own
chancellor that made Prince Bismarck
continuance in office impossible, especially
after the defeat of the government parties
in the elections, which neeessitated new
combinations in regard to which his
opinions and those of the emperor must
inevitably clash.
BERLIN, March 19.-The statement mad,
in certain quarters yesterday that Chan
cellor Won Caprivi had resigned does no
appear. to meet with the confirmation
necessary TO make it directly worthy o
belief. Several newspapers indirectly us
snmed that the chancellor had resigned
and contained long articles as to what tn
effect of his resignation might be, but non
of them, with one exception, positiyel,
stated that the report was true. This on
exception was the h,sus Zeitung, the pape
which originated the report
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