The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-20
CABINET OF THE KAISER.
CHANOBLLOR Won CAPRIvI is
STILL IN OFFICE.

The Resignation of Count Won zedlitz
Also Still Undecid sd-rhe Emperor
Retires to His Shooting Seat to
Think Over the Situation and the
Final Outcome Depends on Hts De-
liberations.
Copyright, 1922. by the ". Y. associated Press)
BERLIN, March ia calmsr view Of
the ministerial situation prevails every
where Tonight. 1t is positively known that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has not resi gned,
and that the retirement Of Count Zedlitz,
the Prussia1 minister of ecclesiastical
affairs. instruction and medicinal affairs,
is still undecided. 1t depends on the result
Of the Emperor Williams deliberations In
the solitude Of Huburtstock. Now that the
nature Of the crisis Is better understood, it
is seen that at no time had it been of the
suddenly momeltous character that rumor
gave il. Sinos the committee having in
Charge the Prussian primary educational
bill began its slttings, Chancellor Won
Caprivi and Count Won Zsdlitz have been
Offering opposition to the tentative amend
ments to the measure.
BIDDING FOR AN ARRANGEMENT.
Only last week the government seemed to
be bidding for an arrangements OF the diff
Guilty which had arisen over the bill. which
would be satisfactory to the national
liberals and would break up the threa tened
coalition with the friesinnige party.
Herr MIGUEL, the Prussian minister OF
finance. who, when the bill was promoted,
offered to resign hts office and was only
induced to retain his portfolio
by the promise of the emperor
that satisfactory notifications should
be made in the bill, was empowered by Herr
Won Bennigsen, the national liberal leader,
20 inform the emperor that his party enter
tanned no hope that the negotiations
would result successfully unless the bill
should be so altered as to deprive the Cath
olic and Lutheran clergy Of the special
rights given them to control religious teach
ing in the elementary schools.
THE EMPERoR's DILEMMA.
The emperor, therefore. had to face the
loss Of his ablesE minister (Herr MiqueD and
intended popular agitation against the bill,
or TO get Count Won Zedlitz to offer an ac-
ceptahle compromise. On Thursday last
be instructed Count Won Zedlltz to prepare
a compromise measure on tho basis Of the
demands Of the national liberals. Count
Won Zedlltz consulted with the chan~
cellor. who urged that an at
tempt be made TO meet the emperor's
wishes. Count Won Zedlitz found that an
attempt to alter the bill in such a way that
it would satisfy the national liberals would
involve such radical changes as TO make the
measure impossible of acceptance by the
conservative and centerist majority, and
that his only way out of the impasse was TO
resign. and he will adhere TO his resolution
to retire from the ministry IL the emperor
persists in his surrender to the national lib
erals.
RETREAT OF THE EMPEROR.
In order to think over the difficulty In
complete seclusion, the emperor left Berlin
for his shooting seat, an hour's ride by rail
from Berlin. The date of his return is un-
certain, aud depends, the court journal
says, upon the general state OF his health
and the condition Of the weather. Persons
who are acquainted with the emperors
moods would not be surprised to see him in
Berlin any day brimful OF some luton Of
the existing difficulty reached by him
through his meditations among the forest
solitudes or his stay may be protracted until
public interest In the crisis shall have
waned. His haoit of isolating himself to
brood alone over state questions OF great
importance has rarely failed to result in
some new departure.
Meanwhile the members of the national
liberal and friesinnige parties sre Growing
over thel. temporary success. The oSt,
nOW huLuAbn bnak tue FADLOI1 is uOuOL~
full. ut is necessary for the
opposition to rest upon its arms"
says the Post. "If anything
has been won, IT is due alone to the ergy
and persistence Of the protests made against
the bill, and we must continue the same
tactics in order to obtain solution of the
difficulty consonant with the interests of
the country"
The Tdgeblatt advises the national liber-
als'to remain deaf to all solicitations; to
surrender nothing, but rather to draw
strength from the promising situation.
TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE.
The Vossfche Zeitung halls the resignation
Of Count Won Zedlitz as a triumuh Of public
conscience, aud says that the education pro-
posals must be dropped,
The Kreuz ZeitunQ still hopes that the
emperor will not abandon the religious
clauses Of the bill, thus running the hopes
of the conservatives and Catholics. It adj
vises the government to resort to an ad-
journment OF the Landtag until October to
keep the ministry intact and await the sub
sidsnce of the opposition olamor.
The opinion of the conservative members
Of the Landtag certainly is that this step is
advisable.
NO SCARE ON THE BoURsE.
The crisis has not caused any trouble
upon the bourse, and financial houses ha,
not given oTedence to the rumors of the
chanoellor's resignation, nor have they at
tached auy importance to the retirement of
Cou t Won Zedlitz. On the bourse to-day
business was irregular and prices
we're depressed on the Paris
selling OF Russian securities, which
declined here flve-eighths of l per cent.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg state that
another important firm 10 in fnAncial diffi-
Guilty, but 1t is added that powerful efforts
will be made to prevent the suspension Of
the firm in question.
THE SILVER AGITATION.
The contemplated Austrian currency agi-
tation, the Bland silver bill and the move
ment Of the British bi-metallists have
rea wakened interest iu the silver question
here. The report Of the Reichsbank for 1891
shows the total stock of coin held by thai
institution TO be 1913, 700, ,000 marks. Separ-
ate totals Of gold and sill or are not given.
but the amount Of silver is estimated
at 200, 100000 marks. Experts have
estimated that the silver held In Austria
Hungary amounts to 420, 0,00V, 600 marks AL
though President Koch II the Reiohsbank,
with most of the financial leaders OF Ger
many and Austria, now adheres TO the gold
standard, all agree that the national in-
terest would obllge them to take part in an
inter ational moneta y conference II one
should he arranged on the initiative Of the
United States or another great country.
Herr Koch maintains that all that Ger
many could assent to in the conference
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