The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-20
THE GERMAN TROUBLE,
Won Caprivi Will Not Resign
Because Sedlidtz Did.
SECTARIAN SCHOOL BILL DEAD.
A Bill Granting Home Rule to Scot
land Introduced in Parliament.
Failure OF . Great Paris Bank Causes
Suicide of One Director and Flight of
Two Others-Germany Not Deeply
Interested in Silver.

BERLIN, March 19.-TAssociated Press
copyrighted. 1892 IA calmer view of the
ministerial situation prevails everywhere
tonight. 1t is positively known that
Caprivi has not resigned. The retirement
of Zedlidtz, Prussian minister of eccIesi-
asticai affairs, is still undecided. but de-
pends on the result of the emperor's de-
hberations Now that the nature of the
crisis is better understood, it is seen that
at no time was it of the momentous char
acter that rumor gave it. Since the COM
mittee having in charge the Prussian
primary education bill began its
sitting, Caprivi and Zedlidtz have
been offering no opposition to
tentative amendments to the measure.
Only last week the government seemed
bidding for an arrangement satisfactory to
the National Liberals, and which would
break up the threatened coalition with the
Freiesinnige party. MIGUEL. Prussian min
lister of finance, who, when the bill was
promoted. was only induced to retain his
position by a promise of the emperor that
satisfactory notifications would be made
in the bill, was empowered by Bennigsen,
the National Liberal leader, TO inform the
emperor that the party retained no hope
that the negotiations would result sue
cessfully unless the bill was so altered as
to deprive the Catholic and Lutheran
clergy of the special rights giving them con-
troll of religious teaching in elementary
schools. The emperor, therefore, had to
face the loss of his favorite minister
Miguel
On Thursday last he instructed Zedlidtz
to prepare compromise on the basis of
the demands of the National Liberals.
Zedlldtz counseled with the chancellor,
who urged that an attempt be made to
meet the emperor's wishes, but Zedlidtz
found that an attempt to alter the bill to
satisfy the National liberals would in
volve such radical changes as would make
the measure impossible Of acceptance by
the Conservative and Centrist majority,
and his only way out was to resign.
In order to think over the difficulty in
complete seclusion the emperor left Ber-
lin for his shooting seat. Meanwhile the
members of the National Liberal and
Freisinning parties are Growing over their
temporary success. The Post, however,
admits that the victory is doubtful. The
TageblGtt advises the National Liberals to
remain deaf to all solicitation and sur
render nothing, but rather draw strength
from the situation. The Kreus Zeitung
still hopes the emperor will not aban-
don the religious clauses of the bill.
thus running the hopes of the
Conservatives and Catholics. 1t advises
the government to resort to adjournment
till October to keep the ministry intact
and insure subsidence of the opposition
clamor. The Conservative members of the
landtag feel that such step is advisable.
The crisis has not caused any trouble on
the bourse and financial houses have not
given credence to rumors of the chan
cellor's resignation, nor have they attached
any Importance to the retirement of Zed-
lidtZ.