Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-20
CAPRIVI YET IN OFFICE.
Wilhelm Expected 10 Emerge Soon
With a Startling Solution.
HOW THE RUPTURE CAME ABOUT.
The Education Bill to Re Modified or MIGUEL
Will Step Down.
A BIG VICTORY FOR THE LIBERALS

BERLIN, March ia calmer view of
the ministerial situation prevails every
where tonight 1t is positively known that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has not resigned,
and that the retirement of Count Won Zed-
htz, the Prussian Minister of Ecclesiastical
Affairs, instruction and Medicinal Affairs,
is still undecided. 1t depends on the result
Of Emperor Williams deliberations in the
solitude of Hubertustock.
Now that the nature OF the crisis is better
understood, it is seen that at no time had it
that rumor gave to it, Since the committee
having in charge the Prussian primary edu-
cation bill began its sittings Chancellor Won
Caprivi and Count Won Zedlltz have been
offering liberal opposition to the tentative
amendments TO the measure. Only last
week the Government seemed to be bidding
for an arrangement of the difficulty which
had arisen over the bill, which would be
satisfactory to the National Liberals and
would break up the threatened coalition
with the Freisinnige party.
Miquers UItimatum to the Kaiser.
Herr Miguel, the Prussian Minister of
Finance, who, when the bill was promoted,
offered to resign his 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, to inform the
Emperor that his party entertained no
hope that the negotiations would result
successfully unless the bill should be so
altered as to deprive the Catholic and
Lutheran clergy of the special rights given
them TO control religious teachings in the
elemen tary schools The Emperor, there
fore, had to face the loss of his ablest
minister, Herr MIGUEL, and the intended
popular agitation against the bill or to get
Count Won Zedlitz 10 offer an acceptable
compromise.
On Thursday he instructed Count Won
Zedlitz to prepare compromise measure on
The basis of the demands of the National
Liberals. Count Won Zedlitz consulted with
the Chancellor, who urged that an attempt
be made to meet the Emperor's wishes.
Couldn't Please Both Parties.
Count Won Zedlitz found that an attempt
TO alter the bill in such way that it would
satisfy the National Liberals. would involve
such radical changes as to make the meas
ure impossible of acceptance by the Con-
servative and Centrist majority, and that
his only way out of the impasse was to re-
sign, and he Will adhere to-his resolution to
retire from the Ministry if the Emperor per-
sists in his surrender to the National Lib
erals.
Ir order to think over the difficulty in
complete seclusion, His Majesty left Berlin
for hi II h.
rail from Berlin. The date of his return is
uncertain and depends, the Court Journal
says, upon the general state of his health
and the condition of the weather.
Persons acquainted with the Emperor's
moods will not be surprised to see him in
Berlin any day, brim full of some solution
of the existing difficulty reached by him
through his reflections amid the forest soli-
tude; or his stay NAV be protracted until
public interest in the crisis shall have
waned. Ii is reported at midnight that the
Emperor viii return Monday.
Sure to Make Some Break.
His Naiesty's habit of isolating himself
TO brood over State questions of great i'm
portance has rarely failed to result in some
new departure. Meanwhile the members
o. the National Liberal and Freisinnice
parties are Growing over their temporary
success.
The Post. however, admits that the victory
is doubtful. 'It is necessary for the oppo-
sition TO rest upon its arms" SAYS the Post.
eff anything has been won it is due alone to
the energy and persistence of the protests
made against the bill, and we must continue
the same tactics in order to obtain solu-
ton of the difficulty consonant with the in
terests of the country" The 7dgebldn ad-
vises the National Liberals to remain deaf
10 all solicitations; to surrender nothing,
but rather to draw strength from the promis-
ing situation. The ToSsische Zeitu,aq halls
the resignation OF Count Won ZedlitZ as a
triumph of the public conscience, and saws
that the education proposals must be
dropped
Opinions of the Conservative Organs.
The K1s,Gse Zeitaosg still hopes that the
Emperor will no: abandon the religious
clauses OF the bill, thus running the hopes
of the Conservatives and Catholics 1t ad-
viSes the Government to resort to an ad-
iournment of the Landtag until October to
keep the ministry intact and await the SUBJ
sidence OF the opposition clamor
The opinion Of the Conservative members
of the Landtag certainly is that this step is
advisable. The crisis has not caused any
trouble upon the Bourse and financial
houses have not given credence to the ru-
mors of the ChaEcellor's resignation, nor
have they attached any importance to the
retirement of Count Won Zedlitz
DISPATCHES from ST. Petersburg state
that another important firm is in financial
difficulties, but it is added that powerful
efforts will be made to prevent the suspen-
sion of the firm in question.
The contemplated Austrian currency api
tation, the Bland silver bill and the move
ment of the British bi-metallists have re-
awakened interest in the silver question
here.
Germany's Position to Silver
Although President Koch, of the Reicbs-
bank, with most of the financial leaders of
Germany and Austria, now ajheres to the
gold standard, all agree that national inter
ests would oblige them to take part in an
monetary conference if one
should be arranged on the initiative of the
United States or another great country.
Herr Koch maintains that all that Germany
could assent to in the conference would be |
70 increase the amount of her subsidiary |
silver coinage. The opinion current here, |
including that Of the few members of the |
who still adhere to bi-metallisn,
is that an International conference would be |
ot doubtful value
In the Criminal Court to-day eight per-
sons who had been convicted of riotinr on |
The streets February % were sentenced to |
terms OF Imprisonment ranging from Is |
months to three years One Of the prison
ers, who was charged with having insulted |
the Emperor and who villifed the police, |
was condemned to two years Imprisonment |
at hard labor. Others who were charged |
only with resisting the authorities were |
sent to prison for from two to IL months.
Orders have been sent to the mining dis
thnt &c l.