Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-13
FLASHES FROM TIE FATHERLAND
Current Political Gossip at
Berlin.
Increasing Opposition to
Army Bill.
III 1t Fails of Passage Chancellor
Caprivi will Resign Franco
Russian Relations and
Other fairs.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 12.--[Copyright, 1892,
by the New York Associated Press.
At concurrent meetings of the Centrists
in Bavaria, Baden and Wnrtemburg, a
we'll nigh unanimous sentiment against
the army bill was expressed. This at
titude of the Centrists has shattered the
confidence of the Ministerialists in the
reichstag in the acceptance OF the meas
ure. The Centrists papers have reverted
to their former denunciations OF the
bill, and no single organ OF the Centre
party advocates anything but uncom-
promising hostility to it. Popular op-
position to the measure is also forming
among the people, who are becoming
more and more alive to the fact that the
bill will entail upon them financial bur-
dens by raising the price of tobacco, beer
and spirits.
CAPRIvI'S GREAT RISK.
The disclosure of the fact that Prussia
is financially embarrassed, taken with
the proposal of DIR. MIGUEL, Prussian
"luletcI vi uHGHCO, ~ lCNy a OoA Upoh
capital, has contributed to a ievulsion
against the governments financial pol
icy generally. The bill will be intro
duced in the reichstag the Oath inst. 4,
and if defeated, Caprivi will resign. The
emperor is not an enthusiastic adherent
of the project. His majesty is credited,
in giving final assent to it, with remark
ing to the chancellor "You risk much
over this"
The members of the reichstag and
landtag, who are now gathering here.
concur in the report that their constitu-
ents dislike the prospect Of increased
taxation for army purposes, though they
are willing to agree to the two years ser
vice provision.
THE NEXT CHANCELLOR.
Count Won Gutenberg, president of
the Prussian council of ministers, and
Prince Hohenlohe, stattholter of Alsace-
Lorraine, are the favorites for chancel-
lor, in case Caprivi is compelled to re-
sign.
WORLDS FAIR EXHIBITORS.
The official register of exhibitors at the
Chicago Columbian exposition shows
that $500 firms will be represented.
Wine producers are especially numer-
ous, numbering 267. In the book trade.
$50 houses will be represented. Mining,
iron working and textile manufactures
will be sparsely represented. Another
less pleasing enterprise connected with
the fair has been discovered in the
country districts, where agents were
trying to entice girls to 60 to Chicago.
The authorities made short work OF
this.
THE DowAGER QUEENS WILL.
The will of the late dowager queen
of Wurtemburg bequeathed S4,O0O,0
marks. OF this sum 100000 marks
is given to her niece, Princess Veras OF
Wurtemburg. and several million marks
to Princess Veras' two daughters. The
king of Wurtemburg receives 10, 900, 900
marks. The remainder is widely dis
tributed among other relatives.
FRANCE AND RUSSIA.
Official information from st. Peters
burg contradicts both the reported con-
clusion OF Franco Russian alliance and
the sensational stories that Russian
troops were being concentrated upon the
frontier. The weakness of the French
government in dealing with Socialists,
and the prospect OF radical ministry in
Paris. has intensely displeased the czar,
who has ordered the suspension of ne
gotiations for treaty. The rumor re-
garding the movement of Russian troops
had it's origin in the Paris Matin.
1t is due to the fact that the garrisons
removed from the frontier stations dur
ing the cholera period are now returning
to their posts.
COMMENTS ON THE AMERICAN ELECTION.
Many German papers in welcoming
Cleveland's election to the presidency of
the United States seem to think his ad-
vent will involve the early disappear
ance of the Mckinley tariff. The better
informed journals discuss the election
from another standpoint, paying due
respect to the grand sight of free
people peacefully declaring their
sovereign will. The Vossische lei
tung calls America the mightiest
nation in the world, because she
has no reason to either ask for or fear
anything from any other nation. All
the papers agree in hoping that the
Mckinley tariff will be modified. Some
of them point out that the tariff has
done less harm to German exports than
was expected, only the textile manufac-
turers of Saxony having suffered much.
The Berlin Merchants and Manufac-
turers' club has decided to organize g
German exhibition, to be held in 1895
or 1897. in lieu of the abandoned Ger
man worlds exhibition.
The Delagoa Bay Trouble.