The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-23
Stormy Scenes at the Cabinet Council
in Germany.
THE KAISER INSULTS HIS PREMIER.
CapriYi Desires to Leave the Cabinet-The En-.
peror Ordered Into Retirement BY
His Physicians.
Special to THE MORNING CALI.

NEW YORK, March 22.-The Herald's
special correspondent cables from Paris as
follows: | ain able 70 give you to-day news
which is absolutely reliable regarding the
EmperOr's illness and the political crisis at
Berlin. The Emperor has been in such
state of abnormal excitement for
the past fortnight that he has shut
himself in his private apa rtment and
has refused to grant an audience
70 any one. The attacks of the press on the
l0i ecOlaire and on the troubles in Berlin
still arouse him TO anger, but what has ex-
cited him more than anything else is letter
which he has received from schOofellow
of the Cassel Lyceum. The writer is now
professor at Tubingen. and has always
kept on the best possible terms with the
Emperor.
In his letter he sharply criticized the loi
ecolaiTe and said that the speech at Bran
denburg would antagonize the Emper0r's
friends. who had placed all their hopes on
hm. Inc letter reached the Emperor on
the 10th inst. A Cabinet council was held on
Thursday. Daring the session the En-
perOr did not say word, and when he saw
that his Ministers were opposed TO his plan
he made sign that he was willing To give
il up.
When, however. Capriyi said, Your
Majesty, order of the day has been passed"
he arose and burst into violent harangue in
which he iDsuted the Ministers and used
such bitter language toward Caprivi that
In visit TO The latter, Prince Henry. the
Emperor's brother, found il necessary to
apologize for the s0vereign's conduct
Caprlvi still holds Office, but he is very
anxious to Ign. The entire court, how
ever, insists that be shall remain at the
head Of Sffairs At least until the EmperoT's
health is re-eStabliShed and the Emperor
himself Is equally urgent on the
ground that a change would cause
confusion in the Foreign Office. A
Berlin dispatch says that the foreign
situation has never been more disturbed.
Here is the plain truth in regard TO The
EmperOr's health The official dispatches
are right in saying that the Emperor has a
cold, but they omit to say that suppurating
wound in hlS ear, which has been closed
since October, suddenly reODened recently
and q discharge began TO fow causing in
tense pain and rendering the Emperor so
nervous that his physicians found il neces-
saTy 10 prescribe for him an entire change
of surroundings and solitude. He does not
see any one al the Chateau HubertuS
The Grand Duke Sergius of Russia passed
yesterday through Berlin and asked TO see
the Emperor. He was told that the En-
peTOr, IN accordance with his physicians
instructions, could not receive him. In
weil-infOrmed circles people are talking
about the necessity for a regency. and
among diplomatlsts it is said that Prince
HeuTv is becoming every day more popular
Ii is possible that the Emperor may return
TO Berlin. but he Is certainly very i'll now.
The official world Is beginning 10 be very
uneasy. Fears are entertained that William
may seek vent for his excitement outside
of Germany, aud the same fears are enter
tained in London.