Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-20
THAT GERMAN CRISIS
Is Not Such a Dreadfully Serious
Matter After All.
WILLIAM THINKS HE'S THINKING,
At Lsas. He's Gone Into the Solitude Of His Shooting
Lodge For the ALLEGED Purpose Of COgisting
Upon the Crisis and a Means Of
Compromising With Himself.
Copuriah,. rsg2.

BERLIN, March l9.--A calmer view OF
the Ministerial situation prevails every
where tonight. II is positively known
that Chancellor Won Caprivi has not re-
signed and that the retirement OF Count
Won Zedlitz, the Prussian Minister OF Ec-
clesiastical Affairs, Instruction and Me-
dicinal Afflirs, is still undecided. IL de
pends on the result OF Emperor Williams
deliberations in the solitude OF Huoertu-
stock. Now that the nature OF the crisis
is better understood IL is seen that at no
time had it been of the suddenly momen-
tous character that rumor gave TO 1t.
Since the committee having in charge
the Prussian Education bill.began its sit
tings Chancellor Won Caprivi and Count
Won Zedlidtz have been Offering liberal
opposition to the tentative amendments to
the measure. Only last week the Govern
ment seemed TO be bidding for an arrange
ment of the difficulty which had arisen
over the bill which would be satisfactory
TO the National Liberals, and would break
uD the threatened coalition with the Freis-
SINCE party.
Herr MIGUEL, the Prussian Minister OF
Finance. who, when the bill was promoted,
offered to resign his Office and was only in
duced to retain his portfolio by the promise
of the Emperor that satisfactory modinca-
tions should be made in the bill, was en-
eral leader to inform the Emperor that
his party entertained no hope that the ne
gotiations would result successfully unless
the bill should be so altered as 10 deprive
the Catholic and Lutheran clergy OF the
special rights given them 10 control relig-
ious teachings in the elementary schools.
The Emperor therefore. had to facethe
loss of his ablest minister, Herr MIGUEL,
and the intended popular agitation against
the BILL or to get Count Won Zedlitz TO Of
fer an acceptable compromise. On Thurs
day last he instructed Count Won Zedliz
to prepare compromise measure on the
basis of the demands Of the National Lib
erals. Count Won Zedlitz consulted with
the Chancellor who urged that an attempt
be made to meet the Emperors wishes.
Count Won Zedlitz found that an attempt
TO alter the bill in such way that 1t would
satisfy the National Liberals would In
volve such radical changes as TO make the
measure impossible Of acceptance by the
Conservative and Centrist majority, and
that his only way out OF the trouble was TO
resign and he will adhere to his resolution
to retire from the Ministry if the Emperor
persists in his surrender to the Natianal
Liberals.
In order to think over the difficulty in
complete seclusion, His Majesty left Berlin
for his shooting seat, an hours journey by
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 who are acquainted with the
Emperor's moods will not be surprised TO
see him in Berlin any day brim full Of
some solution os the existing difficulty,
reached by him through his reflections
amid the forest solitudes, or his stay may
be protracted until public interest in the
crisis shall have waned. His Maiesty's
habit of isolating himself 10 brood alone
over State questions of great Importance
has rarely failed TO result in some new de-
parture.
Meanwhile the members OF the National
Liberal and Freissinge parties are crow
ing over their temporary victory.
The Kreuz Zcitung still hopes that the
Emperor will not abandon the religious
clauses of the bill, thus running the hopes
OF the Conservatives and Catholics. 1t ad-
vises the Government 10 resort 70 an ads
iournment of the Landtag until October
10 keep the Ministry intact and await the
subsistence of the opposition clamor.
The opinion current here, including that
of the few members OF the Reichstag who
still adhere to Bimetallism, is that an in
ternational conference would be OF doubt
full value.
In the criminal court to-day eight per-
sons who had been convicted Of rioting on
the streets on February % were sentenced
TO terms OF Imprisonment ranging from
fifteen months TO three years. One of the
prisoners who was charged with having
insulted the Emperor and villified the po-
lice was condemned TO two years impris-
onmelt at hard labor.
K. S. Waring. of Pittsburg, Pa, the in
ventor OF the Waring cable system, is now
in Berlin. His visit is made with view
to starting factory here, the provisions
Of the German patent laws compelling him
to manufacture his goods in this country,
in order TO protect his patent rights. Mr..
waring says that the operations Of the
McKinley bill have caused Messrs.
Siemens and Holske to incorporate and
start a large factory in Illinois. as they
could not otherwise compete with Ameri-
can manufacturers.