The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-18
The Emperor, However, Does Not
Believe in Retreating.
He WILL STAND BY THE BILL.
The Panama Scandal Being Watched
With the Keenest Interest.
Russian Newspaper Received From Paris
Bride for Advocating Russo-French
Alliance Austria Concludes a
Gold Loan - Foreign News.

BERLIN, Dec. I'LL Chancellor Caprivi
reduces the amount of money in the army
Dill to $40, 000, 900 and modifies the gov
ernmen5's demands for an increase in the
present peace effective, the bill will have
no chance of approval; in the present
shape 1t will stand no chance whatever of
becoming law. Some official papers ad-
NIT that certain changes are essential to
the success Of the measure, but thew ex-
press confidence that concessions will be
offered. They viii be sufficient to win
over majority of the reichstag commit
tee to the support of the bill in form thai
will not materially change its scope. Ths
implied threat of the chancellor in his
speech, when the bill was put to the reich
stag, to dissolve the house and have new
election, had no effect upon the Conserya-
tives.
The lobbey report has it that the chan
cellOr is feeling worried at seeing that it is
improbable that he will obtain the assent
OF the reichstag to his full demands and
has told the emperor that be would gladly
resign. His majesty, however, is not
disposed to give the chancellor anv en-
| enlargement in retreating under fire. He
expressed determination to make the
army bill law even at the risk of an ap-
peal to the country and he assured Cap
| rivi that he would stand by him under all
circumstances. Notable features in the
debates has been the omission of all allu-
slons to Prince Bismarck, or any refer
ence to his opinion.
Developments in the Panama scandal il
watched with the keenest interest. One
comfort to Germany is that the spectacle
of corruption and confusion among
French political leaders lessons any
Russian desire to make France an ally.
Advices received here from St. Peters,
burg show that information recently
reached the car that a certain Russian
paper received from Paris 500, coo for
advocating a RussO-French alliance and
that part of the brides distrj buted by the
Panama Canal company have been ac-
cepted by prominent persons in Russia.
| The Russian court party are hostile to q
French alliance and they have seized the
opportunity to work on the czar's
prejudices against the French republic.
The German foreign Office is hopeful that
General Werder, the new German am
bassadOr to Russia, will succeed in de-
taching the car from France and so lead
to q new grouping of the powers.
| Another, and to Germany q far more
| important view of the situation, is that
chaos in France may produce an adven-
turer who would hazard war with Ger
many as the best stroke to carry himself
\ into power. The admission made by
Herr Leowe, a Jewish small arms manu-
| facturer, that he had offered to supply
France with machinery necessary for the
manufacture of Lebel rifles, has caused
renewed virulency in Judenhetso papers
which are making bitter attack upon
! Leowe, but ignore the open fact that
Krupp's works continually supply Rus
STA with guns and ammunition.
Hamburg and Berlin bourses We're dis
turbed yesterday by report of twenty
! from the disease had occurred at Ham
burg. Today official denials of the story
were issued.
Nothing beyond a rUmor has been heard
of the alleged communications exchanged
by European governments in regard TO
American restrictions upon the immigra-
ton OF Germans. A bill is before the
reichstag aiming at a regulation of immi-
grafton is especially designed to arrest
the outflow of the laborlng and poorest
population which goes chiefly to the
United States. Large land owners of
Austria have held meeting, at which,
with a view OF preventing immigration,
it was decided to recommend such reform
in the law as would enable peasants to
cultivate common lands.
The Austrian government is taking gold
from London slowly but steadily, and
has concluded a gold loan of 800, GOO, 900
from the Roth schild syndicate. The
the meantime uneasy.
J. S. Lee, an American astronomer who
has been studying for four years with
Professor Forester, has been appointed
to the Chair of Astronomy at Chicago
| University.