Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
NOT EVEN THE CABINET
Knows Yet What Fate Befalls Them
When He Makes Up His Mind.
CAPRIvI STILL HOLDS THE FORT.
Some American Tourists Badly Treated
by Swiss Authorities
NEWS FROM TIE EUROPEAN CAPITALS

BERLIN, March N.-ln consequence Of
the ministerial crisis, most exaggerated re.
ports are iE circulation as to the course the
Emperor will follow, but when these reports
are traced to their source they are found to
be without foundation. The Ministers re.
fused absolutely to divulge anything.
A report was started to-day that the
Chancellor has resigned the Presidency of
the Prussian Council of Ministers, but that
he would retain the Chancellorship. 1t can
be said with no fear of denial that the
originators of this report know nothing of
the facts. So far. as any interview with the
Emperor on the subject is concerned there
is no truth in it.
The Chancellor was summoned to Huber
tusstock by the Emperor to discuss what ac-
tion the Government should take on the
primary education bill and other matters
connected with the present crisis; but there
was no question as to the Chancellor's resig-
nation of either of the Offices held by him,
for the simple reason, reiterated in these
dispatches, that he has never rendered his
resignation, all the reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The crisis has led to the discussion in
political and other circles of the old ques-
tion of the separation of the Offices of
Chancellor of the Empire and President of
the Prussian Council of Ministers, but the
question is yet in the embryo state
in which it was left at the time it was
discussed when Bismarck was Chancellor.
He held that the exigencies of German
politics rendered the separation of the Offices
impossible, and unless the views of Chan
cellor Won Caprivi have undergone most
radical change within few days, there is
not q single word of truth in the report that
he insists upon giving mp the Presidency of
the Prussian Council and retaining the I'm
perial Chancellorship
His views hitherto have been in accord
with Prince Bismarck's on this question,
and he has always held it to be an impossi-
bility to have the Offices held by two men.
This is not taken to mean that he is desirous
of holding both Offices in his own person,
but that under the existing condition of
politics it Would result disastrously to have
questions SO intimately connected with each
other as are Prussian questions with those
of the Empire, under the direction of sepa-
rate individuals
Nobody but the Emperor Knows
It can be further stated that the action of
the Emperor in the resignation of Count Won
Zedlitz-Trutschler has not vet been made
known, even to the Ministry. His Majesty's
decision on the reformation of the Cabinet
is still known only to himself
The date of the Emperor's return is un-
certain. 1t is reported that the condition
of his health necessltates on his part COM
plete abstinence from public business. The
Emperor has accepted the resignation of
Count Won Zedlitz
The Kreax Zeitang says Chancellor Won
Caprivi's prolonged retention in Office is
impossible. Once the crisis is over he must
resign, as he has lost the confidence of Par
Lament.
The Crisis Discussed in the Diet.
The debate on the bill removing the
sequestration placed by the Prussian
Government upon the property of the late
King George of Hanover, commonly
known as the Guelph fund bill, was
opened in the lower house of the Prussian
Diet to-day. The only Minister present
was DR.. Miguel, Prussian Minister of
Finance.
Herr Richter then moved to adjourn
the debate on the bill on the
ground of the Cabinet crisis and
the absence OF Count Won Zedlitz.
DR.. Miguel opposed the motion, declaring
that the Ministers continued in their duties
80 long as not dismissed Herr Richter
then moved that the House require the at
tendance Of Count Won Zedlitz Trutschler.
Both of Herr Richter's motions were de-
feated.