The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-15
GERMAN POLITICS.
The Conservatives Seriously Divided OF
Questions of Policy.

| BERLIN, May 1.-THE discord among
| the Conservatives has become SO accentu-
| ated that the government can for some
| time to come disregard that party as an
| important factor in opposition. A COM
| mittee was appointed to arrange new
Conservative platform, but, following the
example of Herr HeldoIf, who withdrew a
mouth ago, two other prominent Con-
servatives, Count Manteuffel and Herr
Kleist, have retired, refusing to serve on
the committee. Herr Kleist's influence is
great, and it is expected that he will draw
after him number of the party who ara
now hest ating, and who, joining the Mod
crates, will create two balanced divisions,
right and left Conservatives, the latter
closely allied with the National Liberals
A committee representing the present
majority has modified the party's anti
Semitic policy. Instead Of proclaiming a
Judenhelze, the committee will now mere
ly recommend that the Jews be kept out of
the judiciary and other public offices.
Only the Saxon Conservatives want to
maintain the anti-Semitic plank un-
changed Their influence will have no
effect upon the committees decision. The
Freisinnige party has initiated a move
ment in the landtag aiming at democratic
reform in the Prussian electoral system
If the party succeed by the agitation in
arousing a national sentiment it will have
potent influence in the coming election.
The new army bill proposing to increase
the effective reserves, is not likely to be
introduced in the reichstag until autumn.
Herr Won Kaltenborn Strachan, Prussiau
minister of war, is certain to retire from
office before the bill is presented. Though
he is an able soldier, he is not debater,
nor would he be able to face the partisan
opposition the army measure will inevita-
bly, provoke. The resources required for
military reorganization will be derived
from duty on alcohol, which has now
been decided upon. 1t was reported that
duty will also be placed on beer. and that
proposition to tax newspaper advertise
ments is under consideration.
Some of the papers have printed articles
in extenuation of the emperor's public
approval of the soldier Luecke for shoot
civilian. They explain that Luecke was
threatened with melancholia, made so
owing to anonymous threats he had re-
ceived. The emperor, they say, desired to
counteract the influence of these anony-
nous communications. The excuse, how
ever. does not tally with the latest ac-
counts of the emperor's actions towards
Luecke, to whom he sent his photograph,
with his autograph and the words: "A
recompense for the faithful observance of
the watchword while on duty" The
Cologne Gazette affirms the truth of the
reported words of the emperor, encourage
ing the soldiers to the free use of their
arms against civilians.
The Hamburg authorities have seized
100 cases of American dried apples. They
claim that they contain oxide of zinc, hav-
ing been evaporated on galvanized iron
frames. Formerly they confscated ship
ments of dried apples passing through
Hamburg, but, in consequence of the pro-
tests of Mr.. Johnson, the American consul
there, they now confine their operations to
apples offered in the Hamburg market.
A gang of American sharps has been
successfully operating in Berlin in Confed
crate notes. The swindlers succeeded in
passing a large number of these notes. Iu
one instance they cheated widow, who
made her living by letting rooms to
dodgers, out of 2,0G0 marks by getting her
to change some of the notes for them