St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16
IRON PRINCE HAPPY.
THE REIcHSTAG PASSES THE ARMY
BILL BY rs MAJORITY,
Won oAPRIvI TO BE A PRINCE.

Cheers for the Kaiser, Who Had
Been Very Much Excited Dur
ing the Discussion of the Bill
His Highness Leaves for Dem
mark.
BERLIN, July 15.-The government
hoped that the third reading of the
army bill today would be merely formal,
and that the session of the reichstag
would close in time to enable the en-
peror and the ministers to congratulate
each other on the passage of the bill
over luncheon, but events were Or
dered otherwise. Chancellor Won Cap
rivi had been suffering so severely from
the infiamed veins in his legs that his
doctors urged him not to appear in the
house. Though he was visibly ill last
evening he was obliged to continue his
official work, which he did in recin-
ing position. The excitement of the
situation revived him today, however,
and he looked happy and animated.
He was accompanied to the reichstag by
DIR. Won Boetticher, secretary of the i'm
perial home office, and Frieherr Mar
schall Bieberstein, minister of foreign
affairs.
Soon after the bill was put on its final
passage, and after the speaking had
commenced it became certain that the
leaders of the opponents of the govern
ment meant business and that they did
not intend to let the measure be adopted
in a perfunctOry manner. The at
mosphere of the house felt too electric
for formalities. Speaker after speaker
paid less attention to attacking or sup
porting the bill than to railing at their
political opponents. The chancellor.
secure in the government majority of
eleven votes given yesterday Oh the sec
ond reading of the bill, wasted no words
in responding to the attacks made upon
the measure. He listened to the dis
cusSion for an hour and half, and at
3:45 o'clock disappeared from the house,
knowing that the bill was
Safe of Adoption.
1t was learned subsequently that he
had left the house to see the emperor.
The kaiser had become impatient, and
had driven up to the minister's private
entrance. through which he entered the
parliamentary buildings. The chancel-
lor was summoned to meet him. They
were closeted together IN the chancel-
lor's private room for half an hour.
it is understood that his majesty
urged the chancellor to have the bill
carried through the house at one, as he
desired to start tonight for Kiel, from
which place he intends to go
-" BOrnholm, an island be-
Ion ing to Denmark. He did not
ucslre to leave Berlin until he
knew positively the result of the vote
Oh his pet measure. The chancellor
returned to the house and spoke priva-
tely to Herr Won Levitzow, the presi-
dent, and several members with a view
to expediting the close of the dis Gus
sion. The stream Of talk was still
steadily flowing OIL with no sign of a
check. The emperor, impatiently fun
ing outside, called for Freiherr Won
Stumm-Halberg, who went to his
majesty and reported progress. Prob.
ably finding that he could get nothing
but indefinite statements from this
source, the emperor left the building
before the division was taken.
The opposition organs contend this
evening that the majority OF sixteen in
favor of the bill is not large enough to
cause the government to eXult, espe-
claily as it was won by the chancellor
giving pledges TO the agrarianS and
anti-Semites that will certainly give
him trouble to fulfill.
But the government, with reason.
does eXuit, while its opponents fail to
conceal their chagrin. VeXation and
disappointment were plainly manifested
throughout today's
Hostile Speeches.
The emperor is delighted at the pass.
age of the bill. and rumor has it that he
will confer upon Chancellor Won Caprivi
the dignity of a prince.
If the debate today had been short
and decorous, as was expected in Off.
cial circles, the emperor might have ap.
peared in the house to close the session
Instead of closing the house in person
he gave that task to the chancellor, who
read the Imperial order Immediately
after the passage of the bill. He also
read a speech from his majesty saying
that the federal governments were
highly satisfied with the result of the
deliberations, and had firm confidence
that the reichStag would grant the sacri-
fees recognized as necessary. Events,
the speech continued, have not deceived
the firm convictions of the federated
governments that the proposed increase
of the army does not go beyond the alb
solute requirements. They are all the
more grateful in that they found that
the conviction as to the necessity of the
increase, which is spreading more and
more in the country, had finally moved
the reichstag to adopt the bill.
After the reading of the speech, the
chancellor added:
ut is special pleasure to me to be
charged to give you the emperor's
thanks"
President Won Levitzow then called
for three cheers for the emperor and
they were given with enthusiasm
by all the groups except the Socialists,
who had left the house before the
Chancellor Had Finished.
Yesterday Herr Bebel. the Social
Democrat leader, posing as the member
for Strasburg, charged Herr Feichter
the chief of police of that city, with
personally maltreating the populace
Incredible irritation, said Herr BebeI
prevailed among the Alsatians.
DR.. Won Boetticher announced that al