Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-19
FROM BEYOND SEAS.
Berlin Probably the Scene Of tho
Next Cabinet Crisis.
CApRIvI TO RETIRE.
His sueosssor to Ne Won Waidsrsse, II
Bsiisved-Cholsrs In wsstsrn
nussis--Notes.
rBy Anr,o-Amcrican cable to the Dispatca.I

fBy Anglo-Amcrican cable to the Dispstch-l
LONDON, March 1s.-Numerous signs in
the last week nave pointed to Berlin as the
scene of the next Cabinet crisis. The
feeling that at the last minute the En-
peror and his Chancellor would concede a
few thousand recruits rather than submit
TO q disheartening defeat on the army
bill in committee was current through
out the empire until the announce
ment was made that the National
Liberal offer of 5000 more recruits
had been finally refused. 1t then became
apparent to all that not only in committee
but also in the plenary sitting OF tine
Reichsta0 the army bill was doomed. ms
means at best a general election. n
government is dong it's best 10 defer an
appeal TO the people. who would be likely
to return n Parliament fully a. much op-
posed to the bill as the present one. be-
sides olecting many Anti-Semitics anu 30,
cial Democrats, the bitter enemies OF all
decent parties. Even the Conservatives
agree that Chancellor Won Caprivi has
been too unbendIng IN his attitude toward
the parties. and it IS believed that his
arrogance will cost him his Office.
cAPRIvI IN DIsYAvoR.
Twice during the past week he has borne
sharp reproofs from the Emperor who
was especially %chagrined by his Chancel-
lor's failure to close with Won Bennigsen.
who was willing TO deliver the forty votes
of the Central Liberal party If the Cham
cellor would abate his demands about ID
per cent. The news Of this interview was
whispered throughout the city on We'd
nesday afternoon two hours after IL TOOK
place. The withdrawal of the army bill
was said to be assured. and despite the ac-
~companying reports that Caprivi would re-
sign, prices on the Bourse rose several
points. A conspicuous broker gave a good
index of the situation when he said that
nothing would help the prices of German
securities more han the immediate retire
ment of Capriyi and his army bill.
cApRIvI's PROBABLE SUCCESS.
Tint the retirement of the success
sor of Bismarck is at hand few persons
doubt. Chancellor o Caprivi in
formed an East Prussian Conserva-
tive to-day that he was weary of office,
and that after the fate of the army
bill was decided he would retire. It is not
believed, however. that the Emperor Will
wait for q final decision on the bill before
calling q new man to the chancellorshlp.
Lieutenant o Huelsen has already been
dispatched to Altoona to convey letters
from the Emperor to General Won Walder-
see. and the report Is abroad that this able
soldier Is the coming man. The majority
Of the Conservatives look to Waldersee as
the rising sun in German politics, not only
ON account of the ~latter's increasingly
close relations with the Emperor. but also
because. after Caprivi. he is the only we'll
known German who is at once a capable
soldier and N astute politician.
The Radical press hints that April ISL.
or at latest May list, Will see the fall of the
present Chancellor. the appointment OF q
successor, aud a general parliamentary
election approaching in the near future.
The Conservative newspapers, led by the
Rreuz Zeitung. suggests the same eventual
Ity. The Social Democratic editors. with
Liebknecht, of the Vorlcdertz, at their
head, say plainly that the Caprivi regime
is failure and that the Emperor awaits
only a favorable opportunity to end it.