The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-10
BISMARCK MAKES A SPEECH.
Il REMARKABLE ADDRESS TO A crowd
THAT VISITED HIM.

The Ex.Chnnceiior Advises the small States
TO Unite Their Votes and Prevent Prus-
rin from Carrying Everything before Her
He Denounces Bureaucracy and Other
Ills that Amict the Federal Government.
BERLIN. July n.-About 400 excursionists
from tho principally OF Lppe- Detmold visited
Prince Bismarck in Friedriohsruhe to-day.
Roth the Prince and the Princess responded to
the cheers Of the excursionists by appearing
on the balcony OF the castle.
Despite the recent reports OF the Princess's
bad health she looked strong and cheerful.
Prince Bismarck, as usual, wore q black coat,
white neoktie, and SLOUGH hat
He made n notable speech concerning the
relations OF the smaller Federal States to tho
empire After referring briefly to tho most
remarkable features Of carly German life, he
described Lippe- Detmold as the scene OF the
first German revolt against the foreign yoke
in the days when tho German hero Armenius
swept the Romans from the country. He thcn
discussed the Significance OF the small Ger
man States. He expressed the opinion that
their Parliamonts ought to influence tho policy
OF tho empire moro powerfully by criticising
the action OF their represe natives In the
Federal Council OF tho empire.
The number OF votes held In the Federal
Council should not be diminished. lest the
national German empire be supplanted by q
great all-controllinG Prussia. Tho Prince con-
cuded his speech with these remarkable
words:
There are seventeen Federal States having
only a single vote each in the Federal Council.
II l deduct the Hanscatic cities. which differ
SO radically from all the others there are four
teen such States. and fourteen votes In the
Federal Council are weghty matter II they
keep together. II added to the Prussian votes
they always give Prussia o majority Of the
Federal Council
THE council may be divided. as 1t were. in
three cataRories-the small States. with q vote
each: Prussia, with eighteen votes, and the
middle States with twenty-:our votes Thus
you see what weight the small States have. /
wonder that no politician has arisen in one
the other OF them to turn this state Of affairs
to account.
you wish to call it such, over the fact that tho
national idea has not caught fire in the Par
liaments and Governments Of the federated
States. as twenty or twenty-five years ago I
hoped 1t would.
Il mus: apologize for directing your atten-
ton to these matters. Unfortunately / am not
strong enough to appear in the ReichstaG.
| could deliver speech there occasionally.
Would sntaii. You must Therefore ," excuse ss
creating creates, I Inlet upon you my my
s thu w nnF' whom s ns t1a s
Gaered. will not become autocrats again;
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whenever they please in the Reiehstag. Sup.
pose l we're we're YOUNG and strong enonbh 10
FEDERAL f G ns Council Of nse German rrinoe enc
yours, for Instance. Suppose were to
CONVICTIONS We're opposed by the majority OF
the Federal Council Would not my speeches
in the Rrichstag make an impression. as COM
ing from a personage whose antecedents were
known throughout Germany
"Such personages are not extinct in Ger
many, and they ought to he placed In q position
to influence directly public afiairs: II would
smaller States to express the opinions to
WHICH no official attention has been paid.
II sum up all these reflections thus: God
preserve for us the constitution Of the
for us the present number Of Federal
government whish form the Federal Council.
that the latter may ut all times stand by tho
side Of the Relch,stag; as isgisatiye coeff.
absolutely, equal rights. 10 this end it is
necessary that God should preserve the house
OF your Prince. l therefore beg you to Join me
iR wishing that God L, may grant long life to
Repeated cheers were given for the Prince
by the Lippe excursionists after he closed his
The strong States.rights sentiments ex-
pressed IN the speech aroused as much sur-
prise as enthusiasm.
BECAUSE or THE SILVER SITUATION