The record-union., 1893-01-03

high-water situation, and give the city
the advisory commission on sewage dis
posal suggested? Or will they adopt the
put-of policy, as was done with the
levee matter, and let the city be caught
/ by hot weather with it's hands tied? Are
| the Trustees prepared to take the re-
! sponsibiIity refusal to act will mean?
! THE STORY OF THE GUELPH FUND.
And now it is told in the dispatches
that it is the German legislators and other
officials who are charged with being cor
rupted by gold. The Guelph-fund scan
dial concerning the distribution Of that
fund promises to parallel in character,
though the sums involved are smaller,
the French canal corruption disgrace.
In February, 1865, the Guelph fund
was created. EX-King George of Hanover
and King William of Prussia agreed that
the latter should receive 10000 600 thalers
for his lost royal honors and privileges.
The capital was to be retained in trust by
Prussia and the interest to be paid in
perpetuity to the heirs of the Brunswick
Luneburg family.
At the time the Liberals bitterly OPP
posed the creation of the fund, on the
ground that the sum was enormously
large, and because King George had not
formally abdicated. Premier Bismarck
brought all his great influence to bear to
break down this opposition. The agree
| ment had been brought about by the
mediation. Of the British Government,
and Bismarck urged that by its accept
ance the exiled King had renowned his
claims.
A very few days after the grant
was voted the blind and erratic
King made a speech reasserting
his royal rights in unmistakable terms,
whereupon the Government impounded
the fund and the Diet confirmed the
action. Then arose the question what
should be done with the accruing inter-
est. 1t was finally resolved to make it a
secret-service fund, to be used in trus-
trating the schemes of the Guelph faction.
This accruing sum amounted to some
100000 marks annually. AS it was a
secret and detective fund the Progressists
named it the Reptile Fund"
That the fund was not put an end to by
restoring the principal, is accounted for
by the statement that those who favored
its creation always held that the family
of the ex-King might at any time come
forward, and under formal recognition of
the empire, claim the indemnity. Be
cause of the belief that some part of the
fund has been used in substituting the
semi press, the opposition parties
have applied to such papers the oppro-
brious title 1.-THE reptile press.''
Guelph is the name of several once
powerful German and Italian families.
A long line of Princes of the Guelphs
made Italian history for many years
in wars with the Ghibellines. The
Guelphs represented the democratic or
popular sentiment, their opponents the
aristocratic, and with the former the
Roman Pope sided. The chief family
strength finally became located in Ger
many. Out of that line through Princess
Kunigunde sprang the present royal
family of England and the ducal line of
Brunswick in Germany. Bavaria was
the chief stronghold of the Guelphs, who
also acquired through Henry the
Naughty the duchY of Saxony. He dis
puted the crown of Germany with Con-
rad Ill, and was defeated and put under
the ban of the empire in 1139, and Bavaria
went to Leopold of Austria, and Saxony
to Albert of Brandenburg; the latter re-
signed his duchy to the Guelph heir,
Henry the Lion, but his descendants
were ousted of the duchy.
In 1875 Frederick H., the Emperor.
created the Guelph heir, Ohio, grandson
of Henry, Duke of Brunswick and pen
stoned him off with some part of his fam
lily estates. From this heir descended
directly the reigning houses of England,
Hanover and Brunswick. In 1915, Han
over having been erected into a kingdom,
the Prince Regent, who became after
ward George ". of England, in honor OF
the house of Brunswick Hanover, estab-
lished the knighthood known as the
Guelphic Order of Hanover, the motto Of
which is Nee dspera teTTent.
In 1887, on the accession of Queen Vic
toria to the throne of Great Britain, Han
over by the Salic law was separated from
the British crown, and Ernest Augustus,
fifth son of George III. of England, and
known as Duke of Cumberland, became
King. In 1851, by treaty with Prussia,
Hanover Joined the German zollverein.
In the same year his son, George ",
came to the throne and was the last of the
Hanoverian Kings. In the war of 1866
Hanover sided with Austria, but was de-
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