The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-08
A GERMAN UPHEAVAL.
Chancellor and Prime Minister
Have Resigned.
THAT OF CAPRIvI IS ACCEPTED

Decided Difference Regarding the Treat
ment of Socialism Brought About the
Crisis-Immediate Cause OF the Cham
cellor's Resignation Not Clear.
BERLIN, October 29.-The report that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has handed his
resignation to the Emperor and that it
has been accepted is confirmed. Count
Eulenburg, President of the Ministerial
Council, has also resigned. DR.. Miguel,
the Prussian Finance Minister, it is ru-
mored, has been appointed President OF
the Council, and Prince Won Hohenlohe
Schillingsfurst, Governor of Alsace-Lor-
raine, has been offered the Chancellor
ship. Before offering the Chancellor
ship to Prince Hohenlohe the Emperor
consulted with the ENJOYS from Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Saxony and Baden. 1t is
reported that Prince Hohenlohe declined
the Office, owing to his age. The EN-
Waldersee, the political soldier, who was
Bismarck. The general inference is that
cessor. Should Waldersee become Chan
cellor, the office of Prussian Premier
probably would he given him shortly
after, and thus the division of the two
posts, which was effected at the time of
the school bill crisis, would be ended.
There is a rumor that General Bronsart
Ic Iofo for
Prussian Premiership and the Chancel-
lorship. Either of these Generals would
be acceptable to the Conservatives, who
have become totally estranged from the
government under the Caprivi regime.
The immediate cause of Chancellor
Won Caprivi's resignation is not entirely
clear. 1t is known, however, that the
differences between him and Count b.
tho Eulenburg had grown too sharp to
be ignored or compromised. Caprivi at
first was thoroughly opposed to severe
steps against the Social Democrats and
the anarchists, while Eulenburg favored
extreme measures. Under pressure from
the Emperor the Chancellor is said to
have yielded several points during the
week, but his master only led him into
trouble with the Federal Ministers, in
whose Council he presided. Several
Ministers opposed his proposal that the
Reichstag amend the penal code 80 as to
deal more severely with the Socialists.
The individual States, they said, should
be left to legislate within their own bor-
ders for the suppression of Social Democ-
racy and anarchy. The Chancellor was
equally embarrassed when the question
of financial reforms were preached. The
ENJOYS made several demands for changes
in the financial relations of the States
to the Empire, but the Chancellor was
manifestly out of sympathy with all of
them.
Caprivi is believed to have been crushed
between the Emperor and the Federal
ENJOYS, not gong far enough to suit the
former and going too far to suit the lat
ter. The difficulties of his position were
increased, moreover, by the intrigues of
MIGUEL and Eulenburg, who for more
than year have spared no effort to dis
credit his politics and diminish his in
fuence with the crown. One of the
Chancellor's last acts before offering his
resignation was to notify the Reichs
Bank that the decree prohibiting adj
vances on Prussian stocks had been cam
celled as no longer necessary on either
economic or political grounds. The EN-
peror had arranged to leave Potsdam to-
day to hunt in the neighborhood of
Blankenburg, but he gave up the trip in
view of the disruption of his Cabinet.
The Cologne Gazette says that the
Chancellor rendered his resignation to
Emperor William Tuesday, but that it
was only accepted at an audience given
by his Majesty to Caprivi to-day. The
Emperor endeavored to induce Caprivi
to withdraw his resignation, but the
Chancellor was obdurate and refused to
do so. William is credited with holding
the opinion that the separation of the
CHARACTERISTIC and the Russian Premier
ship has been failure, and that it is
imperative to reunite them. Among the
many reports as to the cause of the crisis
is one that Caprivi displeased the EN-
peror by expressing disappyoval of his
Majesty's speech at the recent presenta-
ton of colors to 1872 regiments. The
Emperor at that time limited that the
half battalions would soon be made full
ones. The Chancellor not only disap.
proved of this speech, but also opposed
the publication of it in the Reichs An
zeiger. 1t is due to his opposition that
the speech has not yet appeared in Of
fetal form.
Che prot Her HOpne.