The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-19
GERMAN AFFAIRS OF STATE.
No Split in The Ministry Over the
Russian Treaty.

No Immediate Changes in the Ex-
ternal or Internal Policy of the Em-
pire to Follow the Treaty's Ratihoa-
tion-Changes in the Personnel Of
Government Ohicers-An Anti-Mon-
arohicaI Debate in the ReichstaR.
Copyright, 1894, by the United Press)
Berlin, March 1S.-Count Schouvaloff
celebrated the ratification of the recipro-
city treaty with dinner at the Russian
embassy last night. The list of his guests
proves that, as Chancellor Won Caprivi
said in the reichstag, the ministers stood
shoulder to shoulder behind him in the
struggle against the agragrians. 1t in
cluded the names of all the ministers who
were supposed to be opposing the treaty
and trying to preciptate a cabinet
crisis on account of it. There
were no speeches except toasts
to the emperor and car which were de-
manded by form. Both toasts, however,
were so notably cordial as to show the
heartiness with which the entente had
been concluded. Emperor William ap-
peared in a Russian uniform at the dinner,
in Russian. The Sunday newspapers say
thai these facts prove the complete re-
viyal of the entente between Germany
and Russia.
NO CHANGE IN POLICY.
Whatever departure from his former
policy the emperor may contemplate
nothing occurred at last nights dinner to
indicate that the new treaty would effect
any immediate changes in the internal
or external policy of the empire. The
truth is that state affairs will lie fallow
for the next three weeks, which the en-
peror will pass with his family in Abba
zia. When the landtag and reichstag
assemble after the Easter holidays they
will find everything as they left them
The parties viii not be disturbed for the
present with any alteration of the govern
ment programme, as the ministers are no
less anxious than their chief for a short
rest.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL.
The newspapers are filed with rumors
of pending changes in the personnel of the
government officers. DR. Won Boettichere,
imperial secretary of the interior, is ex-
pected to retire in favor of Herr Won Koel-
| Ter, now under secretary for Alsace and
! Lorraine. Herr Won Richthoffen, president
! of the Berlin police, is said to be on the
| point of resigning The most likely can
| didates for his place are Herr koenigs-
| doerf, president of the council in Cassel,
or the emperor's favorite, Herr Staub-
| benrauch.
All these rumors are approximately cor
rect Herr Won Richthoffen is disliked by
the chancellor, and hated by the social
| democrats and radicals, who are in the
| large majority in Berlin. He fills well
| an Office which has become as important
| as any in the empire, however, and
neither the chancellor nor emperor is
sure of finding a man equally efficient for
| his duties. AS soon as the proper sue
| cessor shall be found, Herr Richthoffen
| will be thrown over.
In official circles many other changes in
the administrative Offices are expected
| shortly but none of them will affect the
| internal or external policy of the govern
ment They will be purely personals
| AN ANTI-MoNARCHIAL DEMONSTRATION.
While the closing debates in the treaty
! were comparatively tame, the grant for
the monument to Emperor William was
! discussed with great bitterness by the
| deputies. The social democrats and rad
| icals surpassed themselves. They made
| the debate an anti-monarchical demon
stration, such as the reichstag had
not witnessed before for many years.
| August Bebel, the social democratic
| leader, had the audacity to declare that
| the social democrats as a party were
| animated by anti-dynastic and anti-mon-
| archial principles, and could never assent
! to vote for the erection of monument to
a man who represented all that was hos
tile to their sentiments. This and much
more of the same sort the deputies of the
right and center greeted with only mild
| protests, although former reichstags
would have howled down anybody max
| ing such declaration from the speakers
| tribune.
THE CURRENCY COMMISSION.
The imperial currency commission will
resume work on April Q. To simply the
| commissions deliberations the govern
ment has issued a statement of the minis
! terial attitude on the silver question.
| The statement concerns especially the
| chancellOr's proposal to remint and issue
| in mark pieces some % 900, 900 marks
worthO thalers now lying idle in the I'm
! perial bank. 1t says that at the end
| of Decent Der the Imperial bank held
| silver valued ut S2.720000 marks.
| Since December the bank has
received from its branches applications to
! increase their stock by 80 494 900, but
| only per cent. of the amounts called for
the Rhine country, Westphalia and Sax
| ony have complained much of the lack of
! the larger silver coins which are used in
paying wages. In view of these COM
| plants and the demands Of solid business
! interests in other parts of the empire,
Count Won Mirbach, Herr Won Kardoft
! and other agrarian bimetallists are re-
/ garded as hardly justified in their
opposition TO the chancellor's proposals.
Their aim however, is evident. 1t is to
! drive the government to convene an inter
national conference on the silver ques-
tion. AS money matters become compli-
Gated by the changes in progress in Aus
tria, Italy, and India, it is Just possible
that the bimettalists will accomplish
something by their constant nagRing. For
political ends, chiefly to appease the
agrarians, the government may assent to
initiate the conference
CAMERooNs HENTERLAND
Men interested in the colonial affairs
| think that the foreign Office was some
! what overreached in the convention with
! France as to the Cameroons Hinterland.
/ Petitions from German firms in the AT
/ rican trade are pouring into the foreign
( Office. All beseecn the government to
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