The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-27
CAPRIVI TO GIVE UP POWER.
The ChanCellOT'S Resignation in the
EmpeTOT'S Hands.

The Chancellorship rendered to Prince
Hohenlohe, but the Latter Declines
the ofioe-A Belief That Gen. Count
Waldsrsee viii Be Given the Post.
Won Caprivi Crushed Between the
Emperor and the Federal Enjoys.
Berlin, Oct 26.-The conference of the
federal ministers is over and the various
members of that body took their departure
tonight. The ministers were unable to
arrive at a state of absolute accord and
Chancellor Won Caprivi went to Potsdam,
and owing to his failure to obtain the pos
tive support of the ministers rendered hir
resignation to the emperor. Count Botho
Ecu Eulenburg president of the ministe-
rial council, has also resigned. Dr. Mi
quel, the Prussan Finance Minister, has
been appointed president of the council
and Prince Won nlohe-shillingsfurst
governor of Alsaoe-Lorraine, has been Of
fered the chancellorship.
Before offering the chancenorship to
Prince Hohenlohe, Emperor William con-
suited with the ENJOYS from Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Saxony and Baden. It is
reported that Prince Hohenlohe declined
the office owing to his age
The emperor has summoned General
Count Waldersee, the political soldier
who was conspicuous in the final intrigues
against Prince Bismarck. The general
inference is that he intends to make him
Chancellor Won Caprivis successor
Should Count Waldersee become chancel-
lor, the Office of Prussian premier prob
ably would be given him shortly, and
thus the division OF the two posts which
was effected at tho time Of the schon
bill crisis would be ended. There is a
rumor that Gen. Bronsart Won Schellen-
dorf is a candidate for the Prussian pre-
miership and the chancellorship. Either
Of these generals would be acceptable
to the conservatives, who have become to-
tally estranged from the Caprlvi regime
The immediate cause of Chancellor Cap
privps resignation is not entirely clear.
1t is known. however, that the differ
ences between him and Count Botho Zu
Eulenburg had grown too sharp to be ig
nored or compromised. Chancellor
Caprivi at first was strongly opposed TO
severe steps against the social democrats
favored extreme measures. Under pres
sure from the emperor, the chancellor Is
said to have yielded several points early
in the week, but his master only got him
into trouble with the federal ministers,
in whose council he presided yesterday.
Several ministers opposed his proposal
that the Reichstag amend the penal code
so as to deal more severely with the So
cialists The individual states, they said,
should be left to legislate within their
own borders for the suppression Of the
social democracy and anarchy.
The chancellor was equally embarrassed
when the question of a call for reforms
was broached. The ENJOYS made several
demands for changes in the financial re-
lations of the state to tho empire But the
chancellor was manifestly out of sympa-
thy with all of them.
Chancellor Won Caprivi is believed to
have been crushed between the emperor
and the federal ENJOYS, not going far
enough to suit the former, and going too
far to suit the latter. The difficulties OF
his position were increased, moreover, by
the intrigues of DR.. MIGUEL and Count
Fulenburg, who for more than year have
spared no effort to discredit his policies
and diminish his influence with the crown.
One of the chancellor's last acts before
Offering his resignation was to notify the
Reichsbank that the decree prohibiting
advances of Russian stocks had been can
celled as no longer necessary, on either
economic or political grounds.
The emperor had arranged to leave Pots
dam to-day to hunt in the neighborhood
of Blackenburg, but he gave up the trip
in view of the resignation of his chancel-
lor.
London, oct. 26.-The Central News cor
RESPONDENT in Berlin sends this dispatch
concerning Chancellor Caprivis resigna-
ton: Count Won Capriyi resigned on
Oct g. but the emperor called upon him
and persuaded him to reconsider his
resignation. The relations between the
chancellor and Count Botho Zu Eulen-
burg, however grew more strained.
First Count Eulenburg and then Chancel-
lor Caprivi asked to be relieved to-day,
and the emperor promptly dismissed them
both. The emperor Is credited with hold
ing the opinion that separation of the
chancellorship and Prussian premiership
has been failure, and that it Is impern-
tive TO reunite them. Among the many
reports as to the cause Of the crisis Is one
that Chancellor Caprvi displeased the
emperor by expressing disapproYal Of his
maiesty's speech at the recent presenta-
ton of colors to 1872 regiments The en-
peror then hnted that the half battal-
ions would soon be made full ones. The
chancellor not only disapproves OF this
speech, but also opposed its publication
in the Riechsanzeger. II Is due to his op-
position that the speech has not yet ap-