The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-31

Earded in Paris.
BERLIN. oct. "a great stir was
caused in wel.-informed quarters this al
terno5n by the receipts of a telegram from
Cologne giving the substance Of an article
IN the senli-officiaI Cologne Gazette,
which stated that Chancellor Won Caprivi
and Count Botho "a Gutenberg. president
Of the Prlssian council Of ministers. had
resigned.
II is known that for some time past
there has been considerable tension be-
tween the chancellor and Gutenberg. OW-
ing 10 me formers views IN regard t.
the measures To be submitted 10 the
relchsJ : for the repression Of socialists.
TIE Chancellor Is in favor Of pursuing a
moderate policy, while Gutenberg believes
IN the adoption OF radical measures 10
obtain the end sought. II was said that
a the recent meeting OF the Pruzsian
council, held 10 consider the question Of
the repressive measures. q majority of the
ministers supported Capriyi's ideals bu-
whether IL Is true or nos is mere-y a mat
Ter or conjecture AT any rate those who
are supposed to be generally wei informed
IS To the situation place credence in the
Cologne GaZette's statement that both #
Icial5 have resigned. The Gazette added
that th.s chancellor rendered his resigua-
tloa TO Emperor William ON Tuesday, but
that Il was On.y accepted at an audience
given By his majesty - Caprlv today.
A rumJr is in circulation that DIR.
Johannes MIGUEL. PrUss!an minister Of
finance. viii Be appointed in succession TO
Caprivi, but this report is declared on
good authority 20 be uufounded.
L IS now kllyWn as q fact thac CaDrivi's
res grafton mas been accepted by Emperor
William. The resignation Of Gutenberg
has not been accepted. il has been
learned that tina chancellor resigned be
fore Il meeting Of representative states
fn@D Of the federal states. which was he'd
CHS afternoon. This meeting showed the
existence Of great disrord regarding the
proposed anti-TevOluriouary bill
Gutenberg. ther5up0n. resigned Thus
confronted by the double resignation En-
peror William abandoned his proposed
visit 10 Blankeuburg. for which place he
was 10 have started this afternoon.
The fact that the emperor had given ND
his trip was announced in the official
reichsanzesigr without explanation. The
emperor gave an audience TO Caprivi and
erdeavored tn induce him to withdraw his
resignation. but the chancellor was OBJ
dUrate and refused to do So The en-
perez remained az the castle until "a late
hour comforting with Gutenberg, DR..
MIGUEL and others. The question of who
will succeed Capriyi is the subject of
ton 70 Dr. MIGUEL both "a Gutenberg and
DR.. Won Bennigsen, leader of the national
liberal party and governor of Hanover
are mentiOnel. but il Is believed that the
new chancellor VIII be a compromise can
didate
The representative Of the Associated
Press made an attempt at 10 o'clock to-
night 10 Interview Caprivi, but was in
formed that he had retired.
BERLIN. oct. 27-Copyrighted. 1894
H. 81.
evening II was announced that Prince
HOheniohe-Shillingsfu governor Of
Alsace-Loraine. has accepted the chan
cel.Orship, after first declining that honor
The prince also accepted the premiership
OF Prussia and Herr Won KoelIer, under
secretary Of the interior for the province
Of Alsace-Loraine, succeeded Gutenberg as
PrlLssian minister Of the interior Much
attention has been aroused by the honor
Wnlcn Emperor William paid 10 Prince
Hohen.ohe-ShiIingsfu and Herr Won
KoeLer. BY going to Wild Park station
10 meet them and giving them apartments
N the new palace. The emper0r's choice
OF HohenlGhe for chancellor Is taken as
evidence that ms majesty does not intend
70 ad9pt the extreme view OF the meas
ureS required 70 arrest The spread Of So
cialism. Hohen-ohe. although seventy
IouF years ola, IS very active physically
and mentally
The thunderbolt which wound I'D this
surprise 10 the political word in general
mas been clearly and exclusively fore
Swallowed in the dispatches to the Asso-
ciated Press. and its correspondent here
IS now in position TO state that the in
formation Wnlch he has cabled upon this
subject was obtained from Chancellor Won
CapT1vl himself although the correspond
ent was not then able to make public the
source Of his Information Now how
ever, Caprivi il again private citizen and
the seal Of silence imposed by his office
has been removed from his lips and he
consented 10 give the Associated Press an
interview for publication.
In consequence, the correspondent called
az Gen. Won CaPrivi's residence last even
ing and the general repeated what he mad
previously said. that the leading question
upon which he found 1t impossible 70
reconcile his own views with those Of the
emperor ana Count BOtho III Gutenberg
was the anti-revolutionary measures
The second bone Of contention between
the same parties, he added, was the pro-
posed treatment OF the Polish question
Caprivi said that he could not acunesc7
10 EulenbergS opinion that drastic and
exceptional measures were necessary to
cope with the progress Of socialism. More
over ne was convinced that they would
not be ratified by the reichssag. The gem
eral asserted that he himself was thor
oughly conservative, but that he did not
believe in reacJOnary measures. such as
Gutenberg proposed. Containing Caprivl
said:
Il have made an honest attempt TO fall
Into line with the views Of his majesty
and Count Gutenberg. but have failed
Ny whole policy has been based upon
reconciliation OF the social differences and
Cancellation Of the Poles Both questions.
however. have been rendered acute, lately
against my own advice.
Chancellor and kaiser Confer.
L. an audience the chancellor was given
BY the emperor the latter expressed his
dissatisfaction that CaDrivi was wit9otit
wording majority in the reichstar
which. in his maiesty's opinion, accounted
for the fact that the adoption Of tho pro-
posed socialist measures was doubtful.
The emperor also insisted upon a reunion
Of the chancellorship and the Prussian
preniership.and here again Caprivi found
himself directly at variance with the
views Of the emperor. The retiring chan
cellor practically finished up the business
or the chancellerie at o'clock yesterday
afternoon when his aid-de-camp. Mai.
Ebmyer, left and the general spent the
evening quietly at his residence seeing a
few friends ana retired at an early hour.