The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-20
.ASKIRMISH OVER A SUGAR BILL
THE FATE OF THE GERMAN MEAS
URE TO DE DECIDED TODAY.

Circles in BerIin-The Hamburger
Nachrichten Points Out the ImpOs-
sibiIity of RECONCILIATION with
France-The Duke of Edinburgh's
Allowance.
Berlin. May l9.-The sugar bill. over
which the Reichstag wrangIed for two
! days, although slightly favoring the ag-
rarians, had not any party Inspiration
and the government were therefore JUS
titled in their expectation that the meas
ure would pass without any trouble The
bill simply aimed to relieve the present
| great depression in the sugar trade by
maintaining high export bounties until
some international agreement could be
/ obtained with Austria and France regu-
/ lating the export premiums, or abolishlng
them altogether. Among other consider
ations pointing toward an international
! agreement the government were Of the
| opinion that It would lead to the estab-
lishment of an entente with the govern
ment at Washington and prevent differen-
tial treatment Of German sugar. Meth
er the Freisinnge party nor the social
lists had any genuine reason for oppos-
ing the bill, yet party rancor melted them
to the tactics designed to block the prog
ress of the measure.
Herr Won KardorT. the free conservative
| leader, caused a count out on Tuesday,
while the Fresinnige notion in regard to
| secrecy at election, was being debated and
the consequence was that when the sugar
bill was under discussion Thursday, Herr
| Singer, on behalf of the socialists, caught
the government mapping and retaliated
with a vengeance.
Discovering that there was only 169
members present, while it was necessary
that 199 should be in the chamber in or
der to constitute a quorum. Herr Singer
took advantage of the situation and caused
the sitting to come to a close. The same
tactics were repeated on Friday with the
same degree of success. Count Posadow-
ski, the imperial minister of the treasury,
appealed to the members of the left not to
demand a count, but his appeal was un-
| availing and the debate was adjourned
| until Monday, May 20, when, if there is no
| quorum present, the bill will be dropped
and the session closed.
| as imperial prime minister of Austria TO
succeed Count Kalnoky, was both a sur
| prise and a shock in official circles in
| Berlin. Count Goluchowski is a Pole who
| has definite and well known national sym
pathies. He is the son of a man who,
while holding the Office of governor of
| Austrian -Galacia did not make any ef-
| fort to conceal his strong antipathy to-
ward Germany. He has strong clerical
convictions, and was for some time closely
associated with the French imperialists.
From a German official point of view his
appointment seems to be the very worst
selection that Emperor Francis Joseph
could have made He certainly possesses
no diplomatic repute whatever. Ability
in that field he may have, although he has
had some diplomatic experience
in limited capacities His first
appointment was in 1872, when he
was made an attache of the Austrian en-
bassy here. From this post he was trans
ferred to Paris, where he served as coun-
sellor of the Austrian embassy at the
French capital Count Goluchowki mar
ried a daughter of Prince Joacaquim DIu-
rat and through her became very wealthy.
From Paris he was transferred to the Aus
trian legation at Bucharest This change
was made for the reason that Count Golu-
chowski had been black balled by the
Paris Jockey Club, upon the ground that
MS pIOnOllOn 10 the RANKS OF lne HODllly
was of too recent date Not very much
later he was recalled from Bucharest and
sent into retirement, because the govern
ment at Buda-Pesth had made charges
against him as having shown a woeful
went of energy in dealing with the ROu-
manian irredentists Diplomats here in
terpret the mystery of the appointment of
such man as the successor Of Count
Kalnoky as due to the desire of Count
Kalnoky to keep his ablest rival, Count de
Kallay, out of the post. 1t was upon the
advice of Count KalnolSy that Count Co
luchowski was made prime minister, and
it is regarded as perfectly plain in diplO-
matte circles here that Count Kalnoky
made the recommendation because he re-
lied upon Count Goluchowski's inevitable
blunders to bring about his Kalnoky's)
recall to the post. As Count Goluchowsl6i
is an unknown quantity in the exalted
position he holds however, there is pos
sibility and not very remote one either
that Count Kalnoky may have over
reached himself.
The Hamburger Nachrichten in the early
part of last week originated a report that
the entente entered into by France and
Germany and Russia in regard to the
Chino-Japanese treaty of peace extended
so far as to embrace the Anglo-Egyptian
question, this, of course, at the benest Of
France The majority of the press of
Germany, however, highly approve the
idea that closer relations with France can
be obtained through common action
against Great Britains territorial greed,
but the Hamburger Nachrichten, which
is tacitly regarded as expressing the views
of Prince Bismarck upon all political sub
jects of importance and all matters of in
ternational concern, recurring to the sub
ject, warns Germans against taking a too
optimistic view of the results to be OBJ
tanned from a concerted action with
France.
France" the Nachrichten says, "is en-
durable, but d reconciliation with France
is impossible. Not even would the resti-
tuition of Reichstand and the return of the
milliards of francs of indemnity which
France paid would be sufficient to satisfy
the French. Only a successful war and
reconquered prestige Leur Gloire, would
content them. At the same time" Prince
Bismarcks organ continues, Eve urge
the necessity of joint action to curb Brit
ish expansion"
The Coburg newspapers are taking a
lively interest in the debates in the Brit
ish parliament in regard to the English
allowances to the Duke of SaXe-Coburg
as the Duke of Edinburgh If his royal
highness were to heed the public and
private comments, the papers agree, ne