The herald., 1895-05-26
A Chemical Experiment That
Pleased the Emperor
IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE
Ministers Reproached for Dreleiction Of
Duty
Uphcayal In Political Circles Is Anticipated
Bismarck Is Said to Be bimetallist.
Other Events Of Interest
Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
.bBERLIN. Nav o5.-The work OF the
reichstag session, which has just closed,
was mainly OF a negative character. In
an unexpected parting attack on the gov
ernment. Just previous to the ADJOURN
ment, Count Won Kanitz reproached the
ministers with this fact. He declared
that the members of the reichstag might
as well leave Berlin empty handed as to
return to their constituencies with mis-
cradle pieces of legislation touching upon
sugar and spirits"
Such results, he added, could only in
crease the discomfort in the country. The
government he insisted. had done moth
ing in spite of all the promises made by
the ministers to relieve agricultural dis
tricts and he demand ed that the govern
ment either draft new bill by the
autumn or accept his motion to raise the
price of cerea Is.
Baron Won Manteuffel said that the
whole Conservative party subscribed to
the opinions on this subject OF Count Won
Kanitz. DR.. Won Boetticher, imperial
secretary OF state for the interior. in re-
ply said that he regretted $50 little had
peen done during the session, but he add
ed that the government had not felt en-
couraged to prolong it in the face OF such
empty ben ches as had recently been seen
In the house.
One of the chief features OF the session,
which has not been without starting in
cidents, has been the rapid growth OF BIZ
metallic agitation. The bimetallic party
has been even more successful in the Prus-
sian diet than in the reichstag, inasmuch
as the resolution of the diet, instead of
oaGi
conference as the reichstag did, instruct
ed the chancellor, Prince Won Hohenlohe,
much against his liking, to persuade the
'bundesrath to so frame invitations TO
the monetary conference as to make it
plain from the staw that Germany wishes
to bring about the general adoption of O
double standard.
DR.. MIGUEL, the PrussiaD minister of
finance, however. in his speeches on the
subject in the diet, while doing his ut
most towards conciliation of fthe
Conservatives. is careful to bind the gov
, ernment as little as possible to any def
mite policy. Practically, however, there
is no doubt that the bundesrath will
empower the government to invite the
powers to send representatives to none
tary conference.
Finding no support for the bill advo-
Gated BY Count Won Kanitz looking to
state monopoly of the sale of grain, they
regard money standard as one of the big
remedies which they claim the govern
msnt owes them and they will be sat-
isfed with nothing less.
It is interesting ITO note that Prince
Bismarck in his recent table talk with
the Saxon deputation, declared himself
to be a bimetallist, saying to Mayor
Beck of Freiborg that he was obliged,
when in Office, to yield his own convic-
tionss to the opinions OF currency ex-
perts.
Rumor still busies itself with the prob
abilities of ministerial crisis and that
Count Won Eulenbeg, Count Won Wal
desee and Count Won Radowaski, the
German ambassador at Madrid, are can
vassed as possible successors to Prince
Hohenlohe.
Emperor william. after indulging in
deer stalking to his hearts content, is
back in Berlin, looking remarkably we'll.
Whilesa guest at Wierchkowitz the en-
peror was present at an exhibition given
by Herr Fielder, an inventor of Berlin,
on a new fluid. The exhibition took place
on the lake near the castle. The inventor
poured some of the fluid into the waters
Of the lake, and directly in coming in
contact with them it burned upwards,
giving a high flame on the surface. A
Strange feature of the exhibition was in
the fact that the flames coud be pushed
aside at will by the boatmen on the lake.
The emperor was highly interested in the
spectacle and expressed the opinion that
the invention can be made use of in case
OF war.
&. Emperor William has painted fine pic
ture representing Pagel :of Nibelunglay
fame, and has presented it to the new
German ironclad Hagen, where it adorns
the mess room.
The empress of Germany and her chill
dren will pass part OF the hot summer
season at Wyk-on-Fohr island in the
North seg, where four villas have been
rented for the use OF her majesty and her
suite.
The measures to- be taken in order to
counteract the effects OF the Am erican
petroleum combine are still under consid-
Grafton by the government. For one
thing it is proposed to differ betwee raw
and refined petroleum in the levying of
duty so as to permit the establishment of
oil refneries in Germany. 1t has also
been decided to allow the bringing into
the general market of mixtures OF Russ
an and American petroleum.
Steps for the complete reconciliation
If Count Won kotze and his traducers
are still pending. In accordance with the
wishes of the emperor, Duke Gunther OF
Ichleswig-H -Holstein and Count Won Ho-
henau had to call on Count Won Kotze
this week and expressed their sympathies
with him. And 50 the great court scan-
dal arising from the series of anonymous
communications sent for years past to
various high personages is gradually
being smothered over The chief of the
general staff, Count Schlieffen, is not at
tending to this matter, and the court pro-
ceedings which would have been person.
ally distasteful to the emperor have been
entirely suspended.
ALTGELD AND HIS RECORD