The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
A COUP D'ETAT FOR GERMANY.
OVERTHROW OF UNIVERSAL SUI
FRAGE STILL TALKED on.

The stroke Might Involve DissoIu-
tiOn Of the Empire and the Loss Of
AIsnce-LOrraine-A Motion to AboI-
ish Universal Suffrage Apt 20 BE
Adopted by the PrusSinn Landtag.
No Immediate Change in the Min
istry Probable.
Berlin. May 1S-The failure of the lead
ing government projects does not seem to
have impaired the position of either Chan
cellor Won Hohenlohe or Herr Won Koeller,
the Prussian minister of the interior Both
the foreign and home press over-hastily
concluded that changes in the ministry
would inevitably follow the defeat OF the
anti-revolution and tobacco tax bills. for
getting how these measures. particularly
the anti-revolution bill originated The
press blamed the chancellor and Herr Won
Koeller as the authors of the measures
that Count Won Caprivi who was chancel-
lor when the bill was drafted. would un-
doubtedly have been entrusted TO carry
through the House if the emperor had not
found the time opportune to dismiss him.
The emperor is credited with regretting
that he has TO rely upon Herr Won Koel-
ler's manner Of handling debates both in
committee and the plenary sittings OF the
House. A report is current that hearing
some one allude to Herr Won Koeller's
style as offensive to the Reichstag, the
emperor said; quite right"
Herr Won Koeller to-day inaugurated the
industrial exhibition at Strassburg in the
presence Of a large concourse Of people
from many parts of the empire.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe continues
to placidly watch the course of affairs
from the chancellory.
The emperor has been hunting all the
week, regardless of the ministerial crisis.
The papers have insisted that until the
the emperor returns 10 Berlin the ques-
ton of what the government Will do after
| its series Of defeats will not be decided.
The semi-ofiicial Schlesische Zeitung de-
clares that ii Is impossible to conduct the
government with a Reichstag elected by
universal suffrage. As the Reichstag Will
not consent to modify the electoral law,
coup detat viii be necessary. The em-
ptre, the paper adds, must be recon-
stituted on a new basis. including uniVer-
sal suffrage Gen. Count Won Waldersee
is suggested as the guide for the state
through the revolution.
The Kleine Journal. commenting upon
! the subject of the coup d'etat, says that
such a stroke, involving the dissolution
of the empire, would entail the gravest
complications, notably a revision of the
treaty Of Frankfort. and perhaps the
loss of the Alsace-LOrraine and the Han
seattle towns.
In order to show the way to a new con-
dition of things, Count Pfeil HansdOrf will
prepare a motion for submission to the
/ Landtag proposing the abolition of uni
! versal suffrage and the secret ballot. This
| proposed motion is already receiving the
! adhesion Of a large number Of members.
| The upper house of the Dandtag is certain
| to adopt the motion and even the lower
| house is likely to approve it. Under Prus-
! Sia'G electoral system the adoption of such
a motion would mean no more than dec
laration of a general principle, but 1t
might help to expedite a grand imperial
crisis. The conservatives in the Landtag
aim at the immediate adoption of a prac-
tical anti-reVolution measure for Prussia,
German states will follow Prussia's ex-
ample AS Baden, Bavaria and Wurtem-
burg are not likely to concur in the plans
of Prussia, Germany may become the bat
tlefield of policies tending TO weaken the
empire.
The Wochenblatt, Deputy Arendts pa
per. urges the appointment of a strong re-
formed ministry, with Gen. Bronson Won
Schellendorf, at present Prussian minister
of war as imperial chancellor.
After the extreme heat, severe cold has
set in. Snow has fallen in southern and
western Germany and there have been
heavy snow storms in Galicia and Posen.
The Won Kotze affair has now entered
it's final phase. He has now recovered and
Duke Ernest Gunther and Count Hohenau
have come to Berlin to congratulate Won
Kotze on his restoration to health. Hands
were shaken by the sometime opponents,
and it was agreed to let bygones be by