The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-02-18
SILVER IN GERMANY
International Monetary Con-
gress Proposed.
BIMETALIsM UNDER DISCUSSION
Resolutions Adopted Instructing the
Federal Government to Issue In
vitatIons to other Nations.

in the United States and Europe has
been the subject on which the political
and financial worlds in Berlin have been
chiefly occupied during the past week.
The financial troubles in the United
States are followed here with the closest
attention and the National Zeitung,
Cline's Journal and other newspapers
have commented at various lengths upon
the situation at Washington.
Wednesday night, during the subscrip-
ton ball at the Royal opera house, the
emperor showed the interest he felt in
the matter by engaging in a lengthy con-
versation with Mr.. Runyon, the Ameri-
can ambassador, on American financial
affairs. The conversation touched on the
tariff and political questions, but his
majesty asked to be informed more es-
pecially about the financial crisis, the
coinage troubles and the gold reserve in
the national treasury. On receiving the
information sought, he expressed hope
that financial matters in Mr.. Runyon's
country would be soon Strengthened out
again. He also took occasion to refer to
the close commercial relations between
Germany and the United States.
An important phase of the silver ques-
tion was reached today, when the reich
stag declared in favor of the resolution
submitted yesterday by Count von Mir
bach, an agrarian leader, summoning an
other international conference on the
currency question. Mirbach g resolution
instructed the federal government to
issue invitations for an international
monetery congress, to take action for the
rehabilitation of silver as circulating
medium. Previous to its adoption,
Count Won PoSadowaky-Wegne secre-
tary of state for the imperial treasury, in
behalf of the government, declared it's
sympathy with the object aimed at by
the resolution. The resolution, which
was submitted to the reichstag by Mir
bach, had received the signatures of an
unusually large number of the 210 mem
bers of that body, comprising conserva-
tives, national liberals, ultra-montaines,
and members of other parties. Among
the signers were to be found not only
the names of professed bimetalists, but
JULIET n0IAOSTS WHO nave nOF6COIOTc
maintained a more or less neutral atti-
tude on the question of bimetalism.
One of the signers was the son of Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor.
The bimetalists who signed the motion
want nothing more or less than EE::metal-
Ism. But they have been prevented
from formulating motion to that effect
by the opposition of their moderate col
leagues, who did not desire an alteration
of the gold currency. There is a sus-
picion ahoat that the support of the lat
ter is not entirely genuine, but has as its
motive desire to bring about an inter-
national conference, whose decision,
they believe, would be adverse to the re-
instatement of silver, and thus settle the
question for some time to come. The re-
suit of the debate was fore-shadowed
yesterday, when Prince Hohenlohe in
dicated the attitude of the government
in carefully-worded declaration, which
he read, as follows:
without prejudicing our imperial
currency, one must confess that the diff
ference in the value of gold and silver
continues to react upon our commercial
life. Following, therefore, the tenden-
cies which lead to the appointment of a
civil commission. I am ready to con-
slder, in conjunction with the federal