The San Francisco call., 1895-12-23

In the AlmanaCh de GOtha, and VINO look
down upon everybody outside Of their set.
Those of the public official circle stand
apart from the court aristocrats, the varl-
GUS cliques meeting only at great assem-
blles where the general world goes. Then
again the members of the Haute Finance
form society by themselves, and SO on
down. All of these circles will be in the
full swing of gayety three weeks hence,
making Berlin brighter and adding to the
prosperity of the tradesmen, and no COM
plcations III the East or the West menace
blight upon good season.
According to accepted reports, the much
talked-of letters that were in the posses
sion of Baron Won Hammerstein, the abb
sconding ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung,
came into the possession of the Socialist
leaders in the Reichstag through the
Baron's mistress, Flora Gaes.
Fraulein Gaes was left in INDECENT Cir
cumstances and was obliged to leave her
hotel because of inability to pay her bills,
the chambermaids in the hotel holding
her trunks as security for small loans
which she had contracted. The Freisin-
nige Deputies in the Reichstag bought
some of the letters from her, but the So
cialists are in possession of seventy OF
them signed by well-known Conservatives,
Deputies and officials. Most of these let
ters are addressed to Hammerstein, but
some of them are addressed to Flora her
self. 1t is revelations not of political
scheming alone that these Conservatives
dread, but the letters show various exam
Piles of moral turpitude on their part that
they would go great lengths to conceal.
Baron Won Stumm-Halberg, who is him.
self clear of all suspicion. proposes to assist
his embarrassed associates in the Reich
stag by moving resolution restraining
members from making any oral disclosures
in debates, and also prohibiting, under
severe penalties, the publication OF any OF
the contents of the letters. Baron Won
Stumm also seems very serious in his re-
solve to raise the question of the exclusion
of the socialists from the Reichstag on the
ground that they have viola ted the consti-
tuition in receiving payment from party
funds. While Prince Bismarck was Chan
cellor a similar effort was made to repress
the socialists, but it was a failure.
The fizzle which Rector Ablwardt has
made in his anti-Semetic campaign in the
United States has still further discredited
him among anti-Semites here. A meeting
of the Democratic Anti-Semite Union,
which was held yesterday, resented the
suggestion that jim Ahlwardt's tour OF
America he was acting in any way in
representative capacity, and IL was ex-
plicitly declared that his trip was under
taken wholly without the knowledge of
the union.
The Emperor has invited all of the mem
bers of the Reichstag who sat in the first
session after the creation of that body in
1871 to be present at the castle on July 18,
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the procla-
nation of the German empire.
1t has been ascertained that of the orig
inal body only thirty-tive are now alive,
and that out of the thirty who formed the
memorable deputatioD to Versailles upon
the occasion of the proclamation of Will
liam | as Emperor of Germany the only
ones living are the Duke OF Ujest the
Prince of Pless, Herren Won Drest. Won
Romberg and Won Salze and Count HON.
peach The Bundesrath has four members
who were in the first session of the Reich
stag, and to these a special fete will be
given on January Is.
The results of the completed census of
Germany shows the population of the en-
pire to be 81. 75S 1864, an increase of 9. .329 1894
over the census OF 1890. Ali of the States
of the empire show increases.
The Vossische Zeitung in an article re-
ferring to the financial panic in New York
says: ''The outcome is likely to prove to
be President Cleveland's Sedan. The
economic position of America is bad
enough now, but what will happen in the
event of WARP"
The North German Gazette expresses
fear that it will take at least a decade for
America to recover the confidence of the
politicians and financiers of Germany.
The Emperor is suffering from a cold,
but his condition is not serious.
The ex-Empress Frederick to-day pre-
sented Christmas gifts to the girls of the
| Victoria institute and also to pupils in the
Pestalozzi and Froebel institute.
A report is in circulation that Count
Herbert Bismarck is about to obtain an
office in the Prussian Ministry, but the
rumor is not generally believed in official
circles