Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-01
REIcHSTAG REMAINS
But Holding Emperor in Check During Bis.
marck Outburst is Difficult.

! Berlin, March 31.-A responsible news
paper ventures few remarks on the re-
port that the Emperor went to far week
ago as to sign decree dissolving the
Reichstag The Frankfurter Zeitung
said, Thursday, the Emperor decided
fully after the anti Bismarck vote to or
der new election, but was unable to get
| the necessary support from the federal
| council Not only the ENJOYS of other
governments, but majority of the Prus-
sian ministers We're opposed to dissolution,
and the German press was equally reticent.
There have been numerous denials that
he spoke directly of dissolution and sum-
moning Count Waluersee to the chancel-
Tory. They all come from the same source
as familiar corrections of the Emperor's
indiscret speeches. The report of the
Emperors indiscrete remarks at Bis
marck' table was tclegraphed from Fried
richsruhe to leading Berlin journals, a
few hours after he uttered them. 1t was
held back to await official confirmation,
which, of course, never came. Nobody in
the political current has the slightest
doubt that had not high officials and
federal ENJOYS joined in squelching the
Emperor's fiery resolves and utterances,
the country would now be in the heat of
an election campaign and cabinet crisis.
Tuesday, the Berlin correspondent of the
Independence Beige said: 1.-The Emperor
and Bismarck conversed at length ON dis
solution. The Emperor wished to send
the deputies home at once but Bavaria
and Wurtemburg opposed such abrupt
style of dealing with the Reichstag.
Nevertheless, the Emperor counted the
days of the present house..
Correspondents in Friedrichsruhe,
Tuesday, agree that everything pointed to
Waldersee as the coming man. Next to
Bismarck and the Emperor, he is most
frequently mentioned and most generally
courted. He held an improvised circle
just outside the castle gate and chatted
freely concerning the events of the day
and touched without restraint upon the
chief features of the political situation.
The majority of ministers certainly find
no pleasure in the present prospect. The
triumph of the Bismarck element would
mean such ministerial upset as has not
been seen for years.
A fter the federal governments placed
a check on the Emperors resolve to send
home the deputies at once, Freiherr, Won
Marchall secretary of the foreign office,
made tour of the Reichstag Hobbies, as
surfing everybody that the idea of dissolu
ton was never entertained. DIR. Won
Boettisher volunteered the statement that
the houee would continue business, secure
in existence. for some time to come, If
not to the natural end
Both ministers are eager to deny that
anything like a crisis is threatened.
Herr Won koeller MINISTER of the interior
and Chancellor Prince Hohenlohe pre-
served absolute silence. The Emperor
temper was not improved by the announce
ment that the Radical deputy Schmidt,
new vice president of the Reichstag, re-
fused absolutely to appear before the En-
pcIor or attend the Bismarck dinner to-
morrow. The only discordant note in the
Bismarck jubilee comes from Catholic
editors, who seem to have gone back 90
years to live over again the bitter days of
kulturkampf. Their newspapers try to
minimize the popular character of the
fetes by insinuating that the celebration
is merely an agrarian hullabaloo raised
for POLITICAL purposes, and several Clerical
newspapers assert that big land owners,
have used pressure to obtain subscrip
ton for birthday presents. The Bismarck
agitation has become SO extensive, accord
ing to Ultramontane editors, that heavy
drafts must be made on the secret funds
in Berlin to keep it up. Then comes sug
gestions as to "ulterior objects, ''"govern
ment intrigues, oppressive imperial
measures" Talk of this sort is hardly
noticed in the present flood time of ma
tional hero worship, but is likely to be
utilized later in parliamentary feuds
That the whole Bismarck demonstration
is spontaneous Is beyond shadow of
doubt. Since the surrender at Sedan the !
country has not been in such a delirium
of joy.
The Empress Frederick sent long au-
tograph letter to Bismarck. The leetter
is calculated to heal the wounds left by |
the feud between the Empress and
chancellor during Emperor Frederick |
short reign.