The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15
Oscar Insists That His Yearly
Allowance Be Greatly In
creased.
AFFAIRS IN THE FATHERLAND.
A Monetary Conference to Be Called,
Even Though Hohenlohe Does
Not Act.

advices from the Emperor at Stockholm
are to the effect that he will leave there to-
morrow for the northern part of Sweden,
but it is his intention to meet King Oscar
again on his return.
The relations of the King with the major
ity in the Storthing are again menacing.
In the early part of this week the Stor-
thing will be called upon to vote the annual
allowances for the King and Crown Prince.
Two years ago the majority showed their
hostility to the King by reducing his
Majesty's annual allowance from 366, 600 to
256,000 kroner, and the allowance of the
Crown Prince from 10000 to $4,000 kroner
The King, through his Ministers, now de-
mands the old grant of 100000, and con-
tends that it was in violation of the provls-
ions of the constitution to reduce the royal
grant during the lifetime of the reigning
monarch. There is very little likelihood
that the Norwegian Radicals will admit
the validity of the Kings constitutional ar
gument unless his Majesty assents to their
view of the constitution in regard to the
diplomatic and consular representation of
Norway.
Premier Stang has again gone to the
net, and the state of affairs is such that the
King, before he sees the German En-
peror, is likely to go to Christiania and
make another attempt to construct coali-
ton Ministry. The Emperor, upon leav-
ing Stockholm, will probably sail on board
the Hohenzollern to Gehe, where he will
land and proceed to Hernosand, and
thence to Wisby and Borgholm.
Whatever serious business engagements
the Emperor and King Oscar may have
had, they have not initiated against the
Kaiser's open and hearty enjoyment of
this town. A representative of the United
Press, with only one other journalist as
well, has been privileged to accompany
the EN- peror on his trips from Stockholm
to the various places he has visited, and
was thus enabled to observe the Kaiser
frolcking on board his yacht, seemingly
oblivious to every care and enjoying each
moment with the zesr of youth, at the
same time making the occasion pleasant
for everybody about him.
The officers of the Hohenzollern say that
after visiting Borgholm the Emperor in
tends to return to German waters. The
Empress had arranged to go to Sassnitz,
on the Island of Rugen, on July 20 with
the four younger Princes and the little
Princess, but she changed her plans and
left Potsdam for Sassnitz on Wednesday,
The Emperor will without doubt visit the
Empress at Sassnitz before going to Cowes
to witness the regatta. The influx of Ger
man tourists into Rugen is so great that
the degree OF quiet, which the Empress
especially desires, is likely to be broken
into by the swarm OF visitors around Sass
nitz, Binz and Stubbenkammer. all of
which places are easy of access from Stet-
tin and Swinemunde.
The Schloss at Daziden, which the Kaiser
has leased, has been SO inclosed that the
Empress can drive for miles on the grounds
without being seen by the public. The
Schloss stands upon a cliff overlooking the
sea, three miles from Sassnitz. The rooms
are large and pleasant. A flight of marble
steps leads up to the great hall, which is
supported by marble pillars adorned with
frescoes. There is a private means of ac.
cess from the cliffs to the sea and extern
sive woods of beeches and fir enhance the
seclusion of the place. The lease of the
Schloss was secured by the Kaiser in 1894,
upon hearing how the Empress was an
noyed on the occasion of her last visit to
Rugen by mob of curious visitors.
After witnessing the Cowes regatta the
Emperor will spend a week in grouse
shooting in Scotland, and will return TO
Berlin in time to lay the foundation
of the national monument to his grand
father, Emperor William 1, on August IS,
the anniversary of the battle of Gravelotte.
The occasion will be one of great ceremony
All of the heads of the German Federal
Governments and the leading dignitaries of
the empire will be present, and it is ex-
pected that the Emperor will deliver an
Grafton glorifying the results of the war of
1870.
The celebration of the twenty-fifth Sedan
day, on September l. will be general in
Germany. This will be followed by the
ceremony of the Emperor's unveiling the
statue of his father, Emperor Frederick, at
Woerth, both of which events will be occa-
sions when the Germans, one and ALL will
ignore the popular delusion about the
growth of French good feeling toward Ger
many. The Socialist organizations have
adopted concurrent resolutions declaring
that they will take no part in the celebra-
ton, but there are no tears shed over this
action.
Two representatives of the French Bi-
metallic League, Deputy Fourgieril, vice
chairman of the league, and M. Thery, the
secretary of that organization, spent sew
eral days in Berlin this week, and have
had number of conferences with Herren
Kardorff and Mirbach and DIR. Arendt.
The mission of the French gentlemen was
to prepare the way for an international
monetary conference, and the result of
their discussion points to the convening of
an international conference within short
time Herren Kardorff and Mirbach ex-
press confidence that Chancellor Hohen-
Iohe will fulfill his promise to call such
conference before the Reichstag again
Assem- bles, but the Government officials
outside of the bimetallic circles do not be-
lieve that Prince Hohenlohe will be so
ready to act when the time comes as his
promise indicated. The chief difficulty
will be to find basis for conference
which will be acceptable to the German
Federal States, nor will the difficulty be
surmounted when such a basis is obtained,
as many of the considerations which would
have to be put forth to meet the wishes OF
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