The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26
Several Mentioned as Probable
Successors of Chancellor
Won HohenIohe.
SILVER HAS ITS ADVOCATES.
Powers Will Be Invited to Send
Representatives to the None
tary Conference.

In an unexpected parting attack on the
government just previous to the ADJOURN
ment, Count Won Kanitz reproached the
Ministers with this fact.
He declared that the members of the
Reichstag might as well leave Berlin
empty-handed as to return to their constit-
uencies with miserable legislation touch
ing upon sugar and Spices" Such results,
he added, could only increase the discon-
tent in the country.
The Government, he insisted, had done
nothing in spite of all the promises made
by the Ministers to relieve agricultural
distress, and he demanded that the Gov
eminent either draft new bill by the
autumn or accept his motion to raise the
price of cereals.
Baron Won Manteuffel said that the
whole Conservative party subscribed to
the opinions on this subject of Count Won
kanltz. DR.. Won Boetticher, Imperial Sec
rotary of State for the Interior, said, in
reply, that he regretted so little had been
done during the session, but he added that
the Government had not felt encouraged
to prolong it in the face of such empty
benches as had recently been seen in the
House.
One OF the chief features of the session,
which has not been without startling Incl
dents, has been the rapid growth of the
blmetallic agitation. The bimetallic party
has been even more successful in the Prus-
sian Diet than in the Reichstag, in
asmuch as the resolution of the Diet,
instead of merely asking the Government
to call conference, as the Reichstag did,
instructed the Chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe, much against his liking, to persuade
the Bundesrath to so frame invitations to
the monetary conference as to make it
plain from the start that Germany wishes
to bring about the general adoption of
double standard.
DR.. MIGUEL, the Prussian Minister of
Finance, however, in his speeches on the
subject in the Diet, while doing his utmost
toward Cancellation of the conservatives, is
careful to bind the Government as little as
possible to any definite policy. Prac-
tically, however, there is no doubt that the
Bundesrath will empower the Govern
ment to invite the powers to send repre-
.sentatives to monetary conference. +
Finding no support for the bill advo-
Gated by Count Won Kanitz, looking to a
state monopoly of the sale of grain, they
remedies which they claim the Govern
ment owes them, and they will be satisfied
with nothing less.
1t is interesting to note that Prince Bis
marck, in his recent table talk with the
Saxon deputation, declared himself to be
bimetallist, saying to Mayor Beck of Fret
borg that he was obliged when in Office to
yield his own convictions to the opinions
of currency experts.
Rumor still busies itself with the proba-
bilities of ministerial crisis, and that
Count Won Gutenberg, Count Won Valdez
see and Count Won Radowski, the German
ambassador at Madrid, are canvassed as
possible successors to Prince Hohenlohe.
Emperor William, after indulging in
Devastating to his hearts content, is back
in Berlin looking remarkably we'll. While
guest at Wierohkowitz the Emperor was
present at an exhibition given by Herr
Fielder, an inventor of Berlin, on new
fluid. The exhibition took place on
the lake near the castle. The in
ventor poured some of the LIQUID
on the waters of the lake, and
directly in coming in contact with them
it burned upward, giving high flame on
the surface. A strange feature of the ex-
hibition was in the fact that the flames
could be pushed aside at will by the
boatmen on the lake. The Emperor was
highly interested in the spectacle, and ex-
pressed the opinion that the invention can
be made use of in case of war.
Emperor William has painted a fine pic
ture, representing Pagel of Nibelungen
fame, and has presented it to the new Ger
man ironclad Hagen, where it adorns the
mesSroom.
dren will pass part of the hot summer sea-
son at Wyk-on-Fohr Island, in the North
Sea, where four villas have been rented for
the use of her Majesty and her suite
The measures to be taken in order to
counterfeit the effects of the American
petroleum combine are still under consid-
Grafton by the Government. For one thing
it is proposed to differ between raw and
refined petroleum in the levying of duty so
as to permit the establishment of oil re-
fneries in Germany. It has also been de-
cided to allow the bringing into the gen.
eral market of mixtures of Rus sian and
American petroleum.
Steps for the complete reconciliation of
Count Won Kotze and his traducers are
still pending. In accordance with the
wishes of the Emperor, Duke Gunther of
Schleswig-Holstein and Count Won Hone
nau had to call on Count Won Kotze this
week and express their sympathies with
him.
And so the great court scandal arising
from the series of anonymous communica-
lions sent for years past to various
high persOnageS is gradually smoothed
over. The chief of the general staff, Count
Won Schlieffen, is now attending to this
matter, and the court proceedings which
would have been personally distasteful to
the Emperor have been entirely suspended.
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