Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-20
BEDFELLOWS IN POLITICS
Arc France and Germany But Their Tie Is a
 Rope of Sand.
ONLY GLORY WILL CRAFTY THE GAuL.
Deer Stalking Is Emperor Williams Latest Fad, and He Makes His Followers - Sweat-Matt Dwyer Is Import
 ing American Trotters.

Berlin, May 19.-The sugar bill, over which the reichstag wrangled for two days, although slightly favoring the agrarians, had not any party inspiration, and the government was therefore justi- fled in it's expectation that the measure would pass without any trouble. The bill simply aimed to relieve the present great depression in the sugar trade by maintaining high export bounties until some international agreement could be obtained with Austria and France regu- lating the export premiums or abolishing them altogether. Among other consid- erations pointing toward an internation- al agreement, the government was of the opinion that it would lead to the estab- lishment of an entente with the govern ment at Washington and prevent differ ential treatment of German sugar. Nei-' ther the freisinnige party nor the social ists had any genuine reason for opposing the bill yet party rancor melted them to the tactics designed to block the progress of the measure.
 Herr Von Koellerdorff, the free conser- VatiVe leader, caused q count out on Tuesday while the freisinnige motion in regard to secrecy at elections was being debated, and the consequence was that when the sugar bill was under discussion Thursday, Herr Singer, on behalf of the socialists, caught the government nap ping and retaliated with a vengeance. Discovering that there were only 169 members present. while it was necessary that 179 should be in the chamber in or der to constitute quorum, Herr Singer took advantage of the situation and caused the sitting to come to a close. The same tactics were repeated on Fri day, with the same degree of success. Count Posadowitzky, the imperial min ister of the treasury, appealed to the members of the left not to demand count, but his appeal was unavailing, and the debate was adjourned until Mon day, May 20. when. if there is no quorum present, the bill will be dropped and the session closed.
 The nomination of Count Goluchowski as imperial prime minister of Austria. to succeed Count Kalnoky, was both sur prise and shock in official circles in Berlin. Count GoluchowsM is a Pole who has definite and well known national SympathieS. He is the son of a man who, while holding the office of governor of Austrian Galicia, did not make any effort to conceal his strong antipathy to- ward Germany. He has strong clerical convictions and was for some time close ly associated with the French imperial ists. From German official point of view his appointment seems to be the very worst selection that Emperor Fran 
 ly possesses no diplomatic repute what ever ability in that field he may have, although he has had some diplomatic eX- perience in limited capacities. His first appointment was in 1872, when he was made an attache of the Austrian em- bassy here. From this post he was transferred to Paris, where he served as counsellor of the Austrian embassy a [ the French capital. Count Goluchowski married daughter of Prince Joachim Tt1ro nd hdH wealthy. From Paris he was trans ferred to the Austrian legation at Bucharest This change was made for the reason that Count Goluchowski had been black-balled by the Paris Jockey c1ub upon the ground that his promo tion to the ranks of the nobility was of too recent date. Not very much later he was recalled from Bucharest and sent into retirement because the government at Buda Pest had made charges against him as having shown a woeful want of energy in dealing with the Roumanian irredentats. Diplomats here interpret the mystery of the appointment of such a man as the successor of Count Kalnoky as due to the desire of Count Kalnoky to keep his ablest rival. Count DeKallay. out of the post. It was upon the advice of Count Kalnoky that Count Goluchow- ski was made prime minister, and 1t is regarded as perfectly plain in diplomatic circles here that Kalnoky made the recommendation because he relied upon Goluchowski's blunder to bring about his (Kalnokys) recall to the post. As Goluchowslki is an unknown quantity in the exalted position he holds, however there is possibility. and not a very remote one either, that Kalnoky may have overreached himself.
 The Hamburger Nachrichten,- in the early part of last week, originated a re- port that the entente entered Into by France and Germany and Russia in re- gard to the China-Japanese treaty of peace extended so far as to embrace the Anglo-E Egyptian question, this. of course, at the behest of France The majority of the press of Germany, however highly approve the idea that closer relations with France can be obtained through common action against Great Britains territorial greed; but the Hamburger Nachrichten, which Is tacitly regarded as expressing the views of Prince Bis marck upon all political subjects of inn portance and all matters of international concern, recurring to the subject, warns Germans against taking a too optimistic view of the results to be obtained from concerted action with France. France" the Nachrichten says. "is en- durable, but a reconciliation with France is impossible. Not even the restitution of Reichsland and the return of the mil lizards of Frances indemnity which France paid would be sufficient to sat