Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-10-03
THE BERLIN BUDGET
POLITICAL NEWS FROM GER
MANY'S CAPITAL.
EMPERoR'5 BODY GUARD
Two Soldiers Accompany Him All the
Time SO That No one May Injure
Him American Exports to Ger
many Are ON the Increase New
Chancellor Probable.

Berlin, Sept 20. Chancellor Won
lIohenlohe abandoned his attempt to
secure majority of the reichstag
through the aid of the centrist votes.
The eentist party furnished ample
proof lasr winter OF being irreconcil.
able and undesirable and Prinve
Bismarck's advice on this point Is
said to have changed the opinion shat
Prince Won HohT.lohe formerly held.
Negotiations are now o. foot between
factions of the conservative party and
national liberals and moderatea TO se
cure concerted action throughout tle
next session of the reichstag on the
most vita, OF government measures
This movement, which is almost cor
tain TO succeed, will give tho govern
ment a more stable majority than ever
Won Capriyi had. Among the prln.
cipal government measures that will
be introduced ut the coming session
of the relchstag are: For the reform
Of the hourse; for protection al me.
chanical trade against dishonest com.
petition; for relief Of agriculture and
for federation o. huSbandry. The
government does not intend to intro,
duee any new taxation bills at the ap.
preaching session.
Among those who have been ar
rested in connection with the dis.
corery that the secrets of the national
defense are being Investigated for the
French Is former Bayarlan army
officer, Ludwig Pfelffer In whose
rooms in Berlin were found models
and rawlings of German defense
works and letters from the French
military bureau. Altogether fifteen
arrests have been made. Drawings
ana models seized are for the most
part descriptive OF the Notifications
but three letters are reported to have
contained Instructions from the war
department ut Paris itself
Two companion soldiers accom-.
panied Emperor William to Romlnton
when he went thither on his shooting
expedition. These soldiers serve as an
imperial body guard denying every
body access or near approach 10 the
emperor This innovation Is due 70
ahe fact tlat ut both Pottsiam and
Stettin the emperor received many
deatening letters, apparently emanat
from socialists and anarchists and he
was approached on several occasions
ny suspicious appearing persons. lie
Is having usual sporting luck ut Rom
mton. He killet~twenty-three stays
with his own hand Thursday.
Il. Knielle, representing X. q. Dun
x Co. has just completed tour
through Germany. He reports that
exports from the United States into
Germany are constantly increasing
and especially in the lines Of furniture
and fruits. About three hundred com
mercial travellers from the United
States are now In this empire trying !
TO open -up fresh channels of trade
for American made goods and making
a reasonable measure OF success
William and Prince Won Hohenlohe
are so strained that 1t would not be
If there be new incllm-
bent IN the chancellorship before the
expiration Of the year from the date
on which the prince was appointed,
which was October 20, 1891 The Wis |
1t Of Won lIohenlohe to st. Petersburg
early this month proved an unfortun-
ale one for him officially, however, IL
may have resulted pecuniarily II
was alleged at the time that the chan |
cellor's erarnd. while primarily Of an
official nature, had also personal
side, Won Hohenlohe desiring 10 OBJ |
tain permission from the ear that his !
wife might hold the estates in RuR
sla Of her deceased brother, Prince
Sayen-W ittegensipin, which were
said TO be worth fifty million marks.
The advances which the German inn
perial chancellor made on this occa-
sion to the Russian were no more fa-
yorably received than we're the 9TH
ers The fact that under such crcum-
stances Won Hohenlohe should have
asked personal favor OF the ear
has. according to current report. gen
~ angered the emperor.