St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-31
A BISMARCK CRAZE
Events OF the Week Have Put
the German World Into
a Fever.
ACTION OF THE REIcHSTAG
And the Kaiser's Bitter Com.
ment Thereon Arouse the
Factions.
ACTION OF THE REICHsTAC
ATTACKS OF SOCIALISTS
On the eX-Chancellor and the
Kaiser Eold and Bitter
News of Berlin.

Copyright 1895 by the Associated Press.
BERLIN March 30.-The refusal
of the majority of the reichstag to
celebrate Prince Bismarck's birth
day, Emperor Williams bitter COM
ment thereon and the scenes which
occurred at Friedrichsruhe during
the past week have, altogether, put
the Germans in a feverish condition,
and opinion is being expressed much
more generally and outspol1enly than
customary.
The Conservative and National
Liberal press vigorously denounce
the reichstag's majority, one paper
in Leipsic going to the extent of say
ing ''They ought to be buried like so
much carbon So far as the spon-
taneous utterances of popular feel
ing are concerned, the vast majority
of German people certainly disap-
prove of the reichstag's decision.
A significant suggestion of it is
that throughout the week, whenever
the emperor appeared publicly, both
in Berlin and elsewhere, he was the
recipient of popular ovations. Thou
sands of people lined Inter den Lin
den Monday and cheered him vocif-
erously, and this has been repeated
every day since. On the other hand,
the Centrist Radical and Socialist
press has taken the emperor to task
in unequivocal language for his tele-
gram to Prince Bismarck and be-
cause Of sundry passages in his ad-
dress at Friedrichsruhe.
The Cologne Volkszeitung, the
chief organ of the Center party,
criticised the emperor sharply, say
ing that while it is the emperor's
right to change his mind or conduct
towards Prince Bismarck, it could
not be disputed that it was the right
of the reichstag majority, and the
Centrists especially, to adhere stead
fastly to their own opinions. 'It
could be disputed still less the pa
per proceeds, that the reichStag has
the right to demand to know whether
the politics of the empire are to be
again shaped by Prince Bismarck,
or whether the present chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe, is counted for
something"
Herr Richter's organ, the Freis-
SINCE Zeitung, compares the rela-
tonS between the emperor and
Prince Bismarck and those which
existed between them a couple Of
years ago, and asks whether the
reichstag has gone as far in refusing
to share in the present celebration
as the monarch did in 1892, when he
forbade all recognition of Prince Bis
marck, and the friends of the latter
were officially ostracized.
The Vossiche Zeitung speaks in
similar terms on the emperor's atti-
tude, and denies that he has the
right to thus insult the reichstag
in defiance of constitutional govern
ment." The passage in the emperor's
address to Prince Bismarck at
Fr1edr1chsruhe, when his majesty
presented the eX-chancellor with the
sword on behalf of the army. in
which he referred to the sword as an
unIalIlng instrument in the hands
OF princes, is likewise severely criti-
cised by certain section of the
press. Several Of the Radical organs
ask the emperor to study history for
proof of the fact that the sword in
the hands of a prince is in nowise
always an unfailing weapon. being
tWo-edged
The Socialistic press, notably the
VorWaertz, is more outspoken. and
calls upon the reichstag to rebuke
the monarch's utterances respecting
their vote, and claims that Herr Won
LeVetzoW and the Conservative min
ority were instigated from Friedrich
sruhe in provoking last Saturdays
stormy scene in the reichstag, and
that the Bismarck clique is aiming
to displace the present cabinet. The
Vorwaertz yesterday stated that
Baron Won Buol-Berenburg presi-
dent of the reichstag, in a letter in
which he refused to submit to the
house the Socialist motion regarding
Emperor Williams telegram to Bis
marck, declared that the motion had
nothing to do with the discussion of
estimates during which it was intro
duced. Moreover, the baron is said
to have added that the telegram was
not signed by the chancellor, and
therefore could not form the SUBJ
ject of a resolution in the reichstag.
The recent diplomatic changes are
interpreted as pointing to some dis
turbances of friendly relations be-
tween Germany and Russia. 1t ap-
pears that the new Russian ambas-
sador to Berlin, Count Osten-Sacken,
formerly Russian minister to Ba-
varia, was appointed without con-
sidering the desires of Emperor Will
lam, and the latter's reply was the
recall OF Gen. Won Werder, the Rus
sian ambassador at Berlin, and the
appointment in his place of Prince
Radolin, recently German ambas-
sador to Turkey, as German ambas-
sador to Russia. The Russian gov
ernment, according to good author
ity, is greatly concerned at the
agrarian agitation in Germany.
which is made directly against Rus
sia.
In the reichstag today the agra
rian proposals of Count Won Kunitz
were again brought up, and were
referred to a committee amid Con-
servative applause and against the
votes Of Centrists, Radicals and So
cialists, who urged their direct re-
lection. Herren Galen, Barth, Voll-