The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
A CABINET CRISIS AT BERLIN.
RUMORS THAT THE CHANCELLOR
MAY RESIGN.

Ter over the Latter's Dictatorial
People with the Chancellor in His
Present Fight.
Berlin. April 2S.-The Boersen Zeitung
published on Friday. r.SmOrs OF a cabinet
crisis and the possible resignation OF
Chancellor Prince HOhenlOhe. The chan
cellor was said to object to the anti-so-
cialist bill in its present form and TO
threaten 10 retire in case IL should be
passed until amended. Last evening, the
Reichsanzeiger denied the truth of this
story.
The Boersen Zeitung published. however,
only what has been common report in po-
litical circles since last Wednesday, The
original difficulty in the cabinet is sup
posed to be the chancellor differences
with Herr Won Koeller regarding the con-
1ict between the Prussiln government
and tn. Berlin city council. IT," chancel-
lor has watched with growing disapproval
the high and mighty way in which Herr
Won Koeller has tried TO suppress the coun-
Gil petition against the anti-socialist bill
and Is understood to have opposed the
order forbidding the councillors TO lay the
petition before the Reichstag. AS Prus-
sian minister of the interior Herr Won
Koeller has managed the government side
in the conflict. So far, ne has succeeded
only In driving the council to an attitude
of open defiance and has got himself into
such a tight corner that Il will require
the united efforts of all the ministers to
extricate him. The chancellor's opposition
70 Herr Won Koeller's position commands
the sympathy of the great majority
throughout Germany. Herr Won Koeller's
imperious manner of dealing with the mu-
nicipal representatives has reused bad
feeling everywhere. and the heat of the
conflict is felt most keeniy in Berlin.
Herr Won Koellers order to the council
lors was received with Indignation. When
Dr. Langerhaus, president of the council,
replied that the order was too late-the
petition had already gone-the radicals
and socialists and most national liberals
declared that the open conflict had come
and that 1t could be settled only by the re-
treat of the government or the dissolution
of the council. Since DR.. Langerhaus' re
ply a similar stiffening of back has been
observed in many councils outside of
Brandenburg province. despite Herr Won
Koeuer's orders to all provincial presi-
dents to forbid the discussion of the anti
socialist bill at municipal meetings. Stet-
tin, like Berlin, is in open rebellion, its
magistracy having declared for the coun-
cils proposal to send a petition against the
bill to Berlin this week. The Stettin au-
thorities will not ask for the amendment
Of the bill, but for its defeat in toto. The
hostility of the voters to the bill and all
responsible for IL Is so widespread and
deep-seated that If the Reichstag should
be dissolved and the elections held next
81. fa1 IafT fe nf
opposition parties would win any number
on May 5 municipal delegates from all
parts of Germany Will meet here TO pro-
test against the proposal to curtan free
dom of speech and the rights of the pub
lie meeting and the press. This conven-
ton will be an imposing affair. Among
those who signed the call for IL are the
mayors of Berlin and Breslau, the pres
idents of the municipal councils in Frank
fort-on-the-Main Carlsruhe, Dantzic,
Munich. Kiel, Stuttgart, Posen and Halle.
Herr Won Koeller's newspaper organ, the
Berliner Corresponding, has announced
that the Prussian municipal councils CON
cerned have elected their delegates at in
formal meetings. Herr Won koelier's sec
ond move is uncertain, but the unanimous
opinion here is that the next ten days
will be fraught with such political ex-
citement as Berlin has seldom felt in re-
Some $50 sailors and marines went on
special train from kiel to WllhelmshaVen
Friday and yesterday embarked on the
ironciad Kaiser for China A rumor
abroad yesterday was that Emperor Will
lam had sent the czar a telegram putting
the German squadron in the Pacific under
the command of the Russian admiral Tyr
toff The rumor seems incredible. Such
course would cause an uproar throughout
the German army and navy. IL is signif-
cant of the general confusion mere tnat
rumors, equally startling, are Circulated
almost daily. The changes In Germany
foreign policy are so sudden and astonish-
ing that even the men supposed 70 belong
to the inner political circle ard OFTEN at a
loss for explanations. Ine change oI
front toward Japan is still unexplained.
The official and semi-ofiicial newspapers
are kept busy denying false reports. but
they fail to give any clew 10 the true pol
icy adopted by the government The viru-
lence of the canard fever was shown clear
ly yesterday when the government found
II expedient to deny the report that the
Greek ironclad taking part in the Fiel
fetes would be seized for the benefit of
Greece's German creditors.
II is announced officially that Germans
going abroad to live temporarily or per-
manently, without having done military
service need not expect hereafter TO get
marriage permits from the government.
The emperor and empress VIII so to
TasewaIk. near Stettin on June to at
tend the jubilee of the PaseWalk CUR
raster regiment and unveil the statue
erected in the town to Emperor Frederick
Herr Won Kiderlen- -Waechter was Sc
lected by the emperor to accompany him
on his present journey In South Ger
many. lie goes uOIillUllg " ANPAIHtiN
the foreign Office but really as one of the
ernperor's personal friends.
The emperor's astonishing changes OF
his political and personal plans recently
have earned for him the new nickname of
Wilhelm der Ploetzliche (Willam the
Sudden) His latest surprise for the army
Is that four, instead of two army corps
besides two cavalry divisions, shall take
part in the great maneuvers before En-
peror Francis Joseph in the Stettin dis
trict The change Is supposed TO be due
10 his wish to show the Austrian emperor
more troops than we're assembled before
the German sovereigns at Guens in 1888
The trustees Of the steamer Elbe relief
fund met Wednesday with DR.. Won BOet-
ticher in the chair. The treasurer re-
ported that 100000 marks had been col
iectef The trustees decided that the bulk
Of this sum should &c used to endow the
children under is years and the widows
left by the victims Of the disaster.
The Vorwaerts (social-democratic) de-
voted two columns Of editorial relative
10 the Standard Oil Company last
Wednesday. It denounced the company
a. "a monster that exploits the consHm-
ing classes" and as zone OF those rings
that hasten the social revolution more
effectively than any political party"
The Berlinger ZeltunR says that retail
dealers IN petroleum, acting IN harmony
with their customers, VIII boycott the
petroleum producers and handle hcfcaf-
ier rape seed OIL AZ a substitute for do
uieeiie purposes. The Hdndeis LeitunR
faf.