The record-union., 1896-05-24
It Came From Prussia, Though, and
Not From America.
The Death of Herr Otto Camphausen,
Prussian Minister of Finance From
1869 to 1873, Opens Controversy
Between BismarCk's Organ and the
Liberal Press, Which Will Doubt
less Lead to the Unearthing of a
Scandal i'm the ReiChstag.

BERLIN, May 23.-The food purity
scare which has been SO tenderly foS-
tered by the agrarian politicians has re-
ceived a senge tional flip this week by
the seizure of 400 pounds of food in
fected with tuberculosis at the Berlin
Trades Exhibition, in the institution
devoted to the sale of cheap food to the
public, where\thousandS of persons eat
dinners daily that cost a penny a head.
The infected meat came from Meek
lenburg, and not from America, which
country the German officials profess to
regard as the place of origin of all of
the diseased meats in the world. In
spite of the dictum of Baron Hammer
stein-Loften, the Prussian Minister OF
Agriculture, who says it is Impossible to
put a Chinese wall around Prussia to
prevent the importation of foreign ami
mails, the provincial Governors have one
after another closed their boundaries
against the adjoining provinces which
are infected with foot and mouth dis
ease and ailments of that kind, and now
the frontier of Prussian Silesia has been
closed against Russian hogs.
The "Reichsanzeiger," the official
organ, publishes a notice issued by the
Governor of Dusseldorf, in Prussia,
closing the markets of the province
against sixty districts throughout the
Empire, among which are Hamburg,
Konigsburg, Breslau, Madgeburg, Lue-
nenburg, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Aschen,
Dresden. Leipsig, Carlsruhe and Mann
helm, besides provinces like Mecklen-
ornn icly of IN
fact, there never before has been such a
sweeping charge of infection printed in
Germany.
The Kaiser has been hunting for a
week past in the woods of Prokelwitz,
spending his days in the chase and visit
ing the noblemen of the vicinity in their
castles in the evenings.
1t is stated that the Emperors
brother-in- law, Duke Ernest Gunter
who recently opened his new chateau at
Prinkenau, has introduced the latest
French culinary novelty, black yolks of
duck eggs, to the Kaiser. The story goes
that these yolks are obtained by feeding
ducks with acorns, the tannin contained
in which working upon the iron proper
ties of the yolk makes the yolk black.
During the EmperOr's visit to Prokel-
witz a large barn few miles away
caught fire. The Kaiser, upon learning
of the fire. drove Immediately to the
scene and personally directed the ex-
tinguishing of the flames, and the sal
wage of property, and did not leave until
the fire was subdued.
Prince Henry of Prussia was in his
most affable mood upon the occasion of
his recent interview with Hon Edwin F.
Uhl, the new United States Embassador
He told Mr. Uhl that he had several
times been in South and Central Amer
lea, and regretted exceedingly that he
had never been in the United States
which country he had always had the
greatest desire to see. He had read a
great deal about the United States. he
said, and in his conversation he showed
himself remarkably we'll informed upon
facts and conditions concerning the
North American Republic.
The death of Herr Otto Camphausen
who was the Prussian Minister of FL
nance during the period from 1869 to
1873, has opened controversy between
Prince Bismarck's organ, the Ham
| burger Nachrichten," and the Liberal
press. Prince Bismarck, in answering
the attacks made upon him by the Lib
eral newspapers, says that Herr Camp
hausen resigned his Office owing to the
parliamentary pressure and opposition
and declares that a Minister resigning
his position under such circumstances
had no right afterward to crfticise his
colleagues who remained on the battle
field. 1t was Prince Bismarck's ad-
herence to this idea the "Nachrichten"
says, that provoked his severe turn
with Herr Camphausen in the Prussian
Parliament. Nevertheless, the over
Whelming consensus of opinion is TO-
day that Herr Camphausen was the best
Finance Minister that Prussia ever had.
In consequence of the Emperors con-
demnation of the party of Christian
socialists, DR.. Burckhardt of Bremen
has taken up the cudgels in it's defense
Ir an address delivered before a gather
ing of Christian socialists at Bremen
DR.. Burckhardt declared that the Gov
eminent, when the "Voerwartz. the
leading socialist organ, favored the
subsidizing of the Christian socialists
by the provincial Governors, placed
fundS at their disposal. The matter
eXcites general attention, and DR.
Burckhardt's declaration will doubtless
lead to the unearthing of a scandal in
the Reichstag
The "Deutsche Tagzeitung" learns
that IN consequence of the demands of
the shop assistants that shops shall
| close at s o'clock each evening. the
Bundesrath is considering the question
of regulating the number of consecutive
hours that shops may be kept open.
leaving it to the shop-keeper to fix the
hours OF opening and closing
The Berlin press are unanimous in
their approval of the attitude taken bv
Baron Won Thielmann, German En-
bassador, to the United States. in his
controversy with United States Secre-
tary of State Olney, over the case of
Louis Stern of New York, whose bail
of S0,000 marks was forfeited at Munich
because of his failure to surrender him
self to serve the sentence of imprison-
ment and fine imposed upon him by the
court for insulting Baron Won Thoren-
gen, Deputy Commissioner of the Spa.
at kissengen, last year
Bob Kneebs, the American horseman.
who is in jail here pending the decision