The record-union., 1896-10-19
Germans Hope He Will be Russian
Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
1t is Not Thought That the Cars
Visit Has Changed the Relations of
the POWerS-Internal Differences
of the Socialist Party Begin to De-
velOp Under the Rule of the Die
tatOrs-RumOrs of a New Russian
LOan-An American Female ViO-
liniSt Creates Enthusiasm.

BERLIN, Oct. IS Copyright, 1896.
Dy the United-ASSociated Presses). A
great deal of Importance is being at
tached to the repeated conferences
which have taken place between NJ
Shlshkin, Privy Councillor to the Rus
sian Foreign Office and Acting Minis
ter OF Foreign Affairs, pending the
appointment of a successor to the late
Prince Lobanoff- -Rostovsky, and NJ De
Witte, Russian Minister of Finance, on
the one hand, and Prince Hohenlohe,
German Imperial Chancellor, and Baron
Won Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, on the other, but the balance of
opinion appears to be on the side that
the conferences have concerned the
commercial relations between Germany
and Russia rather than any matters of
a political character
1t is probable however, that the EN-
peror and NJ Shishkin, who has been in
Berlin during the last week, had a talk
Of political nature over the visit of the
Car to Queen Victoria Prince Ho-
henlohe invited NJ. Shishkin to lunch
con on Wednesday and the luncheon
came off at the Chancellorie according
to programme. The guests included
Count Won Ostend- Sackin, the Russian
Embasador; Baron Marschall Won Bic
berstein the Foreign Minister, and sew
eral of the high officials of the Foreign
Office and attaches Of the Russian EN-
bassy, but NJ. Shishkin did not make his
appearance, and it transpired the next
day that the Emperor M. Shishkin and
Nj. Palm, the Russian Secretary Of
State. at the time that the Acting Rus
sian Minister of Foreign Affairs was eX-
pected at the Chancellorie were taking
luncheon together at Potsdam.
Press surmises are rife over the meet
ing, but none Of the papers are able to
say what tranSpired at the conference
from which the Emperor deemed it ad-
visable to exclude all German officials.
After leaving the palace at Potsdam NJ
Shishkin proceeded directly to the
Chancellorie, later conversed with
Baron Won Bieberstein at the Foreign
Office for a few minutes and then
started for St. Petersburg. Whatever
truth there may be in the report that
General Count Vorontshkoff-Dasc
will be made the successor of Prince
Lobanoff Rostovsky as Russian Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs instead of M.
Shishkin, the fact remains that the lat
ter will be persona grata here.
The German officials with whom he
has come in contact declare him to be a
keen, yet broad man, diplomat and
hard worker, but man without preju-
dices and a decided opportunist in his
views. His most formidable competitor
General Count -Daschkoff
has the overwhelming advantage of be-
longing to the haute nobilite, while the
link which connects NJ Shishkin with
+l..~ ri ID ,e-f .f
that he married the Princess Hochons
kCw. Count Vorontshkoff- -Daschkoff is
ro-French but M. Shishkin, upon the
subject of Russias relations with
France, is not committed to any abso
lutte policy, hence the latter is preferred
in high German official circles.
Out Of the multitude of conflicting ru
mors in regard to the Cars tour of
Europe, nothing can be CLEANED that has
the stamp Of reliability. Vienna and
Paris are the focuses of sensational
stories, but the sum of the official view
here is that the relations of the Powers
have not been in any respect changed,
and that the Car will not move from
the position Russia has hitherto held. if
his action should risk disturbing the
European equilibrium.
The internal differences Of the Social
ist party began to develop under the
rule of the dictatOrs Bebel and Lieb-
knecht which rule was vigorously dis
puted in the congress near Gotha last
week. Herr Liebknecht. complained of
the interference of the ruder parlia-
mentarians in the management of the
rarty, and said that as soon as the
academically trained BourgeOfSsie
adopted socialism and began to give
valuable intellectual or material assist
ance to the party they were Immediate
ly dubbed down by others who had
risen from the ranks of the proletariat.
In resenting this sort of dictation to
the leaders on the part of the pro-
letarian members of the party, Herr
Liebknecht completely overlooked his
old song over the "dictation of the
proletarians," which he once regarded
as a party plank, at least to the extent
Of obtaining recruits to the ranks Of
the party, and his attention was called
to his evident change of views. The
next notable feature of the congress
was the contest of the South German
Socialists with the Central bosses in
Perlin. Herr Vollmar, the South Ger
man leader, is still too i'll to take active
part in the affairs of the party, but he
sent potent representatives to the con-
gresS in Herr Grillenberger and others
to defend the agrarian propa ganda,
which is now a burning question in
Southern Germany.
In the course Of the debates Herr
L.jebknecht found occasion to deprecate
the differences which had arisen within
the party in regard to the value Of
modern art and literature as compared
with the works to which the pro-
letariats are accustomed to give their
approval. A majority of the delegates
became indignant over naturalism in
art as portrayed in the .Neue Zeit," the
literary review of the Socialist party.
Eerr Steiger, the editor of the "Neue
Zeit," made strong speech in defense
of naturalism as contributing to the
elevation OF the IDEAS of the proletariat
An uproar ensued, in which the Bour-
geissie were hooted down. and some of
the delegates made illusions to nat
uralism, and used other worse express
s.cns. a few Of them unfit for publica-