Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-07
TO DOUBLE HER NAVY
Williams Plans Find Increased
Approval.
HAS PROMISE OF LARGE SUMS
II the Reichstag Refuses the Money an
Appeal to the Nation Will
Follow.

Berlin, FEB. IA high official of the
colonial office informed the correspond
ent of the Associated Press that EN-
peror William Is firmly determined to
carry out the project of doubling the
size of the German navy. The official
alluded TO has had repeated converse
tons with Emperor William on this
subject during the past three weeks,
and he asserts that during the coming
summer the plan for the rorganza ton
of the navy will be drawn up. The
present program for slowly charging
the navy must remain in force for the
next six years, but in the meantime the
new plan Will be adopted, the prelim-
mary steps will be taken and the means
to execute it will be ascertained. His
majesty s. convinced that this is abso-
lutely necessary in order to secure the
German empire the power to protect her
position as great power and especial
ly as rising colonial power Hence all
| the emperor's energies will be bent to
| that conclusion. Some thing, however
must be done Immediately, and if the
| present reichstag refuses to grant large
| sums for the building and equipment
| of fleet of fast cruisers, the nation
will be appealed to and an attempt will
| be made to raise money for this pur-
| pose by popular subscription.
| Already a score of German Lobles,
| especially merchants, have declared
| their readiness to subscribe 5000. COO
| marks to form the nucleus of a fund.
| Among them are John Albrecht of
| Mecklenburg, the duke of SAKE Meinin-
gen, Prince Frederick Leopold of Prus-
| STA, Barons Bleichroder, Stumm and
Krupp, and a number of Hamburg and
| Bremen exporters.
1t is further stated that Prince Bis
marck had expressed to the emperor
| his belief in the necessity of creating a
| strong German navy. The fact that
| Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chan
| cellor, and some of the other members
| of the cabinet do not acquiesce in these
views, it is asserted, has caused his
majesty to seriously consider the advis-
ability of making changes in the minis
try The emperor's intention, however
is not to hasten this change, but to wait
| a favorable opportunity. Prince Ho-
henlohe's successor, it is thought in
court circles, will be Count Philip Won
Gutenberg. the German ambassador at
| Vienna, who, with his brother, is
great favorite of his majesty.
1t is significant that the Hamburger
| Nachricten, Prince Bismarck's organ,
in an article published on the emperors
| birthday denounced the cabinet and
charged it with obstructing his males
| tvs plans. Admiral Won Holman,
| naval secretary of state, who is known
to differ from the emperor on the plans
of the navy, has already handed in his
| resignation.
The fact that Russia and France took
| pains to show their friendliness toward
| Germany upon the occasion of Emper-
or Williams birthday is generally COM
mented on. For the first time in 25
| years the French embassy on the Paris
| ser Platz was splendidly illuminated,
and the Russian ambassador, in pre-
senting Emperor William with the
| czar's congratulations and handing his
majesty beautiful present, conveyed
the cars high qualification that the en-
tente cordiale between Russia and Ger
many had been renewed during the inn
| portant crisis of last year.
The reichstag on March is to cele-
| brate the signing of the preliminary
peace of 1871 by a grand demonstration
to which Prince Bismarck and other
surviving statesmen and generals of
the wartime have been invited
BACTERIA IN RYE.
In the reichstag yesterday attention
was called to the fact that bacteria has
been discovered in imported rye. Herr
Kohler, director of the imperial board
of health, explained that an examina-
ton had been made of German, Amer
lean, Austrian, Roumanian and Turkish
samples of rye, with the result that it
was demonstrated that the American
cereal had the least impurities. He
added that experiment proved that bac-
terra could not resist baking and boil
Ing and that those found in grain are in
| nocuous.
In the lower house of the Prussan
diet today the minister of husbandry.
| Baron Won Hammerstein-Loxten de-
clared that government measures re-
garding the import of cattle and meat
| were exclusively intended to prevent
the danger of infection. He further ex-
| planned that the shortness of the period
| in which arrivals of cattle from north
| ern countries were kept in Quarantine
was due to the fact that cattle diseases
| We're least prevalent there.
incidentally during the next session
| of the Bavarian diet the insane king.
| otto, Is to be declared civilly dead, and
| Prince Luitpold will be chosen king of
| Bavaria.