The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-19

BERLIN. Oct. 1S.-[Copyrighted,
1896. by the United Associated Press
esl.-A great deal of Importance is
being attached to the repeated confer
ences which have taken place between
NJ. Shishkin. privy councillor to the
Russian foreign Office and acting min
lister of foreign affairs, pending the ap-
pointment of a successor to the late
Prince Labonoff- Rostovsky, and NJ. De
White, Russian minister of finance, on
the one hand and Prince Hohenlohe,
German imperial chancellor. and Baron
Marschall Won Bieberstein, minis
ter of foreign affairs. on the other; bur
the balance of opinion appears to be
on the side that the conferences have
concerned the commercial relations be-
tween Germany and Russia rather than
any matters of a political character.
1t is probable, however, that the en-
peror and M. Shishkin, who has been
in Berlin during the last week, had a
talk of a political nature over the visit
OF The car to Queen Victoria.
Prince Hohenlohe invited NJ Shish-
kin to luncheon on Wednesday,. and the
luncheon came oft according to pro-
gramme. The guests included Count
Won Ostend- Sackin, the Russian am
bassador; Baron Marschall Won Bic
bernstein, 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, NJ. Shish-
kin and NJ. Palen, the Russian state
secretary, at the time that the acting
Russian minister of foreign affairs was
expected at the chancellorie, were taxa
ing lunch on the ground at P0tsdam
None of the papers are able to say
what transpired at the conference,
from which the emperor deemed It
advisable to exclude all German Of
ficials. After leaving the palace at
Potsdam. NJ. Shishkin proceeded di-
rectly TO the chancellorie, later con-
vefsed 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 Voront--
schoff-Daschkoff viii be made the sue
ceSsor of Prince Lobanoff- RostovSkte
as Russian minister of foreign affairs,
instead of M Shishkin, the fact re-
mains that Shishkin will be persona
grata here. The German officials with
whom he has come in contact declare
him TO be a keen, yet broad, man, a
diplomat and a hard worker, but mln
without prejudices. and a decided op-
pOrtuniSt in his views. His most for
midable competitor, General Count
Vorontschoff-Da is intensely
French, but NJ Shislin, upon the
subject of Russias relations with
France, is not committed to any alb
solute policy; hence the latter IS pre-
ferred in high German official circles
THE CARS TOUR.
Out of the multitude of the conflict
ing rumors in regard to the cars tour
of Europe, nothing can be cleaned
that has the stamp of reliability vi
emma and Paris are the focuses of SEN
sational stories, but the sum of the
official view here is that relations be-
tween the powers have not been in any
respect changed, and that the ear viii
not move from the position Russia has
hitherto held if his action should risk
disturbing the European equilibrium.
Diplomatic negotiations are still pro-
ceeding as regards the best means OF
dealing with Turkey, and in the mean
time the sultan continues to transact
business at the old stand.
A review of the proceedings of last
week of the sittirgs of the socialist
conference at Schlieben, near Gotha,
leaves the impression that socialism
is losing something of its external
combatative force and increasing in
the elements of international conflict,
though the old formulas of the party
have certainly obtained the usual
marks of approval. A quarter of a
century ago Gotha was the scene of
a contest between the Marxists and
the Lasellists. out of which issued the
programme which has since been held
up as a sort of confession of faith, and
the German creed of socialism became
I;eI, inf
differences of the party began to de-
velop under the rule of that triumvi-
rate of dictators, Singer, Bebel and
Liebknicht which rule was vigorously
disputed in the congress. Herr
Liebnecht complained of the interfer-
ence of the Ruder proletariatS in the
management of the party. and said
that as soon as the academically-
trained bourgeoise adopted socialism
and began to give valuable intellect
ual or material assistance to the
party they were Immediately dubbed
down by others who had risen from
the ranks of the proletariats. In re-
senting this sort of dictation to the
leaders on the part of the proletarian
members of the party. Herr Liegnecht
completely overlooked his old song
over the '-dictation Of the proletariats."
which he once regarded as party
plank, at least to the extent of obtain
ing 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 social
lists with the central bosses in Berlin
Herr Vollmar the south German
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 propaganda.
which is now a burning question in
southern Germany
DEPRECATES THE DIFFERENCES.
In the course of the debates Herr
Iiebnecht found OCCASION to- danracafe