Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-02
Popular Subscription May Be Started to
Secure the Necessary Funds.
CABINET MINISTERS NOT ALL AGREED
Chancellor and Some Others Oppose an Ex-
tended Naval Program.
FRENCH ARE BECOMING MORE FRIENDLY
Embassy Illuminated on the Occasion
OF the EmpcrOr's birthday
Found Bacteria I'm Ryc-Amcr-
lean Grain the Purest.


BERLIN, Feb. IA high official Of th
Colonial society informs the Associated pres
correspondent that Emperor William is firml,
determined to carry out the project o
doubling the size of the German navy. Th
official had repeated conversations will
Emperor William during the past thre,
weeks, and he asserts that during the com
ing summer the plan for the reorganization
of the navy will be drawn up. The present
program for slowly enlarglng the navy mus
remain in force fer the next three years
But in the meanwhile the new plan will
be adopted, the preliminary steps will be
taken and the means to execute 1t will b,
secured. His majesty is convinced this /.
absolutely necessary in order to secure t.
Germany permanently her position as g
great power, and especially as rising
colonial power. Hence all the emperor's
energy will be bent to that end.
Something, however, must be done i'm
mediately, and If the present Reichstag re-
fuses to grant large sums for the building
and equipment of fleet of fast cruisers the
nations will be appealed to and an attempt
will be made to raise money for this pur-
pose by popular subscription. Already a
chants, have declared their readiness to sub
scribe 100000 marks to form the nucleus
of the fund Among them are Duke John
Albrecht of Mecklenburg, the duke Of SAKE
Melnngen, Prince Frederick Leopold of
Prussia, Barons Bleichroder, Stumm and
Krupp, and number of Hamburg and
Bremen exporters. 1t is further stated that
Prince Bismarck has expressed to the en-
peror his belief in the necessity of creating
a strong German navy.
CHANCELLOR is OPPOSED.
The fact that Prince Iohenlohe, the i'm
perial chancellor, and some of the other
members of the cabinet do not acquiesce in
these views has, it is asserted, caused his
majesty to seriously consider the advlsa-
bility of making changes in the ministry.
The emperor's intention, however, is not to
hasten this change, but to await favorable
opportunity. Prince Hohenlohes successor,
it is thought in the inner court circles, will
be Count Philip Won Gutenberg, the German
ambassador at Vienna who, with his brother,
Is a great favorte Of his majesty 1t is
significant that the Hamburger Nacr;chten
Prince Bismarck's organ, in an article pub
lished on the emperor's birthday, de-
nounced the cabinet and charged it With
obstructing his majesty's plans. Admiral
Won Holman, naval secretary of state, who is
known to differ from the emperor upon the
plan of navy reorganization, has already
handed in his resignation.
The fact that both Russia and France took
pains to show their frendiness toward
Germany upon the occasion of Emperor
Williams birthday is generally commented
upon. For the first time in twenty y-five years
the French embassy on the Pariser Platz was
splendidly Illuminated, and the Russian
in presenting Emperor William
with the czar's congratulations and handing
his majesty beautiful present, conveyed the
czar's high qualification that the entente
cordiale between Russia and Germany had
been renewed during the important crisis Of
last year.
The Reichstag, on March 2, is to celebrate
the signing of the preliminary peace of 1871
by a grand demonstration, to which Prince
Bismarck and other surviving statesmen and
Of war times have been invited.
SOMETHING GOOD AMERICAN.
In the Reichstag yesterday attention was
called to the fact that bacteria has been dis
covered In imported rye. Herr Koehler,
director of the imperial board of health, ex-
planned that an examination had been made
Of German, American, Russian, Austrian,
Roumanian and Turkish samples of rye, with
the result that 1t was demonstrated that the
American cereal had the least impurities.
He added that experiments proved bacteria
'ould not resist baking and boiling, and that
hose found in grain are innocucus.
In the lower house of the Prussian Diet
oday the minister of husbandry, Baron
iammerste,n-Loxstein, declared that gov
measures regarding the import Of
,attle and meat were exclusively intended
% prevent the danger Of infection. He
urther explained that the shortness of the
,eriod in which arrivals of cattle from
lorthern countries were kept in quarantine
vas due to the fact that diseases were least
PREVALENT there.
Mr.. Dean ID. Mason, vice consul for the
United States at Vienna, has been trans
erred to Frankfort-on- the-main.
The news received here from New York
hat the German war vessels StorchI and
uabla have been ordered to Venezuela is
enied at the foreign Office But an official
4 that department Of the government said
o representative of the Associated press
ierman minister to Venezuela) has re-
eived instructions enabling him TO bring the |
government to terms. President |
respo cannot invoke the aid OF the Monroe |
octrine in this matter. The doctrine may |
erve in frontier quarrels. but 1t does not ex- |
end far enough to shield wilfully re-
alc.trant debtor against the just claims |
an European nation. Germany certainly |
itends, after waiting more than reasonable |
me. to collect the debt due to her citizens, |
nd a naval demonstration may finally have |
, be made In Venezuelan waters. But just |
ow nothing has been ordered"
The relation between Emperor William
nd Prince Luitpold. the regent OF Bavaria.
ave improved lately. and on the imperial |
irthday the regent gave splendid banquet
nd enthusiastically toasted the emperor.
he regent also appointed his majesty chief
the Sixth Bayar.sn regiment. Incident
Ily, during the next session Of the BavarIan
let, the insane king, Otto. Is to be declared