The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
Operators Will Desert Berlin for
Quarters at Amsterdam and
Antwerp.
THE REFORM OF THE MILITARY
Civil and Military Cabinets of EN-.
peror William Are Yet in
Opposition.


have declared their intention to follow up
the blow they dealt against the system of
trafficking in grain futures by proposing
that judgments obtained in other than
German courts arising from disputes grow
ing out of time deals in grain shall not be
enforced in Germany. AS international
execution of judgments are regulated by
international laws and treaties any mere
deliverance of the Reichsag upon this
subject must necessarily remain inopera-
tive. The action of the Reichstag in pro-
hibiting dealings in futures has led num-
Der OF operators to transfer their grain
transactions to Amsterdam and Antwerp.
Some dealers say that the prohibition of
time deals will not affect business in the
least, as they could carry on future deals
iii Chicago or New York independently of
the rules of the Berlin Produce Exchange,
and, though such contracts would not be
legally binding the dealers sav'they can
rely upon the good faith of the contracting
parties. Several leading firms, whose
heads are members of the Produce Ex-
change, are arranging in conjunction with
a number of Hamburg houses to establish
grain-trade banks in Antwerp, Amster-
dam and Brussels. To counteract this
movement Count Won Kanitz, the Agrsrian
leader, has given notice IN the Reichstag
of his intention to ask the Government to
negotiate with foreign powers for the con-
clusion of treaties prohibiting traffic in
grain and produce futures.
The Hanover Courier asserts that the
term of Office of the Imperial Chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe, will end with the close
of the present session of the Reichstag,
but the semi-ofhcial press, on the contrary,
declares that a ministerial crisis has been
averted and that Prince Hohenlohe will
remain in power as long as his health per-
mits.
General Bronsart Won Schel]endorf, I'M
perial Minister of War. has succeeded in
obtaining the Emperor's assent to the
scheme for the reform of the military tri-
bunals and also certain reforms in the
army organization which have long been
opposed by the Emperors military cabi-
net. The Chancellor and the Minister of
War will continue their struggle against
the influence of General Won Hahnke, the
chief of the Emperor's military cabinet,
and DR.. Won Lucanus, chief of the Kaiser's
civil cabinet, and If they should be sue
cessful it ought to lead to a change in the
personnel of both the military and civil
cabinets.
Another Colonial Office scandal is excis-
ing political and official circles. Baron
Won Wissmann, the Governor of German
East Africa, who sailed from Zanzibar last
Thursday on his way home, does not in
tend to return to his post, and as matter
of fact threatens to leave the imperial
service. He has had a quarrel with the au-
thorities of the Colonial Office over the ap-
pointment to his staff of a certain Herr
Won Eltz, who was associated with the re-
cent accusations made against DR.. Carl
Peters, the explorer,
Eugene Wolff, the explorer in an ar
ticle in the Berlin Tageblatt, makes a
sharp attack upon the Colonial Office au-
thorities for their action in sending Lieu
tenant Werther on mission TO East At
rica to explore supposed region of gold
reefs.
in 1893 Herr Wolff directed the attention
of the Colonial Office to Werther's conduct.
abuse of power and exactIons while he was
at the head of a geological research expe-
dition in Africa. The Colonial Office
authorities in respect to this asked Wolff
to keep silent about the matter and
assured him that Werther would never
again be similarly engaged by the Colonial
Office. Herr Wolff now protests against
Werther's second mission and declares
that there is no gold in the regions which
he has gone to explore. The whole
matter, Herr Wolff main tains, is Job.
The blindness of the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg- -Strelitz led him into a dan
gerous predicament last Wednesday while
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denburg. AS he was being led across a
railroad track his foot became caught i n
the rails snd could not be extricated.
The consequence was that he was forced
to remain standing for some time in the
middle of the line, over which there was a
very large traffic, owing to the horse fair,
and the trains had to be brought to stand
still by the signalmen until the Grand
Dukes foot was finally released by its
being forced out of his boot.
The Empress on the occasion of the
birthday of Crown Prince William, who
was IA years old last Wednesday, paid a
visit to the Crown Prince and his brother,
Prince Eitel Frederick, at Ploen, where
they are at school, returning to Berlin
Wednesday evening.
Last evening the Emperor and Empress
gave dinner to the chiefs of the German
Red Cross Society in commemoration of
the twenty fifth anniversary of the founda-
ton of the society and were afterward
present at gala opera performance in
honor OF the occasion. To-day the EN-
peror and Empress started for Frankfort
and will visit the international Flower
Exhibition at Dresden en- route.
Major-General A. Med. McCook, United
States Commissioner TO attend the corona
tion of the Gear of Russia, accompani ed
by his aids, Colonel McCook and Captain
Soriyen, military attaches to the United
States legation at Rome; Miss McCook, J.
B. McCook and wife and Mrs. G. B. Alex
ander of New Yo k will start from Ber lin