The San Francisco call., 1896-08-24
The Military Faction Is Getting
the Upper Hand in State
Affairs.
Won HoHENLoHE's POSITION.
Induced by the Kaiser to Remain in
Office Until After the Visit
of the Car.
copyright, lsss,by the United Associated pressesl

BERLIN, GERMANY, Aug. 23.-Before
the Reichstag reassembles in November
it is certain that there will be important
changes in the Cabinet, ifindeed an entire
revision of the Ministry does not take
place. Despite the persistent semi-oficial
denials that Prince Hohenlohe, the I'm
perial Chancellor, is on the eve of retire
ment from Office. the Boersen Zsitung
hits the marx squarely in stating that the
Chancellor asked the Emperor for his dis
missal at the time of his recent visit to
the Kaiser at Wilhelmshohe, knowing
that the Hahnke- Lucanus cabal prevailed
against him, but the Emperor induced the
Prince to remain in Office until after the
visit of the Gear and Czarina to Breslau.
The Freisinnige Zeitung (Radicall IN
an article discussing the character of the
future Cabinet, asserts that during the
Emperor's recent trip to the Nordland
Count Bottle zu Eulenburg, master of
ceremonies at the imperial court of Ger
many, accompanied by his cousin, Count
Doenhoff. followed the Kaiser's route
throughout his Majesty's tour and kept
up constant communication with his
L
EN- bassador to Austria, who panied
the Kaiser in the capacity of representa-
tive of the Foreign Office.
The motive of the Freisinnige Eeitung
in making this statement is to depict the
Emperor as the central figure in the in
trigues for change in the Chancellor
ship, and this opinion of the matter has
obtained the ready support of large num-
Der of persons in and out of official life in
view OF all that is now transpiring in Off
lal circles.
The feature of the existing imbroglio Is
that two parties exist within the Govern
ment which are fighting each other des-
perately. First. there is Freiherr Mar
schall Won Bieherstein, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, whose inspired organ, the Cologne
Gazette, declares that it is i'm possible to
consider the Kaiser's Military Cabinet as
Identical with the EN- peror himse and
second. there is the practically governing
General von Hahnke. chief of the Kaiser s
Military Cabinet, who, through the me-
dunn of the Reichsanzeiger. the official
gazette, says that the Military Cabinet
only exercises the Emperors behests.
Freiherr Bieberstein himself seems
destined to be elbowed out of the Cabinet,
and DR.. Lucanus. the chief of the EN-
peror's Civil Cabinet, is mentioned as
having very good chance of being pro-
noted to a higher office. Nobody con-
nected with the semi-official press, nor
any body connected with the Govern
ment, has hitherto supposed that DR..
Lucanus held the inside track, but that
parsonage is now credited with being
fnlly informed OF everything that the
Kaiser intended to do.
Several newspapers which pretended to
be officially inspired were woefully dis
credited over the matter of the retire.
ment of General Bronsart Won Schellen-
dorf from the Ministry of War; Instances
of this are shown in the fact that the Ber-
lin Fageblatt and the Hanover Courier, at
the same hour that the announcement of
General Scheliendorfs resignation was
peared with their alleged inspired an
nou1cements that the Minister of War
and the Kaiser had become reeonciled
and that the Minister would retain his
post.
The Berlin Government continues to
actively support the initiative of Count
Golnchowski, Austrian Minister of For
eign Affairs. toward the solution OF the
difficulties existing in Crete. Since Lord
Salisbury's rejection of the proposal to
establish blockade around Crete, Count
Goluchowski has urged the Porte to grant
snew constitution to the island, the main
features OF which are the appointment of
Christian Governor and the esta blish-
ment of Cream financial autonomy, with
the payment of tribute to the Sultan
under the general guarantee of the Eu-
ropean powers. The foreign Consul at
Canea communicated the terms of Count
Goluchowski's proposal to the Christian
Deputies OF Crete on Friday, and although
the fighting between the Christians and
Turks on the island Is still in progress it
is the opinion in diplomatic circles here
that the Christians will accept the con-
ditlons, which are really tantamount TO
autonomy with an annual payment of
tribute to the Porte based upon the ratio
OF the revenues of the island.
Although the statistics of the current
harvests. are still incomplete, sufficient
numper has been received at the Depart
ment of Agriculture upon which to base
an estimate that there will be medium
crop of wheat and rye in Germany and a
fine crop of both of these grains in Aus
tria- Hungary. The general failure of the
cereal crops in Russia and the prohibition
OF time operations on the bourses in Ger
many are leading to speculative transac-
tions in import orders upon the chance
that demand for the grain thus pur-
cnaseu WILL spring up. Inc agrarian news
papers are advising home producers to
hold on to their grain with the assistance
of bank advances, and the position points
to a reaction with Keen compe tition be-
tween homegrown and imported grains.
Concerning the state of the crops in
Russia the consensus of opinion is that
the harvest there Is an absolute failure.
The crops in the great southern area are
fair, but in the basins of the Volga,
Dneiper and Don the general average is
very bad.
1t is reported that famine exists in the
Kherson districts of Southern Russia, and
that the local authorities are appealing to
the Government for relief, else the people
must die from starvation.
The Schuhmarkt, the organ of the Ger
man shoamakers, calls attention to the
report forwarded to the State Department
OF this Government by +. H. Mason,
United States Consnl-General at Frank
fort-op- Main, and denies that single
American shoestore exists in Berlin. The
paper says that Mr. Mason in making the
statement that such stores did exist was
wrongly informed.
mo market exists in Germany for
American boots and shoes" the paper
adds, for many reasons. German ma
ehlnery tor the manufacture of boots and